Agents Move Into Trading and Payments as XRPL Adopts Mastercard's Intent Standard

No-code trading bots, agent-run crypto positions, and the XRP Ledger's integration of Mastercard's Verifiable Intent standard point to autonomous agents gaining direct control over money.

A cluster of developments this weekend shows agents graduating from advisors to actors in financial markets. The XRP Ledger has integrated Mastercard's Verifiable Intent standard for AI agent payments, as flagged by @36Crypto2 — infrastructure specifically designed to let autonomous agents authorize and execute transactions with verifiable authority. That's a foundational layer: agents can't safely spend money until there's a standard for proving they were authorized to.

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