{"id":47840,"date":"2025-09-16T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=47840"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:47:07","slug":"google-teams-up-with-coinbase-to-bring-stablecoin-payments-to-ai-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=47840","title":{"rendered":"Google Teams Up With Coinbase to Bring Stablecoin Payments to AI Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Google is taking a step toward merging artificial intelligence (AI) and digital money, rolling out a new open-source protocol that lets AI applications send and receive payments, which includes support for stablecoins, digital tokens pegged to fiat currencies such as the U.S. dollar, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/blog\/products\/ai-machine-learning\/announcing-agents-to-payments-ap2-protocol\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To incorporate stablecoin rails, Google teamed up with U.S.-based crypto exchange Coinbase, which has been developing its own AI-integrated payments infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>The company also worked with the Ethereum Foundation and coordinated with more than 60 other organizations, including Salesforce, American Express, and Etsy, to cover traditional finance use cases.<\/p>\n<p>The move builds on Google\u2019s earlier work to <a href=\"https:\/\/codelabs.developers.google.com\/devsite\/codelabs\/building-ai-agents-vertexai#0\">establish a standard for \u201cAI agents.\u201d<\/a> These digital agents may eventually handle complex tasks, such as negotiating mortgages or shopping for clothes, without direct human input.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Google <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.googleblog.com\/en\/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability\/\">rolled out a protoco<\/a>l to standardize agent-to-agent communication. The latest update extends that framework into financial transactions, aiming to ensure payments are secure, interoperable, and executed with the human user\u2019s intent in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s experiment demonstrates a growing trend of activity across the stablecoin market. USDC-issuer Circle&#8217;s oversubscribed IPO indicated investor appetite earlier this year, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/opinion\/2025\/06\/23\/stablecoins-are-a-monetary-revolution-in-the-making\">some suggesting<\/a> that stablecoins are a &#8220;monetary revolution in the making.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Data from <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/stablecoins\">DefiLlama<\/a> shows $289 billion worth of stablecoins are in circulation, a jump from $205 billion at the turn of the year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is taking a step toward merging artificial intelligence (AI) and digital money, rolling out a new open-source protocol that lets AI applications send and receive payments, which includes support for stablecoins, digital tokens pegged to fiat currencies such as the U.S. dollar, according to a press release. To incorporate stablecoin rails, Google teamed up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-47840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}