Visa has launched Visa CLI, the first product from its Visa Crypto Lab, designed to serve the payments sector for AI agents. This closed beta tool enables agents to pay for external API calls on demand, such as image generation or market data, without requiring pre-configured accounts. Meanwhile, payment networks like Stripe and Mastercard, as well as crypto companies like Circle, are advancing their own agentic commerce frameworks, highlighting the differences between traditional trust layers and blockchain-native approaches in autonomous AI transactions.
Visa has launched Visa CLI, the first product from its Visa Crypto Lab, designed to serve the payments sector for AI agents. This closed beta tool enables agents to pay for external API calls on demand, such as image generation or market data, without requiring pre-configured accounts. Meanwhile, payment networks like Stripe and Mastercard, as well as crypto companies like Circle, are advancing their own agentic commerce frameworks, highlighting the differences between traditional trust layers and blockchain-native approaches in autonomous AI transactions.