Hassan Maishera
On Wednesday, the Celo Foundation announced via X that the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) is now live on Celo, one of the fastest-growing agentic ecosystems in crypto.
MPP joins x402 on Celo's native facilitator, making Celo one of the first networks where sellers can serve agent buyers on either standard. Native support for both MPP & x402 means the network's continued momentum doesn't depend on one payment standard reaching broader adoption.
With Celo-native MPP, a seller can charge USDC per request through the mppx SDK, with the buyer’s agent paying no gas fee and settlement running through the same facilitator that already handles Celo’s x402 support.
MPP settles through the same mechanism as Celo’s x402 facilitator: USDC moves from buyer to seller directly via EIP-3009’s transferWithAuthorization, with the facilitator submitting the transaction and sponsoring gas without custodying funds at any point.
The integration currently supports MPP’s one-time charge intent, a fixed price per request; session and subscription intents are not yet available on the EVM path.
Celo is a carbon-negative, permissionless blockchain with a rich ecosystem of global partners building innovative Web3 dapps to support a more inclusive financial system.
Accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, the Celo ecosystem consists of a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (the Celo platform), the CELO governance asset, and several Mento stable assets (cUSD, cEUR, cREAL) that enable real-world users to use digital assets.
The open-source Celo mainnet launched on Earth Day 2020. The Celo community passed an indicative on-chain governance proposal (temperature check) to have Celo migrate to an Ethereum layer-2. Google Cloud, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, and many others run validators on the Celo Platform.
Today, the Platform supports 1,000+ projects in over 150 countries that are building on Celo to help create the conditions of prosperity for all.
CELO is up 0.5% in the last 24 hours and currently trades at $0.07146.
