{"slug": "alchemy-unveils-visa-powered-virtual-payment-card-for-ai-agents", "title": "Alchemy unveils Visa-powered virtual payment card for AI agents", "summary": "Alchemy launched AgentCard, a virtual payment product enabling AI agents to autonomously issue and use one-time Visa cards for online transactions. The product, announced on March 13, 2026, is in private beta and supports spending limits and real-time tracking, with crypto support planned. This marks a step toward agentic commerce, following Visa's Intelligent Commerce framework and Mastercard's Agent Pay initiative.", "body_md": "# Alchemy unveils Visa-powered virtual payment card for AI agents\n\nAgentCard lets autonomous AI agents issue one-time Visa cards for online purchases, with crypto support on the roadmap\n\nYour AI assistant can now swipe a credit card. Well, virtually.\n\nAlchemy, the web3 development platform best known for powering blockchain infrastructure, has launched AgentCard, a virtual payment product that lets AI agents autonomously issue and use Visa cards for online transactions. The product defaults to Visa-issued token credentials but is designed to support crypto and agent-native payment protocols as they become available.\n\n## How AgentCard actually works\n\nAgentCard enables AI agents to generate one-time or prepaid Visa virtual cards on the fly. Each card comes with enforceable hard spending limits and real-time transaction tracking, which means developers can set guardrails on how much an agent can spend.\n\nAlchemy has identified several primary use cases: paying for API calls and AI inference, ordering food delivery through platforms like DoorDash and Uber Eats, executing marketing expenditures, and trading around the clock on prediction markets like Polymarket.\n\nThe product went public on March 13, 2026, though it remains in private beta with early access for select developers.\n\n## The bigger picture: agentic commerce is having a moment\n\nVisa launched its Intelligent Commerce framework in 2025, specifically aimed at enabling AI-tokenized credentials. Mastercard has developed its own Agent Pay initiative.\n\nAgentCard currently runs on traditional Visa rails. Alchemy has been explicit that crypto asset support and agent-native payment protocols are coming.\n\nEndorsements from the Solana and Base ecosystems, along with Polymarket, suggest that the crypto-native audience is the core constituency here.\n\nAlchemy also launched AgentPay in April 2026, a companion product designed to enable cross-protocol interoperability among different AI payment systems.\n\n**Disclosure:** This article was edited by Editorial Team. For more information on how we create and review content, see our\n\n[Editorial Policy](https://cryptobriefing.com/editorial-policy/).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alchemy-unveils-visa-powered-virtual-payment-card-for-ai-agents", "canonical_source": "https://cryptobriefing.com/alchemy-visa-agentcard-ai-agents/", "published_at": "2026-06-18 13:09:48+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-18 13:25:31.449343+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-policy", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Alchemy", "Visa", "Mastercard", "Solana", "Base", "Polymarket", "AgentCard", "AgentPay"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alchemy-unveils-visa-powered-virtual-payment-card-for-ai-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alchemy-unveils-visa-powered-virtual-payment-card-for-ai-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alchemy-unveils-visa-powered-virtual-payment-card-for-ai-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alchemy-unveils-visa-powered-virtual-payment-card-for-ai-agents.jsonld"}}