Giving agents the ability to pay
Link has launched a wallet for AI agents, enabling them to make authorized purchases on behalf of consumers using programmatic payment methods. The system uses Stripe's Issuing for agents to generate one-time-use cards or Shared Payment Tokens without exposing users' raw payment credentials. Consumers can review and approve each transaction via Link's web or mobile apps, with future plans to introduce spending limits and automated approvals.
- ▪Link’s wallet for agents allows AI agents to request and use one-time-use cards or Shared Payment Tokens for purchases.
- ▪Consumers must approve each spend request through Link’s web or mobile apps, ensuring control over agent transactions.
- ▪The wallet is built on Stripe’s Issuing for agents, providing developers with tools to create custom agentic financial workflows.
- ▪Developers can use the infrastructure to avoid building wallet systems from scratch and reach Link’s base of over 200 million consumers.
- ▪Support for stablecoins, agentic tokens, and additional payment methods is planned for the future.
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Giving agents the ability to pay April 29, 2026 Dan Hill Product Manager, Link Consumer Product In the Sessions keynote, we talked about how agents are becoming active participants in the internet economy, and how we’re building the infrastructure to support them.Agents have become increasingly capable in recent months, but making purchases across the internet remains difficult. While machine payments protocols are still gaining adoption, agents need to work with the payment options sellers and consumers use today.Today we’re launching Link’s wallet for agents, built on top of Stripe’s new Issuing for agents.
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