MoonPay launches MoonAgents Card to let AI agents spend stablecoins through Mastercard
MoonPay’s MoonAgents Card will let users and AI agents spend stablecoins from onchain balances through a virtual Mastercard debit card.
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Add us on Google by Estefano Gomez May. 1, 2026MoonPay 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.
Telegram’s 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 every action. The system keeps users in control through allocated balances and dedicated wallet permissions.
MoonAgents Card is MoonPay’s latest step in building payments infrastructure for that agent economy. In March, MoonPay launched the Open Wallet Standard, an open source framework backed by groups including PayPal, Circle, the Ethereum Foundation, Solana Foundation, and Base, designed to let AI agents hold funds and sign blockchain transactions across multiple chains.
Under MoonPay’s card model, a user links a self custodial wallet to a Mastercard virtual card. The user authorizes a smart contract to access stablecoin balances at the time of purchase, while Monavate handles onchain funding and card authorization in real time. MoonPay said custody remains with the user, approvals can be revoked, and declined transaction funds return to the wallet immediately.
MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto Wright said agents are already managing wallets, executing trades, and moving value onchain, but lacked a way to spend at merchants. MoonPay said its CLI has processed more than 4 million tool calls since launch, with the first million taking 30 days and the second million taking seven, pointing to faster developer adoption of agent based crypto workflows.
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