Building the Payment Gateway for AI Agents: A...

The AI agent ecosystem is accelerating. Catena Labs raised $18M. Coinbase shipped agent wallets. Mastercard completed live payments. The market consensus is building: agents will move money at scale. But there's a critical infrastructure gap that most players are overlooking. The Problem: Agents Can Execute Anything Except Payments An AI agent can: Query databases Execute code Manage repositories Orchestrate multi-step workflows Call external APIs But the moment it needs to pay for something—a c