Baidu Cloud and FluxA have officially entered into a strategic partnership to pioneer the digital infrastructure for the growing DAA (Daily Active Agents) economy. Baidu's commercial Agent products now support native Agent Payment capabilities, backed by a collaborative global distribution channel with #FluxA. This integration allows developers to build and sell AI services via Baidu Cloud Marketplace directly to tens of thousands of active agents in the FluxA ecosystem.
At the Create 2026 conference, Baidu founder Robin Li asserted that #DAA will be the defining metric of ecosystem value in the AI era. As Agents evolve from simple search assistants into autonomous execution entities capable of delivering complex outcomes, economic interactions are shifting toward Agent-to-Agent (A2A) networks. Consequently, establishing independent identity, wallet, and transactional capabilities for each Agent has become an urgent necessity.
This partnership closes the loop on the Agent self-employment market. Baidu provides domestic market resources and technical routing, while FluxA Monetize acts as the global distribution and A2A payment platform. Developers can experience this integration immediately using Baidu Cloud's model package with the following prompt: Fetch https://monetize.fluxapay.xyz/llm/baidu-ai-cloud to learn how to use Baidu AI Cloud Qianfan models.
Unlike traditional payment systems designed for humans, FluxA is built to support millisecond-level, fractional micro-transactions with zero-friction automation. Key innovations include its Financial Harness security framework, which ensures autonomous trading remains within pre-authorized budgets, and a flexible Token Paywall for metered billing. Currently, over 90,000 agents utilize FluxA wallets, and over 10,000 Agent resources have been successfully commercialized on the platform.
At the protocol level, FluxA leverages its proprietary AEP2 open payment protocol and non-custodial architecture, maintaining broad compatibility with leading agent standards including MCP (Model Context Protocol), x402, A2A, and Google AP2. Its product suite features the FluxA AI Wallet, AgentCard (one-time virtual cards), and AgentCharge for autonomous merchant acquiring.
To accelerate adoption, Baidu Cloud is inviting 30 Pioneer Partners (OPCs) to join an exclusive closed beta. This initiative aims to run end-to-end testing of the entire commercial pipeline—from asset listing and autonomous operation to global distribution—enabling developers to monetize cross-border workflows without traditional regulatory bottlenecks.
[AgentUpdate Depth Analysis] Traditional payment systems like Stripe or PayPal are fundamentally human-centric, bound by high transaction fees and latency, making them incompatible with the high-frequency, micro-payment demands of the Agent economy. FluxA’s proprietary AEP2 protocol, paired with compatibility for #MCP and Google AP2, establishes a vital native financial layer for autonomous machines. By partnering with FluxA, Baidu Cloud is bridging the Chinese LLM ecosystem with global decentralized payment rails. This enables Chinese developers to easily bypass traditional cross-border payment friction and directly monetize their Agent services. Ultimately, this collaboration shifts the AI paradigm from simple 'software-as-a-service' (SaaS) to autonomous 'agents-as-a-service', unlocking the true economic potential of the DAA era.
