Google Donates Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to FIDO Alliance — Mastercard Co-Sponsors Agentic Commerce Standard
One of the messiest unsolved problems in agentic AI just got a credible industry push toward a real standard: how should AI agents authenticate themselves before making financial transactions? Today, Google donated its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to the FIDO Alliance — the organization behind FIDO2 and WebAuthn, the standards that already underpin passwordless authentication for billions of users. Simultaneously, Mastercard donated its complementary Verifiable Intent framework. The message from the industry’s heavyweights is clear: agentic commerce needs open standards, and it needs them before the market fragments. ...