AI agents can browse the web. Now they need a way to pay for it.
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As agents move from browsing to transacting, payments and authorization become the real choke points—card rails and KYC were built for humans, not autonomous scripts. If you’re in fintech or commerce, start designing “agent wallets” and policy layers now, or expect third parties to own that trust surface.
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