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Europe is moving closer to testing how AI agents could interact with digital money.

The European Central Bank has opened applications for its Digital Euro Innovation Platform, with experiments focused on AI-driven payments and machine-to-machine (M2M) transactions.

The testing is planned for January through June 2027 and could include automated payments between AI agents, micropayments, and transactions carried out between connected devices and software systems.

There’s also a crypto angle worth watching. The source highlights $LINK and $QNT as interoperability projects that could be relevant to this broader trend. However, those connections are part of the article’s interpretation and not an ECB confirmation or endorsement.

For now, this remains an experimental phase. Any eventual deployment of the digital euro will depend on EU legislation.

The bigger question is whether autonomous AI payments eventually become a normal part of digital finance.

Could AI agents become the next users of digital money?

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