Alchemy, renowned as the ‘AWS of Web3’, has introduced AgentPay, a tool designed to enable interoperability among various AI payment systems from entities such as Coinbase, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, and Circle. This innovation addresses the current lack of compatibility between agentic payment systems, which forces merchants seeking AI agents as customers to create unique integrations for each protocol.
“This approach is unsustainable and will only lead to greater fragmentation with more systems launching,” remarked Alchemy’s CTO Guillaume Poncin via email. “AgentPay resolves this issue by allowing a merchant to register their existing API with us, providing them a new endpoint where any supported agent can make payments.”
Alchemy provides the essential infrastructure, developer tools, and node services necessary for blockchain application development.
With AgentPay, Alchemy offers a singular integration solution for numerous protocols such as x402, MPP, A2P, and L402. “We act as a translation layer where AgentPay directs instructions without ever handling funds,” explained Poncin.
Agentic finance is anticipated to become a critical component of internet payment activity, involving micro-transactions and nano-payments that often occur between AI agents with human involvement in the background.
Currently, Alchemy has conducted a private beta soft launch for AgentPay, with plans for a broader release scheduled in the upcoming weeks.