Agents in OpenClaw, Claude Code, Hermes, Zo Computer, and other agentic platforms can now securely pay using cardholders' eligible Visa cards.
Lobster.cash, Mastercard Enable Secure AI Agent Payments
April 17, 20268 min
By integrating Mastercard Agent Pay and Verifiable Intent, users of leading agent platforms like OpenClaw will soon be able to authorize their AI agents to transact securely with their existing Mastercard cards through lobster.cash Lobster.cash, the payment solution for AI agents built by Crossmint, today announced plans to integrate Mastercard Agent Pay and Verifiable Intent, enabling AI agents on open agent platforms to transact securely using consumers’ existing Mastercard cards. The integration brings together network-backed payments infrastructure and standards-based proof...
Visa Launches Validator Node on Tempo Blockchain
April 16, 20264 min
Visa has joined the Tempo network as an anchor validator, supporting transaction validation and accelerating the development of onchain payment infrastructure.
Ant International Highlights FinAI for Agentic Commerce Growth
March 14, 20266 min
FinAI has become the essential backbone to enable secure agentic commerce at scale as AI drives change across every part of the economy, said Jiang-Ming Yang, Chief Innovation Officer of Ant International. Global shifts in commerce and payments — The speed of consumer AI adoption has outpaced almost any other technology in history, with analysts forecasting AI-facilitated spend to reach nearly US$8 trillion by 2030 — nearly a quarter of all online sales. — Consumers are embracing new...
Lombard Announced the Appointment of Brandon Neal as COO
March 12, 20265 min
Former New York Fed Treasury Markets Principal and Euler Labs COO to Scale Bitcoin DeFi Infrastructure and Lombard Strategic Endeavors
Thredd Expands Global Platform for Enterprise Scale
March 10, 20265 min
Thredd, the AI-first issuer processing platform, today announced a major acceleration phase for 2026, marked by the appointment of Marilyn McDonald as Chief Technology Officer and the promotion of Ryan Dew to Chief Product Officer. Thredd has never been in a stronger position. A fully cloud-native version of its global platform is live in the United States, with end-to-end credit capabilities launching in the coming months alongside a state-of-the-art debit platform and modern unified ledger....
Spreedly Enables Agentic Commerce as Merchant Channel
March 5, 20265 min
Enterprise brands are powering agentic commerce while retaining full control of their payment infrastructure
Basis Theory Raises $33M to Power Next-Gen Merchant Payments
October 15, 20254 min
Pinterest, Melio, and MoneyGram are among the customers using Basis Theory's infrastructure to control their data and unlock agentic payments.