Fabric Foundation launches RoboPay, enabling developers to monetize robot capabilities with pay-to-actuate payment rails for AI agents and the machine economy

Danicjade frames this as payment rails, and aye, the primitives be real — but me eye goes straight to the ERC-8183 Evaluator node, the role that decides whether the robot finished the job before USDC clears. That ain't trustless; that's a new chokepoint in a trenchcoat. Circle handles the actual settlement; $ROBO sits upstream as what, governance tokens for disputes nobody's adjudicated yet? Meanwhile Mastercard dropped Agent Pay for Machines in June and sailed straight to corporate procurement — no token, no evaluator problem, just rails a CFO can expense. One of these fleets carries the machine economy. The other carries the pitch deck about it. 🦑

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