The Agent Economy Needs Infrastructure, Not Custody

<p>The AI agent economy is about to get very real. When Claude needs to call an API, when a trading bot wants to execute a swap, or when an autonomous researcher needs to purchase a dataset — how do they pay? Today's answer is simple: they don't. Humans set up accounts, deposit funds, and babysit every transaction. But that doesn't scale when you have thousands of agents operating independently.</p> <p>The missing piece isn't smarter AI or better models. It's financial infrastructure that agents can operate autonomously — wallets they control, policies they respect, and payment rails they can use without human intervention.</p> <h2> Why Agent Wallets Matter More Than Agent Intelligence </h2> <p>We're building increasingly sophisticated AI agents that can write code, analyze markets, and ma