Machine Payments Protocol is an open, HTTP-native standard for machine-to-machine and AI-agent payments, co-authored by Tempo Labs and Stripe and launched in March 2026. Machine Payments Protocol's Twitter Score is 79 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #10,201 (top 5%) among 497,973 tracked accounts.
Machine Payments Protocol enables software agents to coordinate payments programmatically using the HTTP 402 Payment Required flow for payment challenges and receipts. The standard is designed to be agnostic to both payment method and currency, with specifications covering a broad range of charge methods including card, EVM, Hedera, Lightning, Near Intents, Solana, Stellar, USDC, and native integrations with Stripe and Tempo Labs.
Machine Payments Protocol has attracted support from major payments infrastructure players. Visa introduced an MPP card specification and SDK and enabled MPP on its Visa Acceptance Platform on the same day the standard launched. Stellar announced MPP support in April 2026, adding stablecoin payment capability with server-sponsored transaction fees. Machine Payments Protocol has accumulated 7,858 followers as of October 2026 and 149 posts, and has been mentioned by 82 accounts a total of 166 times.
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The accounts that follow Machine Payments Protocol include 311 founders, 79 angel investors and 82 influencers, among them Matt Huang, Fred Ehrsam, Udi Wertheimer, David Hoffman, Georgios Konstantopoulos and Tarun Chitra.