{"slug": "crossmint-launches-visa-powered-card-payments-api-for-ai-agents", "title": "Crossmint launches Visa powered card payments API for AI agents", "summary": "Crossmint launched a public agentic card payments API using Visa Intelligent Commerce and Basis Theory, enabling eligible US Visa cardholders to authorize AI agent payments with tokenized credentials and spending controls. The API addresses a security gap in agentic commerce by allowing developers to integrate existing card networks into AI agent systems without exposing raw card numbers or CVCs. The product is live inside Crossmint’s Lobster.cash payment solution, which can be installed as a tool in agent platforms including Claude Code and OpenClaw.", "body_md": "# Crossmint launches Visa powered card payments API for AI agents\n\nThe new API lets developers enable eligible US Visa cardholders to authorize agent payments with tokenized credentials and spending controls.\n\nCrossmint [launched](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/crossmint-launches-agentic-cards-api-using-visa-intelligent-commerce-and-basis-theory-302786624.html) a public agentic card payments API using Visa Intelligent Commerce and Basis Theory, giving developers a way to enable eligible US issued Visa credit and debit cardholders to use their cards inside AI agent systems.\n\nThe launch addresses a key gap in agentic commerce. As AI agents become more common in consumer and business products, developers have lacked widely adopted payment methods that work with existing card networks while maintaining proper security controls.\n\nCrossmint said that without those rails, some builders have relied on improvised payment flows that can expose credentials or increase misuse risk.\n\nThe API allows end users to access Visa Intelligent Commerce Connect to create tokenized credentials linked to existing Visa cards. These credentials can be used by agents without exposing the underlying card number or CVC, while spending limits help restrict what agents can do.\n\nCrossmint said the system protects card details through tokenization and vaulting mechanisms, while payment data is handled under applicable PCI compliance requirements.\n\nBasis Theory serves as the credential layer, vaulting real card numbers, CVCs, and tokenized credentials outside the agent environment so agents only receive scoped permissions needed for a transaction.\n\nThe product is also live inside lobster.cash, Crossmint’s payment solution for AI agents. Lobster.cash can be installed as a tool in agent platforms including Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes, and Zo Computer, giving agents the ability to pay for goods and services through controlled payment access.\n\nCrossmint co founder Alfonso Gómez Jordana Mañas said agentic commerce has been missing a secure, open payment layer that can work across platforms. Visa Growth Products and Partnerships VP Tanner Riche said secure authorization and user control will be critical as consumers begin delegating tasks to AI agents.\n\nThe launch adds to the growing push to build payment infrastructure for AI agents as developers prepare for software that can transact globally and at scale.\n\nCrossmint, Visa, and Basis Theory are positioning the API as a way to bring card based payments into agentic commerce without handing raw payment details to autonomous systems.\n\n**Disclosure:** This article was edited by Estefano Gomez. 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/crossmint-launches-visa-powered-card-payments-api-for-ai-agents", "canonical_source": "https://cryptobriefing.com/visa-powered-payment-integration-ai-agents/", "published_at": "2026-06-02 16:48:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-02 20:44:52.979167+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Crossmint", "Visa", "Basis Theory", "Visa Intelligent Commerce"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/crossmint-launches-visa-powered-card-payments-api-for-ai-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/crossmint-launches-visa-powered-card-payments-api-for-ai-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/crossmint-launches-visa-powered-card-payments-api-for-ai-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/crossmint-launches-visa-powered-card-payments-api-for-ai-agents.jsonld"}}