The European Central Bank is looking for outside organizations to study how AI agents could be used in digital euro payments. Cointelegraph reported this on Sep 29, 2026. The ECB wants fintechs, payment companies and other organizations to take part.
The work covers two areas: payments made by AI agents, and interactions where one machine deals directly with another. The article says this is separate from a digital euro pilot that the ECB is preparing for 2027.
The report does not name any firms that have been chosen. It does not give a budget or a timeline for the AI agent work. It also does not say how the two projects will be connected, if at all. Those points are not yet known.
For someone already holding a perpetual position on Bitget, Bybit, MEXC or OKX, this changes nothing directly. The story says nothing about funding rates, trading fees or liquidity on any of these exchanges. It describes a central bank asking firms to explore a payment idea, and none of that affects what a perp position costs today.
Source: cointelegraph — ECB puts AI agent payments on the digital euro drawing board