Powering AI-Native Commerce with AEON

Morph is excited to welcome AEON to the Morph Payment Accelerator, a collaboration that brings AI-powered payment execution to Morph’s payment-optimized settlement layer.

AEON is a payment and settlement layer built for AI-driven autonomous transactions. Its integration with Morph unlocks programmable payment flows and intelligent commerce capabilities at global scale.

AEON enables autonomous transactions through AI agents with support for QR, NFC, online, and mobile payment channels. It also handles cross-chain swaps and implements the x402 protocol for verifiable AI payments across EVM, Solana, and TON networks, covering a broad range of payment environments and execution contexts.

Introducing the Morph Payment Accelerator

Earlier this year, Morph launched the $150 million Morph Payment Accelerator, powered by the BGB ecosystem, to accelerate real-world adoption of onchain payments.

Unlike traditional grant programs, the Payment Accelerator is fully performance-based. Incentives are distributed according to verified stablecoin payment volume settled on Morph mainnet, meaning rewards scale directly with actual usage. The program is open to payment companies, financial institutions, and infrastructure providers building tangible payment products.

Key verticals include crypto cards and digital issuing, cross-border remittance platforms, and merchant payment gateways. Participants benefit from near-instant settlement, reduced operating costs, and programmable onchain functionality purpose-built for high-volume payment flows.

Enabling AI-Powered Commerce Onchain

The rise of stablecoin settlement infrastructure and the emergence of AI-driven autonomous commerce are reshaping global payments, and this partnership sits at the intersection of both.

AEON enables programmable, AI-driven transactions that operate across chains and payment environments. Routing these through Morph’s settlement layer, with sub-second finality and zero-fee stablecoin transfers, creates the high-frequency, low-cost transaction environment AI agent-driven commerce requires.

Beyond consumer-facing use cases, the partnership also supports B2B applications including merchant treasury management, cross-border FX settlement, and programmable vendor payments, all using USDC as the settlement asset on Morph.

Scaling AI-Native Payment Volume

As AI agents become active participants in the global economy, the infrastructure underpinning their transactions matters. Morph’s payment settlement layer and AEON’s AI-native execution framework are well positioned to support what comes next.

We look forward to sharing updates as AI-powered payment volume grows onchain.

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