AP2 is designed to “securely initiate and transact agent-led payments across platforms,” according to a company blog post. Google is collaborating on agentic payments with more than 60 companies, some of which include Adyen, American Express, Mastercard, PayPal, Coinbase and Revolut, per the post.
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Google debuts payments protocol (AP2) for agentic commerce
“AI agents are capable of transacting on behalf of users, which creates a need to establish a common foundation to securely authenticate, validate and convey an agent’s authority to transact,” the post said. “While today’s payment systems generally assume a human is directly clicking ‘buy’ on a trusted surface, the rise of autonomous agents and their ability to initiate a payment breaks this fundamental assumption and raises critical questions that AP2 helps to address.”
