40 Startups Building Payments for AI Agents, Mapped in 7 Categories
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-28
Gaspard Lezin published V2 of his map of 40 startups building payments for AI agents in 2026, spanning 7 categories: agent cards & tokens (agentcard, Basis Theory, evervault, PayOS, Laso), wallets & accounts (Crossmint, Openfort, Turnkey, 1Shot, Halliday, Privy, Fireblocks), banks & networks (Natural, Catena Labs, Kite, atxp, Payman, Airwallex, MoonPay, PayBox), pay-per-call & x402 (Nevermined, Daydreams, Merit, Locus, Lava), trust & identity (Vouched, Skyfire, sapiom, t54, MnemoPay, Self, Baselayer), checkout & merchants (Rye, Firmly, nekuda, Bitrefill, mesh, Henry Labs), and agent-to-agent (Termix, Apex Fusion Vector).
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