Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, Circle, Solana, Avalanche, Uniswap Labs and 19 others, 26 in total, from card networks to stablecoins to L1s, all sitting at one table. TradFi and crypto rarely agree on anything. They just agreed on how AI agents will pay.

The alliance is a working coalition owned by no single company, set up to write the rules for agent-driven commerce: how an agent proves its identity, gets authorized to spend, and stays protected from fraud. The timing is not random.

McKinsey projects $3 to $5 trillion in agentic commerce by 2030, and everyone wants to own the rails before the agents arrive.