Zug, Switzerland, August 25, 2026 (Chainwire) — Payouts.com and the Casper Association have announced a partnership to bring x402 agent payments into production, providing AI agents with compliant, dollar-denominated payments via the csprUSD stablecoin through the x402 protocol.

AI agents are already doing real work: researching, negotiating, buying data, and calling paid APIs. As agents move beyond recommending actions to carrying them out and transacting, Gartner predicts that they could intermediate more than $15 trillion in B2B spend by 2028. What they still mostly can't do is pay for any of it without a human holding a credit card. The x402 protocol changes that, turning HTTP's long-dormant "402 Payment Required" status code into a native payment step for machines. Introduced by Coinbase in May 2025 as an open standard, x402 has since been picked up across crypto payments tooling, though implementations to date have clustered on EVM chains — which is what makes a WebAssembly-native deployment notable.

Under the partnership, Payouts.com, the financial operating system for humans and AI agents, and the Casper Association, the Swiss non-profit stewarding the Casper Network blockchain, will bring x402 agent payments into production. Payouts.com will support Casper Network — the first WebAssembly-native Layer 1 running x402 on mainnet — as a settlement rail for its AgentWallet and Digital Employees platform. The partnership also lands amid a broader mainstream push into stablecoin settlement, with payment networks and fintechs including Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe adding stablecoin payment capabilities in recent years — a shift that has moved dollar-denominated on-chain payments closer to everyday commercial infrastructure.

Central to the execution is csprUSD, the Casper ecosystem's native stablecoin, designed as the standard settlement asset for agents transacting over Casper's x402 rails: stable, programmable, and enforceable on-chain, so an agent pays for an API call or a dataset in dollars rather than in a volatile asset. Payouts.com provides the governance control layer that governs what an agent may spend, on what, and when; Casper provides csprUSD-denominated settlement with on-chain enforcement, built for regulated and compliance-minded businesses. That division of labor addresses a gap that card-based flows leave open: when software spends money autonomously, enterprises need policy limits and an on-chain record of what each agent paid, to whom, and under which rules — capabilities that conventional corporate cards and borrowed API credentials were never designed to provide.

Implementation is underway, with the integration rolling out in phases over the coming months. Details will follow through both companies' official channels, making the phased milestones the natural checkpoints for when csprUSD settlement goes live across Payouts.com's AgentWallet and Digital Employees workflows.

Leor Ceder, CEO & Co-Founder of Payouts.com, said: "The next wave of payment volume won't come from humans clicking checkout buttons, but from AI agents transacting on their behalf. Partnering with Casper gives our customers a settlement rail that is live today, not a roadmap item."

Michael Steuer, President & CTO of the Casper Association, said: "Every era of the internet needed a payment layer before it could support real commerce. The browser got the credit card form. The smartphone got the in-app purchase. AI agents are the next buyers on the internet, and until now they've been transacting with borrowed human credentials. Payouts.com built the control layer for it; Casper built the settlement layer, with csprUSD as the currency agents actually transact in. Together, that's a complete stack for agent payments."

About Payouts.com

Payouts.com is an AI-native financial operations OS that enables global payouts, AP, AR, tax, compliance, reconciliation, and AI-driven finance workflows globally at scale. With SOC 2 Type II and PCI-DSS Level 1 certifications, Payouts.com handles the full complexity of cross-border disbursements — compliance, KYC, FX, rail selection, and recipient identity. Headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, with commercial operations in the United States, Payouts.com is a global leader in providing financial OS services to a rapidly growing number of platforms and marketplaces, and creator economies.

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About Casper

Casper Network (CSPR) is a Layer 1 Proof-of-Stake blockchain engineered for regulated real-world assets and the machine economy. With deterministic transaction finality, a multi-VM execution layer supporting both WebAssembly and soon EVM smart contracts, and fixed-cost operations enforced at the protocol level, Casper delivers the infrastructure for compliant asset tokenization, frictionless consumer experiences, and autonomous machine-to-machine commerce.

The Casper Manifest — the network's multi-year technical roadmap — advances nine coordinated protocol initiatives spanning developer access, user experience, institutional compliance, privacy, micropayments, and quantum safety. The Casper Association, a non-profit organization based in Zug, Switzerland, oversees protocol development and ecosystem growth.

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