# Give Your AI Agent a Wallet — Autonomous USDC Payments in 10 Minutes

AI agents are getting good at reasoning, planning, and executing tasks. But there's one thing they still can't do without a human in the loop: pay for things . Most payment infrastructure assumes a human is making the purchase. Credit cards need CVVs. Bank transfers need approvals. OAuth flows need someone to click "Allow". None of that works when your agent needs to autonomously pay for a web scraping API at 3am, or split a task cost with another agent in a pipeline. This tutorial shows you how