For agentic technology to scale, it needs to work for everyone. That’s why over the last few months, we’ve shared new open commerce and payments standards to serve as the building blocks for the future of AI shopping. Now, to help further scale this technology and promote industry-wide innovation, we’re donating the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) to the FIDO Alliance, a renowned industry association focused on creating open standards. Transitioning ownership to the FIDO Alliance ensures AP2 remains platform-agnostic and community-led, while accelerating adoption of secure agentic payments.
Today on GitHub, we’re also releasing AP2 v.0.2, which introduces critical updates for autonomous transactions, including “Human Not Present” payments, which will allow agents to securely execute payments autonomously — like securing and purchasing limited-run tickets the moment they’re on sale — based on pre-authorized user instructions.
AP2 is also helping to drive industry standards like Verifiable Intent, a new, AP2-compatible standard co-developed with Mastercard and also being donated to FIDO, that creates a tamper-proof log of user-authorized agent actions to ensure accountability.
With growing support from leaders across the industry, AP2 establishes the open, collaborative foundation for agents to transact safely across any platform.
