Catena Supports Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines
Catena is one of the initial participants in Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines, a new service for permissioned, machine-speed agent payments. Catena adds the control plane: identity, policy, approvals, spending limits, and auditability wherever agents move money.
Today Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines, a new service for payments that are permissioned, orchestrated, and settled at machine speed across its global network. AI agents acting on behalf of people and businesses are beginning to buy compute, data, API access, and services continuously, often turning one human instruction into a chain of automated transactions across providers. Agent Pay for Machines gives those transactions credentials, programmatically enforced spending limits, and guaranteed settlement across payment types, from cards to stablecoins. We’re glad to be among the initial participants supporting the launch.
Our view is that payment rails alone are not enough. AI agents moving money need real controls: identity, policy, approvals, spending limits, counterparty rules, and auditability. That is why we are building a banking and governance platform that enforces those controls across every meaningful rail, protocol, and on-chain contract. For the people and businesses who deploy agents, Catena is a single control plane that applies one consistent set of policies wherever money moves.
The future of agentic commerce will not run on one network or one rail, and that diversity is healthy. With Catena, agents can move money safely over multiple rails, currencies, and networks as needed, with clear constraints and audit trails. As part of the Agent Pay for Machines ecosystem, we’ll help validate priority use cases, support common rules, and keep doing what we do wherever agents transact: make agentic payments safer, more accountable, and more practical for customers.
If your agents are starting to move money, apply for Catena access at app.catena.com.
