TLDR:
- Market: Google’s protocol is interoperable with USD-backed stablecoins and legacy payments, with potential expansion to add additional crypto assets, and is supported by 60+ partners, including Coinbase and the Ethereum Foundation.
- Narrative: Google introduced an open-source AI payments protocol to enable agency-to-agency transactions directly without any middle management on September 16, 2025, with a goal to reinforce its position in the emerging AI infrastructure market.
Google announced a revolutionary open-source AI payments protocol on September 16, 2025, 10:25 PM ICT, to enable tokenized transactions directly between AI agents with no manual oversight. In its initial support, payments will be supported via debit/credit cards and USD-secured stablecoins, with intentions to add support for additional crypto tokens down the road. Google becomes a leading contender in the new AI infrastructure landscape with this development.
The $AI narrative calls out Google’s goal to connect legacy and crypto payments via its Web3 projects—a home-built L1 blockchain as a proprietary solution and a Bitcoin mining collaboration. Google Cloud’s Head of Web3, James Tromans, explained to press reporters, “We’ve built it from scratch to include both legacy payment abilities as well as future ones such as stablecoins.” The protocol is integrated with more than 60 organizations, such as Coinbase, American Express, Salesforce, and Etsy, as well as the Ethereum Foundation, to ensure maximum integration as well as usage, although ETH tokens aren’t currently supported.
Following the Ethereum Foundation‘s recent AI team reveal, announcing a strategic collaboration, Google’s interest in AI experimentation is evident, with the aim for the protocol to simplifying agent-to-agent commerce. It has substantial growth potential to cement Google’s leading position within such an emerging market. Investors would be paying close attention to asset growth and partner adoption with a view to the protocol’s ability to transform AI-driven transactions.
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