Visa Intelligent Commerce opens the card network to AI agents
Tokenized credentials, spend controls and partner APIs for agent-initiated purchases.
company
Visa
Card network opening agent-initiated commerce via tokenized credentials and spend controls.
Machine: /v1/intelligence/entity/visa · Graph: /v1/graph/entities/visa
Graph relationships
- evt-circle-arc-public-testnet-2025-10-28
- evt-linux-foundation-x402-operational-2026-07-14
- evt-openai-apps-agents-commerce
- evt-stablecoin-agent-wallets-pattern
- evt-tempo-mainnet-mpp-2026-03-18
- evt-visa-intelligent-commerce-2025-04-30
Timeline
Circle launches the Arc public testnet
Issuer infrastructure moved from blog to a public test network.
Tempo mainnet ships with Stripe-coauthored Machine Payments Protocol
A payments chain plus an HTTP 402 protocol that is rail-agnostic across cards and stablecoins.
Agent wallets converge on stablecoins plus policy limits
Visa tokens, x402 USDC and MPP SPTs are different wrappers on the same control problem.
Agent commerce protocols proliferate beyond crypto-native stacks
Stripe ACP, Visa Intelligent Commerce, MPP and x402 now sit in one landscape.
Linux Foundation announces operational launch of the x402 Foundation
Forty member organisations listed. Stewardship is now described as active.
Visa, Mastercard and Ant International begin Know-Your-Agent interoperability work
The card networks and Ant are collaborating on shared agent-identity principles. This is a framework effort, not a live cross-network standard.
Machine Economy Daily — 10 September 2026
Agents can now query a public x402 catalog; card networks started shared agent-identity work. Listing count is still not demand.