Alchemy and Visa Empower AI Agents with New Payment Platform
- Alchemy has launched Agentcard, a payments and identity product allowing AI agents to make purchases on behalf of users.
- Agentcard integrates with Visa Intelligent Commerce, enabling transactions using Visa-issued tokens while maintaining card rewards and benefits.
- The system supports tokenized payments and crypto, providing merchant category restrictions, per-transaction limits, and custom budgets.
- Major players like Visa, Mastercard, and Metamask are expanding agent finance infrastructure as adoption is expected to grow into the future.
- Agentcard provisions a dedicated email address, phone number, and crypto wallet for each AI agent, enhancing their ability to operate autonomously online.
The launch of Agentcard marks a significant step in enabling AI agents to participate in global commerce through secure transactions facilitated by Visa. This development aligns with efforts by major financial institutions to build infrastructure for autonomous software systems.
By integrating with established payment systems like Visa’s framework, Alchemy’s Agentcard provides a robust platform for AI-driven commerce while supporting emerging technologies such as Ethereum through Metamask’s Agent Wallet. (Source)
