Amazon Teams With Coinbase and Stripe to Let AI Agents Pay With Stablecoins
In briefAmazon Web Services launched AgentCore Payments with Coinbase and Stripe for AI agent transactions.The system uses Coinbases x402 protocol and USDC stablecoin payments on Base and Solana.Amazon says future AI agents could autonomously buy services, data, flights, and hotel bookings. Amazon Web Services is bringing crypto payments into enterprise AI software as tech companies race to build autonomous AI agents capable of completing tasks and making transactions online. On Thursday, AWS announced Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, a system developed with Coinbase and Stripe that allows AI agents to use stablecoins to automatically pay for APIs, data feeds, web content, and other online services during task execution. The launch brings stablecoin-based micropayments directly into AWSs AI agent platform, aiming to eliminate the need for developers to build custom billing systems for each service integration. According to Preethi CN, director of AgentCore, the platform uses Coinbases x402 protocol, an open standard based on the HTTP 402 “Payment Required” response code, along with Coinbase wallet infrastructure and Stripe-owned Privy wallet technology. “AgentCore is designed to work with any framework and any protocol. We‘ve carried that same flexibility into Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments. Developers don’t have to track the evolving payment protocol landscape or lock into a