Google Announced Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)

2025-09-16

Google has announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open protocol that builds on A2A (Agent to Agent Protocol). AP2 was developed by Google with leading payments and technology companies to securely enable payment transactions between AI agents.

Key features include:

Open standard built on A2A protocol
Supports secure payments between AI agents
Deep integration with Google Cloud ecosystem
Advances the commercialization of the agent economy

This marks an important step in AI agents moving from experimentation to actual commercial applications, providing critical infrastructure support for the agent economy.

Read the full article at https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-agents-to-payments-ap2-protocol