Machine Payments Protocol

@mpp

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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Machine Payments Protocol
@mpp
24 Sept
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:
Georgios Konstantopoulos
@gakonst
24 Sept
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
@mpp
2 Oct
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:
Jen
@BackseatVC
1 Oct
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
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Machine Payments Protocol
@mpp
30 Sept
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:
Jen
@BackseatVC
30 Sept
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
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Machine Payments Protocol
@mpp
28 Sept
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:
AI Agents Can Think. Now They Can Pay.
From blog.bytebytego.com
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Machine Payments Protocol
@mpp
14 Aug
Want to learn the history of MPP and why machine payments are making micropayments viable at scale on the internet? This explains it all:
Shoal Research
@Shoalresearch
12 Aug
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
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