Stripe, Kite, and Odei Ship Financial and Identity Rails for Autonomous Agents
In a single 24-hour window, three companies launched infrastructure that lets AI agents spend money, prove their identity, and transact on-chain — the clearest signal yet that the "agent economy" is moving from slide decks to production.
Stripe announced a new Link wallet product purpose-built for AI agents, giving autonomous software a secure channel to make purchases on behalf of users and businesses, as @stripe revealed on Wednesday. The feature lets developers grant agents scoped spending authority through Stripe's existing payments infrastructure, sidestepping the mess of handing raw credit card numbers to software that acts on its own. It is, in effect, a corporate card for code.
The timing was not coincidental. Within hours of Stripe's announcement, two blockchain-native projects shipped identity primitives aimed at the same emerging market. @GoKiteAI launched Kite Mainnet and its Agent Passport system on Avalanche, providing on-chain credentials that let agents prove who deployed them, what permissions they hold, and what actions they've taken. Separately, Odei went live on Base with a competing Agent Passport standard, as @Zer0H1ro documented — focused specifically on verifiable AI identity for multi-agent environments where trust between autonomous systems matters.
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