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Mastercard contributed through its partnership with Google in agent artificial intelligence standards
Open standards are important for information technology, enterprise business, and the world in general. Publishing public utility materials is important to enable all forms. This alliance launched technology for the FIDO alliance. Contributions come in two forms:
The Google Agent Payment Protocol (AP2) was developed and released in September 2025. Google continued releasing it this week to enhance technology and promote industry-wide innovation. Innovation in AP2 helps it remain an open platform and lead the community from now on.
Mastercard’s Verification Intent Framework was developed in collaboration with Google as a standards-based trust framework for agent commerce. Creating a verifiable intent creates an tamper-resistant record of what the user authorized when the AI agent acts on their behalf, establishing a shared source of truth across the ecosystem.
Innovation is essential to build trust in using agent AI across simple tasks to very large financial transactions. Security is also important to ensure users and AI agents can trust requests and handle delegated tasks confidently.
Visa joins WeFi
WeFi is a high-rated stablecoin infrastructure company. Their new collective partnership relates to building banking services and on-chain banks. So let’s slow down and understand all the terms here. Since I was unfamiliar with on-chain banking, I had to research it, and as you might expect, it’s like this: Think of it as an native financial system on the blockchain providing basic banking services including custody, payments, lending, and asset management, all across decentralized finance networks instead of centralized institutions. In this partnership, Visa provides that latest infrastructure for a 1/2 mile on-chain banking. Here’s another new term: IBAN (International Bank Account Number), already used in 97 countries worldwide. It defines an agreed-upon system for identifying bank accounts across national borders to facilitate communication and cross-border transactions while reducing the risk of copy errors.
Blockchain is transforming old financial networks and systems into artifacts. Blockchain opens up all kinds of new applications for transactions and operations.
This partnership is designed to impact markets such as:
Asia
Europe
And Latin America initially.
If this partnership will affect the United States, they will need to adapt their offerings so that IBAN becomes the standard. Relying on routing numbers and U.S. account numbers to gather a similar type of American customer information.
Summary
Visa’s global network depth is a natural extension of on-chain banks and auxiliary product offerings. Meanwhile, Mastercard and Google ensure innovation and security at the industry level for everyone (humans and AI agents) early, not later. As more and more AI agent transactions are created, users can rest assured that their transactions are secure. Isn’t this the level of “trust” users have today when they touch their credit cards at checkout, trust?
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