AI Payment Undercover Battle: Google Teams Up with 60 Allies, Stripe Builds Its Own Path
AI has become the "cash register," with ChatGPT, Google, and Microsoft launching shopping checkout features one after another. The core of this AI payment standard competition is essentially a fight over tolls on trillion-dollar transactions. Google has teamed up with 60 giants to form an alliance, while Stripe has acquired Bridge and launched the Tempo chain, handling everything from token issuance to chain building independently.
(Background recap: PayPal invests 200 million dollars to enter AI proxy shopping, but crypto payments remain "outsiders")
(Additional background: Coinbase launches Agentic Wallets: enabling AI agents to autonomously trade, pay, and earn, integrated with the x402 protocol)
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