AI Agents Cannot Natively Initiate or Receive Payments
AI agents that need to transact on behalf of users or autonomously have no native payment infrastructure designed for them. Existing gateways require human KYB/KYC signup flows that agents cannot complete. Developers must build complex workarounds or tie agent spending to human-controlled accounts with no programmatic controls.
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