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Payment credentials could move AI agents from recommendations to purchases
a16z says agents with payment credentials can book a piano teacher they previously could only find and recommend.
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In a discussion with VGS chief strategy officer Terry Angelos, a16z says payment credentials are letting AI agents move from recommending services to buying them. a16z says VGS went from zero agentic tokens to a few million a week in three months. It also says Stripe’s Link, Shopify’s Shop Pay and PayPal are racing to connect with agents, while card-network agentic tokens could let agents pay with a user’s actual card.
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