The service assigns AI agents a verifiable identity, preset spending limits, configurable permissions and policies.
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Crypto bank Anchorage has launched an agentic banking infrastructure that gives AI agents the ability to access and move capital across both traditional finance and crypto payment rails without human intervention. Co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley announced the product in an X post Tuesday.
The service assigns AI agents a verifiable identity, preset spending limits, configurable permissions and policies, and auditability features designed to maintain regulatory compliance. McCauley said existing financial systems were never built for non-human actors, creating a gap that institutions running automated treasury, payments, and procurement workflows are currently navigating without adequate infrastructure.
The launch includes a partnership with Google Cloud, which provides the intelligence layer enabling AI agents to discover, negotiate, and coordinate with one another. Ripple Labs researcher and former head of product marketing Oliver Segovia said the deal reflects a broader shift in which tech firms and regulated banks are forming closer alliances. "Hyperscalers typically viewed banks as tier 1 enterprise customers, but moving forward, we'll start seeing more alliances as labs get deeper into regulated infrastructure and banks build intelligence on top of core systems," Segovia wrote.
Speaking at the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami on Tuesday, McCauley described agentic banking as one of the most consequential trends of the coming decade. "This is, in my view, set to be a trillion-dollar industry where we are going to have agents paying each other, agents paying merchants, and agents getting paid," he said.
The Anchorage launch is part of a wider push across the industry to build financial infrastructure for AIagents. On Tuesday, the Solana Foundation launched a gateway service with Google Cloud allowing AI agents to pay for any APIs using stablecoins on Solana (SOL).
On April 30, Tether-backed crypto wallet startup Oobit released a Visa-supported virtual card enabling AI agents to make online purchases with USDT for businesses without requiring human interaction. The cards are funded directly from Tether's treasury, allowing agents to deploy capital without fiat on-ramps or currency conversions.
Stripe argued in February that blockchains will eventually need to process between 1 million and 1 billion transactions per second to handle network demand generated by agenticcommerce. Anchorage's new product positions the bank at the intersection of that projected demand and the compliance requirements that institutional adoption will require.
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