Alchemy, a leading provider of cryptocurrency infrastructure, has launched AgentPay, a groundbreaking tool that facilitates collaboration between various AI payment systems from prominent companies such as Coinbase, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, and Circle. This innovation addresses the long-standing problem of agentic payment systems being unable to interact with each other, requiring merchants to establish separate integrations for each protocol.
According to Alchemy CTO Guillaume Poncin, 'AgentPay resolves this issue by allowing merchants to register their existing API with us, and we provide them with a new endpoint that enables any agent on any supported protocol to make payments through it.' As a widely recognized 'AWS of Web3,' Alchemy offers essential infrastructure, developer tools, and node services for building blockchain applications. AgentPay promises to simplify the integration process for protocols like x402, MPP, A2P, and L402, acting as a translation layer that routes instructions without directly handling funds. This development is particularly significant in the emerging field of agentic finance, which is expected to play a major role in internet payment activity and involves micro-transactions and nano-payments between AI agents and humans.
Following a private beta soft launch, Alchemy plans to release AgentPay to the general public in the coming weeks.