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Agent Pay for Machines on Coinbase: pilot

In short

Agent Pay for Machines on Coinbase reads pilot as of 4 Nov 2026. The note: Completed end-to-end AP4M pilot before Early Access opened. Agent Pay for Machines is live or pilot in 1 of 27 columns; Coinbase has 2 of 12 protocols live or pilot. The source is mastercard.com.

The reading

Status
pilot. Limited pilot, beta, early access, waitlist or select merchants.
Protocol
Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), Mastercard
Processor
Coinbase Developer Platform (x402), Coinbase Global, Inc.
Note
Completed end-to-end AP4M pilot before Early Access opened
Source
mastercard.com, read 4 Nov 2026

Agent Pay for Machines in other columns

Columns not listed read no statement found on 4 Nov 2026; the Agent Pay for Machines page lists them with sources.

Coinbase for other protocols

See the Coinbase page and the full matrix.

How Agent Pay for Machines reads for merchants

Rubric rowReading
Merchant of recordSeller of the service
Dispute rulesNot published
CostNot published

The full rubric is on the Agent Pay for Machines page.

Sources

  1. mastercard.com/us/en/news-and-trends/press/2026/october/Mastercard-Agent-Pay-for-Machines-in-action.html, read 4 Nov 2026
  2. ap4m.build/info, read 4 Nov 2026
  3. docs.cdp.coinbase.com/x402/welcome, read 4 Nov 2026

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