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Agent payments will soon overtake human payments on the internet. The Machine Payments Protocol (Machine Payments Protocol) is a new open standard co-authored by Stripe and Tempo. It’s designed to be extensible and payment-method agnostic, already supporting stablecoins, cards, and more.

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The current financial system was built for humans, not agents. The Machine Payments Protocol (Machine Payments Protocol) provides a shared standard for agents to pay for services. From the @Stripe Sessions stage:
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