{"slug": "rain-launches-agentic-payments-alliance", "title": "Rain Launches Agentic Payments Alliance", "summary": "Rain, a stablecoin payments infrastructure provider, launched the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA) with founding members Visa, Mastercard, Circle, Solana, and Remitly to develop standards for AI-agent-driven commerce. The coalition will focus on agent authorization, fraud prevention, identity, and loyalty transfers, and will conduct joint research and develop frameworks. Rain also introduced its Agent Control Layer and Scoped Cards to limit agent payment access, and will give members early access to its Agentic Startup Program.", "body_md": "Rain, an infrastructure provider for stablecoin payments, has launched the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA), a coalition focused on developing standards for commerce powered by AI agents. Founding members include Visa, Mastercard, Circle, Solana, Remitly. Other members include Avalanche, Chainalysis, Fiserv, Fireblocks, Uniswap Labs and Turnkey.\n\nThe alliance will focus on how AI agents can make payments on behalf of users. Key areas include agent authorization, fraud prevention, identity and the transfer of loyalty and rewards.\n\nThe APA will operate as a working coalition controlled by its founding members. The group plans to conduct joint research, develop frameworks, test standards for agent identity and authorization, and discuss regulatory issues related to agent-driven payments.\n\nRain has developed its own Agent Control Layer and Scoped Cards, which provide AI agents with payment credentials designed to limit their access. The company will also give alliance members early access to its Agentic Startup Program, which supports startups developing applications for agentic commerce.\n\n*Image: **Magnific*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rain-launches-agentic-payments-alliance", "canonical_source": "https://cryptonews.net/news/other/33319046/", "published_at": "2026-08-19 14:20:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-19 14:41:03.917740+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-policy", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Rain", "Agentic Payments Alliance", "Visa", "Mastercard", "Circle", "Solana", "Remitly", "Avalanche"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rain-launches-agentic-payments-alliance", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rain-launches-agentic-payments-alliance.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rain-launches-agentic-payments-alliance.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rain-launches-agentic-payments-alliance.jsonld"}}