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Crossmint: Agentic Payments Infrastructure

Give your AI agents wallets, stablecoin rails, and card payment capabilities — programmable spending limits, multi-chain support, and Visa/Mastercard integration in one API.

Provider

Crossmint

Pricing model

Usage-based

Price

Free for development; transaction fees on production volume

Verified

2026-07-29

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What it is

Crossmint is an enterprise-grade, all-in-one infrastructure platform that gives AI agents the ability to hold funds and transact autonomously. Trusted by 40,000+ clients and backed by Ribbit Capital, Crossmint provides programmable wallets, stablecoin payment rails, and commerce APIs through a single developer-friendly interface — no blockchain engineers required.

The platform provisions programmable wallets for AI agents with configurable spending limits, approval requirements, and scoped permissions. Agents can pay for tools and APIs over the x402 protocol, top up via fiat or stablecoin, and buy real-world goods through the World Store with access to 1B+ SKUs.

Key capabilities

Agent Wallets

  • Dual-key TEE architecture: the human holds one key, the agent operates with a second
  • Programmable spending caps, session budgets, and merchant allowlists
  • Support for 40+ chains including EVM chains, Solana, and Stellar
  • GOAT (Greatest Of All Transactions) — MIT-licensed, wallet-agnostic framework

Payment Rails

  • Stablecoin — USDC payments via x402 protocol, zero processing fees beyond on-chain gas
  • Card networks — Visa Intelligent Commerce and Mastercard Agent Pay integration
  • lobster.cash — open payment standard for AI agents, powered by Solana, Circle, Visa, Mastercard
  • Fiat on/off-ramps with compliance built in

Governance Controls

  • Programmable guardrails: spending limits, merchant allowlists, human approval gates
  • Audit logs for every agent transaction
  • Single-use credentials for scoped authority
When to use it
  • Your agents need to pay for APIs, data feeds, or inference calls autonomously
  • You want both stablecoin and card payment rails from a single integration
  • Compliance requires audit trails and spending controls enforced at the wallet level
  • You are building cross-border stablecoin payment, payroll, or remittance products
  • Agents need to purchase real-world goods (flights, Shopify, Amazon via World Store)
When not to use it
  • You only need stablecoin payments on EVM chains (Coinbase AgentKit + x402 is simpler)
  • You want to build your own wallet layer on raw signing infrastructure (Turnkey, Privy)
  • Your agents don't transact financially
Pricing

Free for development. Production usage is transaction-fee based. Contact Crossmint for enterprise pricing.

Ecosystem
  • Visa Intelligent Commerce — eligible US-issued Visa cards usable within agent systems
  • Mastercard Agent Pay — integrated via lobster.cash (April 2026)
  • x402 Foundation — co-governed with Cloudflare; Stripe integrated x402 on Base (Feb 2026)
  • Coinbase AgentKit — compatible via x402 protocol
Alternatives
  • Coinbase Agentic Wallets — built on AgentKit + x402, TEE-enforced, EVM + Solana
  • Skyfire — full-stack agent wallet and payment platform
  • Nevermined — protocol-level agent payment infrastructure
  • Stripe — traditional payments, acquired Privy (June 2025) for agent capabilities
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