AI agents are spending XRP — and Mastercard is making sure every single transaction was approved by a human first. 🤖🔐💸
Mastercard's Verifiable Intent framework is now baked directly into XRP Ledger payments through t54.ai's XRPL x402 Facilitator. Every payment in XRP or RLUSD carries a cryptographic proof of who authorised it, under what limits, and for what purpose — before it ever settles on-chain.
Agent Pay for Machines launched June 10, 2026. The XRP Ledger has already processed over 1.4 million agentic payments. AI agents are transacting at ~$0.0002 per transaction. And Ripple sits at the Premier Member level of the x402 Foundation alongside Visa, Mastercard, Google, AWS, and 35+ other major organisations.
This isn't speculation. This is the new global financial system being built right now.