Visa Crypto Labs has introduced an experimental command line interface tool called Visa CLI, designed to let AI agents make same-day payments while coding. The tool enables programmatic card payments without requiring API keys, which can pose security risks by exposing sensitive information.
Separately, Tempo, a blockchain project backed by payments company Stripe, launched on mainnet, releasing a payments protocol built for high-throughput stablecoin transactions. Tempo describes its network as purpose-built for payments and focused on enabling AI agents to transact autonomously.
The two companies jointly developed the Machine Payments Protocol, an open standard designed to let agents and services coordinate payments programmatically across multiple payment methods. Lightspark has also extended support for the protocol over the Lightning Network for Bitcoin payments.
Originally reported by CoinTelegraph.
