AI Agents Get Virtual Wallets with Alchemy-Backed AgentCard

Alchemy-backed AgentCard has launched as a virtual card and identity layer for AI agents. This allows agents to make online purchases while users set limits on spending and track activity in real-time.

The product connects crypto-style programmable payments with more familiar card-network rails, bridging the gap between these two payment systems.

This development is part of a broader push by payment networks, crypto infrastructure firms, and AI companies to define agentic commerce. Visa has been working on intelligent commerce, Mastercard has its own agent-payments efforts, and crypto developers are trying to make low-friction machine payments possible for APIs, content, and software services.