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It was probably only a matter of time before agentic commerce embraced cryptocurrency. Technology platform Worldwide Stablecoin Payment Network early Friday announced W Agent, which the Singapore-based company calls a “new AI Agent skill.” That means the agents can find merchants, enter orders, and transact in stablecoins “end-to-end,” as the company puts it.
The new service is built on top of WSPN’s existing W Checkout stack, which executes stablecoin settlement once W Agent links buyers’ AI agents with sellers. W Agent relies on what WSPN calls a “lightweight order and payment hub,” which handles the processes for orders, accounting, and receipts but doesn’t touch the money. W Agent also supports spending limits, says WSPN.
“W Agent gives every agent—and every merchant that wants to serve agents—a production-ready stablecoin payment rail, without forcing anyone to give up the compliance and control that enterprise commerce requires,” a WSPN spokesperson says in a statement.
The network says it has already released W Agent and expects to introduce a “major update” soon, and is testing support for fiat currency as well. It began deployments last summer with e-commerce checkouts following a $30-million seed-funding round.
While tech companies work out routines for stablecoin payments, a regulatory foundation for this form of money is coming into being in the U.S. A tentative step emerged Thursday when the U.S. Senate Banking Committee approved the Clarity Act, rules-setting legislation for cryptocurrency commerce, by a vote of 15 to 9. The bill must clear the House of Representatives and the full Senate before reaching President Trump’s desk.
