Visa is ready for AI agents. So is Coinbase. They're building very different internets

Visa and Coinbase are developing competing infrastructure for AI agent payments, with the next trillion-dollar payments network expected to facilitate machine-to-machine transactions at massive scale. This represents a fundamental shift from human-operated checkout systems to autonomous AI-driven commerce.

• →The future payments infrastructure will be designed for AI agents rather than human users.
• →Machine-to-machine transactions will occur thousands of times per second for micro-payments.
• →Visa and Coinbase are building different approaches to AI agent payment systems.
• →The next trillion-dollar payments network will eliminate traditional checkout processes.
• →This shift represents a fundamental change in how digital commerce will operate.