AI Agents Now Have Credit Cards

Today Nevermined announced the integration that many fintech developers and crypto developers have been waiting for: a unified commerce layer that gives AI agents both delegated Visa credit cards and stablecoin wallets through a single platform. By combining Visa Intelligent Commerce with Coinbase's x402 protocol, Nevermined has created the first production infrastructure where autonomous software can pay for goods and services — using either traditional card rails or crypto — without human intervention per transaction. For any payment developer or AI agent developer in the UK, this is the clearest signal yet that agentic commerce infrastructure is ready to build on. How AI Agents Get Their Own Credit Cards The core innovation is what Visa calls "agentic tokens" — a fourth token type purpose-built for AI agents, sitting alongside the familiar card-present, card-not-present, and device token categories. Here is how the delegation flow works: User enrolment: A cardholder registers their