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Alchemy's AgentCard Plugs Into Visa Network for Autonomous AI Payments

June 18, 2026 at 09:20 EDT

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AgentCard, a virtual payment card for AI agents from blockchain infrastructure firm Alchemy, has been integrated with Visa's Visa Intelligent Commerce solution suite, enabling AI agents to autonomously execute online payments over the Visa network. The Block reported the move on June 18, 2026.

June 2026 · AgentCard by Alchemy

AI Agents Get a Visa Card of Their Own

Alchemy's AgentCard joins Visa Intelligent Commerce, letting AI agents make autonomous online purchases — API fees, food orders, trades — with network-enforced spending limits and no human in the loop.

4.8B

Visa credentials on the network

175M+

Merchants reachable

300B+

Transactions handled per year

$10.2B

Reported Alchemy valuation

From human-first cards to agent-first cards

How an agent gets paying power — and stays inside its budget.

Agent requests card

via HTTP / CLI

→

Virtual Visa issued

in seconds, tokenized

→

Agent pays

hard limit enforced

→

Freeze / revoke

single-use self-destruct

Built-in guardrails

AES-256-GCM

Card details encrypted at rest; HTTPS-only tokens.

Network hard limits

Spending caps enforced at the network, not just app-side.

Budget separation

Each agent gets its own card — ad-spend agent can't touch billing.

What works

Agents buy their own API credits autonomously
Weekly self-reordering of office supplies
Per-agent budgets keep spending contained

Still early

Private Beta — limited access
Works only at Visa merchants
Pricing undisclosed; crypto/DeFi support to come

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