"Mastercard is quietly piloting a future where software agents pay each other in real time — and Ripple’s tech may sit at the center of it. In a recent YouTube episode, Dr. Kamilah Stevenson breaks down Mastercard’s new “Agent Pay for Machines” program and links it directly to the XRP Ledger and Ripple’s planned RLUSD stablecoin designed for AI and software agents to authorize and settle payments with no human in the loop. More than 30 partners are said to be involved, including Stripe, Coinbase, OKX and Ripple."