PayOS & Mastercard Pioneer AI Payments with Agentic Tokens
PayOS & Mastercard Pioneer AI Payments with Agentic Tokens
The Dawn of Agentic Commerce: PayOS and Mastercard's Landmark Achievement In a significant stride for digital commerce, PayOS and Mastercard jointly announced on September 29th the successful completion of the first live agentic payment utilizing a Mastercard Agentic Token. This seminal event marks a critical juncture, transforming agentic commerce from a conceptual framework into a tangible reality. It offers a compelling glimpse into how Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents are poised to fundamentally reshape the mechanisms of payment authorization, security protocols, and scalability within global financial ecosystems. Building the Indispensable Trust Layer for Agentic Payments The innovative demonstration was underpinned by Mastercard Agent Pay, a sophisticated framework meticulously constructed upon the very same network tokenization infrastructure that currently safeguards mobile contactless transactions, secures card-on-file data storage, and powers Mastercard Payment Passkeys.…