Mastercard

AI agents can now charge purchases to your real Mastercard — no new wallet, no new card, no manual approval for each transaction. As of April 16, Lobster.cash (the agentic payments product by Crossmint) and Mastercard officially partnered to bring Agent Pay to the OpenClaw platform, making OpenClaw the first platform in scope for the integration with over one million active agents in deployment. What the Integration Actually Does Here’s the concrete capability: an OpenClaw agent assigned to book travel, purchase API credits, procure SaaS tools, or execute any other commerce task can now use a consumer’s existing Mastercard to complete those transactions — without the user having to review each individual purchase. ...

The payments infrastructure problem for agentic AI is real: when an AI agent makes a purchase on your behalf, how does the merchant know it was actually authorized? How does your bank verify the agent followed your instructions? How do you audit what happened afterward? On Thursday, Mastercard announced its answer: Verifiable Intent, an open-source, standards-based framework for agentic commerce. What Verifiable Intent Does Verifiable Intent addresses three things that current payment infrastructure doesn’t handle well for AI agents: ...