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Ixopay Helps Merchants Manage AI-Driven Commerce

Agentic protocols that support tokenized payments from autonomous AI-driven bots are available to merchant acquirers and payment service providers from Google, Stripe (with OpenAI), PayPal and Coinbase (x402). Those protocols work within agentic commerce initiatives from Visa (Intelligent Commerce) and Mastercard (Agent Pay), which have their own protocols. Currently, there is no universal standard for tokenizing AI transactions. All of the companies mentioned above use proprietary technology. In these early days of AI-driven ecommerce, merchants or their payment service providers will n...

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