Blockchain infrastructure provider Alchemy is partnering with Visa to launch AgentCard, a new payment method for AI agents designed to let them operate in the real world. Using agents from any provider, the virtual Visa card will let users’ AI agents ”book a vacation, order groceries, or renew a subscription on a consumer’s behalf, without the consumer ever touching a checkout screen,” Alchemy said in a statement. The AgentCard features built-in spending controls, including merchant category restrictions, per-transaction limits, and customizable budgets, all configurable at startup or in real time. “The hardest part of deploying an agent today has nothing to do with intelligence, it is getting the agent set…
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Mastercard Launches Payment System for AI Agents
Agent Pay for Machines supports many payment types, from cards to stablecoins
Mastercard has unveiled a new payment system for AI agents, designed to permit secure and permissioned transactions to be settled across its payment network at machine speed. Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) envisions a future in which businesses create services AI agents can buy and use. Operating at machine speed, these agents will transact continuously with each other at high speed, executing trains of transactions including microtransactions. Mastercard said in a statement that it believes this will “unlock a massive new wave of innovation, business models and economic activity, where any company, from solopreneurs to the largest enterprises, can become a virtual powerhouse.” It gives the example of a florist…
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MoonPay Launches Mastercard for AI Agents
MoonAgents Card will draw on an onchain wallet
Crypto payments firm MoonPay has launched a new virtual debit Mastercard designed for AI agents as well as human users. Using stablecoins and offering merchants payment in fiat, the MoonAgents Card is accepted at any online merchant across 210 countries that accepts Mastercard. The card is issued through Monavate, a regulated global payments platform and principal member of the Mastercard network. The launch comes just a day after digital wallet and payment app startup Oobit announced the launch of a new stablecoin-backed corporate Visa debit card designed for AI agents. Unlike the Oobit card, the MoonAgents Card does not require users to pre-load a custodial balance in stablecoins, but rather…
