Visa Intelligent Commerce opens the card network to AI agents
Tokenized credentials, spend controls and partner APIs for agent-initiated purchases.
2025-04
What happened
Visa Intelligent Commerce and Google A2A arrived weeks apart. One is delegated card credentials; the other is agent-to-agent tasking. Neither is x402.
Card networks and A2A enter the map
Visa Intelligent Commerce and Google A2A arrived weeks apart. One is delegated card credentials; the other is agent-to-agent tasking. Neither is x402.
Google publishes A2A in an open GitHub repository
Agent-to-agent tasking has a repo. Settlement is still a different layer.
Google publishes Agent2Agent as an interoperability bet
A2A aims at agent-to-agent tasking across vendors, complementary to MCP tool calling.