Wirex has become a participant in Visa’s Agentic Ready initiative, focusing on enabling artificial intelligence agents to conduct stablecoin transactions. The program aims to create a secure framework for software agents to handle payments autonomously while ensuring user oversight.
This move comes as the agentic economy grows at an annual rate of 44%, with stablecoins offering a continuous payment infrastructure that traditional banking cannot match. Initial tests will concentrate on areas like SaaS subscriptions, marketing budget management, and procurement automation.
For these trials, Wirex will act as an issuer within Visa’s program, collaborating with other ecosystem players to validate that AI-driven payments remain secure and transparent. The company emphasized that users will retain consent and visibility over all transactions.
Wirex’s involvement builds on its existing relationship with Visa as a principal member. The collaboration explores how AI can handle tasks such as travel bookings and subscription management without requiring step-by-step approval. Pavel Matveev, Wirex co-founder and CEO, noted that agent-driven interactions are increasingly common among business clients, and the partnership aims to establish a trusted payment model within Visa’s global network.
This initiative expands Visa’s stablecoin-related efforts, which include previous projects like settlement using Circle’s USDC on Ethereum and newer explorations of tokenized asset spending. Visa has also recently supported crypto reward programs and gold-backed spending cards.