Travala, the leading crypto-native travel booking platform backed by Binance, has unveiled the world’s first agentic AI travel protocol that enables autonomous agents to search, book, and pay for more than 2.2 million hotels, including leading chains such as Marriott, Hilton, and IHG, according to a Thursday statement.

The announcement comes amid rapid growth in agentic commerce, a market expected to expand from $8 billion in transactions in 2026 to an estimated $3.5 trillion by 2031.

Travala’s protocol is designed to serve as a standard infrastructure layer for AI-powered travel bookings, enabling agents to navigate global inventory and complete transactions more efficiently than traditional user-driven workflows.

“The launch of the world’s first agentic AI travel protocol marks the death of the checkout button and the beginning of a truly autonomous travel economy,” Travala CEO Juan Otero said. “By combining our global travel inventory with the industry’s first machine-to-machine settlement protocol, we’re effectively hardcoding Travala as the default travel rail for the agentic web.”

Consumers can access the technology through an AI travel concierge that plans and executes trips directly within Claude. The assistant maintains context throughout the booking journey, while ERC-7715 session keys preserve security by ensuring users retain final payment approval.

For developers, the company is offering a 10% cbBTC (Coinbase Wrapped BTC) rebate on bookings completed through AI agents connected to the Travala Travel MCP. The protocol also incorporates ERC-8004, creating a verifiable reputation framework that links agent performance to real-world outcomes.

The Travala Travel MCP is built on Base and uses the x402 protocol to facilitate instant stablecoin payments for APIs, applications, and AI agents. According to the team, the system eliminates conventional checkout friction through gasless USDC payments, near-instant settlement, and transaction costs of approximately one cent per booking.

“Base is built to be the home of the onchain economy, and Travala’s Travel MCP is exactly what that looks like in practice, devs using our infrastructure to power machine-to-machine commerce that’s seamless, autonomous, and global. We’re thrilled to see Travala lead the charge on real-world use cases for agentic payments,” Sam Frankel, Head of Partnerships at Base, commented on the launch.

Future updates will introduce additional travel products, including flights, and expand the utility of the AVA token within the ecosystem, Travala stated.