MoonPay launches MoonAgents Card to let AI agents spend stablecoins through Mastercard
MoonPay announced the upcoming launch of MoonAgents Card, a virtual Mastercard debit card that will allow users and AI agents to spend stablecoins directly from onchain balances at online merchants that accept Mastercard. The card is being developed with Monavate‘s regulated card issuing infrastructure and Mastercard’s global payments network. MoonPay said the product is designed for programmatic access through MoonPay CLI and MoonPay Agents workflows, giving AI agents a way to spend without requiring users to preload a custodial balance or move funds offchain before each transaction. The launch comes as crypto firms race to give AI agents financial capabilities beyond chat, research, and recommendations. Coinbase announced the launch of Agentic Wallets in February 2026, giving autonomous agents the ability to spend, earn, and trade onchain through programmable guardrails. Coinbase has also been building AgentKit, a developer toolkit for giving AI agents crypto wallets and onchain interactions. The toolkit is designed to work across AI frameworks and wallets, while supporting stablecoin payments and agent monetization. Telegrams TON ecosystem has moved in the same direction. TON Tech launched Agentic Wallets this week, an open standard that lets AI agents manage dedicated onchain wallets funded by users and transact through Telegram without requiring manual approval for