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Crypto bank Anchorage is launching a new agentic banking service, seeking to give AI agents the ability to access and move money without human interference \u2014 an industry that could be worth a trillion dollars, according to its co-founder.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In an X post<\/a> on Tuesday, Anchorage co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley said the firm’s new agentic banking infrastructure gives AI agents the ability to access both traditional finance and crypto payment rails.<\/p>\n Blockchain and tech companies have been rushing to prepare themselves for the future of agentic commerce<\/a>. Firms such as Stripe argued in February<\/a> that blockchains will need to eventually be able to process between 1 million and 1 billion transactions per second to handle the network demand coming from AI<\/a> agents.<\/p>\n “Institutions are experimenting with automation across treasury, payments, and procurement, but they\u2019re doing it on top of systems that were never designed for non-human actors,” said McCauley.<\/p>\n The new banking service would give AI agents a verifiable ID to transact with, preset spending limits, permissions and policies, along with auditability features to maintain regulatory compliance.<\/p>\n The launch came alongside a partnership with Google Cloud, which will provide the intelligence layer that allows AI agents to “discover, negotiate and coordinate” with each other.<\/p>\n Source: <\/em>Nathan McCauley<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Ripple Labs researcher and former head of product marketing Oliver Segovia said<\/a> the deal also reflects a shifting trend in which tech labs and regulated banks are working more closely together.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Hyperscalers typically viewed banks as tier 1 enterprise customers, but moving forward, we’ll start seeing more alliances as labs get deeper into regulated infrastructure and banks build intelligence on top of core systems,” he said in a post on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n Related: <\/strong><\/em>Ripple CEO says market structure bill not a \u2018done deal,\u2019 despite stablecoin compromise<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Speaking at the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami on Tuesday, McCauley argued that the sector will be one of the most important \u201ctrends of the next decade.\u201d<\/p>\n “This is, in my view, set to be a trillion-dollar industry where we are going to have agents paying each other, agents paying merchants, and agents getting paid,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n This isn’t the only agentic finance product rolled out in crypto recently. <\/p>\n On Tuesday, the Solana Foundation launched<\/a> a new gateway service with Google Cloud, allowing AI agents to pay for any APIs using stablecoins on Solana. <\/p>\n On April 30, Tether-backed crypto wallet startup Oobit released a Visa-supported virtual card<\/a> enabling AI agents to make online purchases with USDT for businesses without requiring human interaction.<\/p>\n The cards are funded with USDT directly from Tether’s treasury, enabling agents to keep using capital without needing to top up via fiat on-ramps or conversions.<\/p>\n \u00a0Magazine: <\/strong><\/em>AI-driven hacks could kill DeFi \u2014 unless projects act now<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n