Alchemy integrated its AgentCard identity and payments platform with Mastercard Agent Pay, giving each AI agent a unique email address, phone number, stablecoin wallet, and tokenized payment credentia…
Visa reported completing "hundreds" of secure, agent-initiated transactions in a closed beta in December 2025, but projects "millions" of consumers will use AI agents to complete purchases by the 2026…
Alchemy announced on September 17 that it added Mastercard Agent Pay support to AgentCard, its identity and payments product for AI agents, provisioning agents with one-time-use tokenized Mastercard c…
Global card transactions reached 776 billion in 2024 and are projected to hit 1.1 trillion by 2029, while account-to-account (A2A) transaction volumes are forecast to jump from 60 billion in 2024 to o…
Agentic commerce remains in the early adopter phase because AI agents cannot hold bank accounts or credit cards, requiring human accountability for every transaction, and most consumers and merchants …