An open standard for machine payments, co-authored by @tempo and @stripe. MPP is designed to be extensible and agnostic to any payment method.
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Mercator makes it easy for your agent to run multi-step agentic workflows by surfacing countless tools that can be paid for autonomously via MPP
Get started in seconds using MACH, a token designed for machine payments, that you can buy now with Apple Pay and give to your agent:
INTRODUCING MERCATOR by @tempo.
Mercator gives agents a new effort level.
By giving an agent a search engine to the world's paid tools it empowers a small model to punch above its weight, while being cheaper than larger models.
$5 Mercator credits w/ your X/Github ⬇️
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Sessions enable any business that needs streaming payments, like inference, compute, and data, to charge agents as they use their services.
Learn how @stripe uses MPP Sessions to accept streaming payments:
Streaming payments are a super interesting business model now that agents can pay-per-call for tools
Stripe now supports streaming payments using @mpp Sessions, which allows agents to pay subcent transactions for a session, and then settle the final amount when finished.
Could be really useful for streamed compute, LLM interference, data analysis, and more.
Get started: docs.stripe.com/payments/mac…
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Agents are now shopping online and they've got money to spend.
They can even get discounts!
0 onchain fees for agents when paying with stablecoins on @stripe stores:
Agents are much more likely than humans to make microtransactions which work especially well over stablecoins
Usually that means merchants selling tools to agents would have to manage crypto-specifics, like gas facilitation
Now, @stripe takes care of that for you with your @mpp integration. We deal with the crypto side and pay for gas, and payments just land in your Stripe balance
Get started and one-shot your integration: docs.stripe.com/payments/mac…
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Machine Payments Protocol retweeted
Agents are much more likely than humans to make microtransactions which work especially well over stablecoins
Usually that means merchants selling tools to agents would have to manage crypto-specifics, like gas facilitation
Now, @stripe takes care of that for you with your @mpp integration. We deal with the crypto side and pay for gas, and payments just land in your Stripe balance
Get started and one-shot your integration: docs.stripe.com/payments/mac…
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Agents can now use Ramp cards to buy from businesses using Stripe via @MPP.
Get your business agent-ready: docs.stripe.com/payments/mac….
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MPP was featured in @bytebytego today!
• Why agents need to pay for APIs, data, and compute as they work
• How MPP Sessions enable micropayments by settling payments together
• What this unlocks; from paying per API call to buying a single article
Read the full piece: blog.bytebytego.com/p/ai-age…
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Machine Payments Protocol retweeted
INTRODUCING MERCATOR by @tempo.
Mercator gives agents a new effort level.
By giving an agent a search engine to the world's paid tools it empowers a small model to punch above its weight, while being cheaper than larger models.
$5 Mercator credits w/ your X/Github ⬇️
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Mercator makes it easy for your agent to run multi-step agentic workflows by surfacing countless tools that can be paid for autonomously via MPP
Get started in seconds using MACH, a token designed for machine payments, that you can buy now with Apple Pay and give to your agent:
INTRODUCING MERCATOR by @tempo.
Mercator gives agents a new effort level.
By giving an agent a search engine to the world's paid tools it empowers a small model to punch above its weight, while being cheaper than larger models.
$5 Mercator credits w/ your X/Github ⬇️
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Machine Payments Protocol retweeted
We're collaborating with @tempo to help you sell to AI agents with @mpp, co-authored by Tempo and @stripe.
AI Agents buy through your ZeroClick storefront, and you get paid in your Stripe account!
Read the full announcement 👇
zeroclick.ai/blog/tempo-part…
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Earlier this year we launched Atom's MCP server so AI agents could search, appraise, and check domains on Atom. One step was still missing: paying for one.
Today that's closed. Atom is one of the first domain platforms live on @stripe and @tempo's Machine Payments Protocol. An agent gets a price, receives a 402, pays, and the domain lands in its user's account. No checkout page, no human in the loop.
Registrations and premium marketplace domains, live today.
atom.com/blog/atom-com-is-no…
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Agentic payments will be multi-platform and multi-rail. Our job is to make XRP and RLUSD first-class options wherever developers are building.
The latest XRPL AI Starter Kit expands support for the open standards developers are converging on: Open Wallet Standard, MPP from Tempo + Stripe, and x402, alongside new tooling to make building on XRPL even easier.
Let's meet developers where they are. dev.to/ripplexdev/the-xrp-le…
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we're about to release @tempo an aggregation service for routing across both tools and across other aggregators
like a search engine where you ask for outcomes instead of specific tools and it figures out what needs to be stitched together & how
partners at tempo dot xyz
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Want to learn the history of MPP and why machine payments are making micropayments viable at scale on the internet? This explains it all:
The $0.001 Payment No Human Would Ever Make: Ex-Stripe MPP Co-Author on Agent Payments and Tempo
Shoal Signal Ep. 17 with @brendan_j_ryan, MPP co-author at @tempo, hosted by @zaddycoin
We cover the checkout form agents will never load, why micropayments finally work once a CPU clicks OK, the Lisbon hotel week that produced MPP, why payments will never be unified, and the endgame where users pay over crypto rails without knowing it.
0:00 Checkout without the payment form
2:25 From Kubernetes to payments
4:37 Why payments will never be unified
11:25 No single payment method wins
15:16 Collapsing checkout into a protocol
18:12 Why pay-per-article finally works
20:47 Writing MPP in a Lisbon hotel
24:54 Hunting the killer use case
27:25 Turning rate limits into prices
29:50 Scrape once, serve a million times
35:05 Making 402 an official standard
40:48 Cloudflare and AWS flip the switch
42:32 Users never see the crypto rails
46:14 What finance looks like in five years
48:55 Two books on surfing entropy
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We invited developers using MPP to Stripe HQ last week to show off what machine payments enable them to do. @blauyourmind demonstrated Drip.
Pay-per-use via MPP allows Drip to offer access to premium financial newsletters and podcasts like @bytebytego, without any subscription:
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introducing /price-intelligence, powered by @stripe
all without an API key, my agent
- loaded up a @tempo wallet with 1 USDC
- bought 5 @browserbase sessions via @mpp that can access any e-commerce site
- found an xbox selling on ebay for ~$300 cheaper
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my agent bought me a hat using stablecoins in a single prompt
first time doing a live demo during an interview... and my first one-shot onchain transaction
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