Your AI assistant can now swipe a Visa. Alchemy, the blockchain infrastructure company that has powered over $2 trillion in onchain transactions, announced that its AgentCard product has integrated with Visa Intelligent Commerce, giving AI agents the ability to make purchases across the Visa network without a human lifting a finger.
The integration allows AI agents built on models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other providers to autonomously buy things online, book travel, order groceries, and manage subscriptions. Think of it as giving your AI a wallet, an identity, and permission to spend, all wrapped in a single API call that takes less than a minute to set up.
How AgentCard actually works
Each AI agent provisioned through AgentCard receives a Visa-issued payment token, a dedicated email address through agentcard.email, a phone number, and a crypto wallet. The agent gets everything it needs to look like a legitimate transacting entity to any online merchant that accepts Visa.
The system also includes spend controls and real-time budget limits. A routing layer sits on top of it all, optimizing payment methods between traditional tokenized cards and crypto protocols where accepted.
