Google Cloud has introduced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), a new framework designed to facilitate seamless transactions between AI applications and stablecoins, according to Google’s blog.
The company has announced the new product as a continuation of several existing integrations of AI-related protocols, including the A2A (Agent-to-Agent) protocol released earlier this year, as well as Coinbase’s x402 protocol.
The core features of this focuses fully on the future of agentic commerce – a world where AI agents are conducting payment requests on behalf of human users using stablecoins and wallets onchain.
Notably, the protocol splits the use-case between delegated and non-delegated tasks, allowing for wide range of tasks to be completed with and without the presence of a human.
Agents are expected to drive the next wave of ‘smarter shopping’, allowing for greater personalization and multi-tasking.
CTO of BVNK Donald Jackson expressed his delight with the news:
Stablecoins provide an obvious solution to the scaling challenges agentic systems are already facing with legacy financial infrastructure. We at BVNK were extremely excited to hear that Google has been working on solving this problem and couldn’t wait to contribute.
Many of the world’s top companies are contributing to this, including both those operating within the confines of Web2 and Web3, such as Trip.()com, Revolut, PayPal, MetaMask, Checkout(.)com, Adobe, PwC, and others.
