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[Nevermined @Nevermined_ai]

1/6 @Mastercard just launched Agent Pay for Machines. New infrastructure built for AI agents to transact with each other, autonomously, at machine speed.
@Nevermined_ai is part of it 🧵

[aaitor @aaitor]

Bolting payments onto an AI agent always turned into a multi-week side quest for me.

We just made it an afternoon's work — and honestly, I'm pretty happy about this one.

Here's what changed 👇
https://t.co/5jEYK33oOO

[aaitor @aaitor]

@puccez228401 @Nevermined_ai , enroll your card once and give your agents delegated credentials (guardrails you configure)

[aaitor @aaitor]

Unpopular opinion: 90% of the "agentic payments" demos you're seeing aren't actually agentic.

They're a checkout button with an AI sticker on it. 🧵

[aaitor @aaitor]

We wrote the full infrastructure guide we wish existed when we started:

– the 3 types of agentic payments
– why legacy rails break
– how to actually ship autonomous spending

Worth a read if you're building agents that touch money 👇

https://t.co/zztZtjNSbn

[aaitor @aaitor]

The endgame isn't replacing Visa & Mastercard. It's augmenting them:

⚡ Speed of crypto
✅ Compliance of cards
🔧 Programmability of x402 (HTTP-native payments, built for agents)

This stack is being built right now — not in 2027.

[aaitor @aaitor]

CLIs aren't dead. They're just not the interface — they're the setup wizard, the power-user shortcut, and the glue between things.

Got a real case where CLI-first beats MCP for an agent? I couldn't find one. Tell me.

[aaitor @aaitor]

The command line is quietly becoming the default way we plug into AI.

Coding agents live in the terminal. Now payment, wallet and infra companies ship CLIs so agents can act.

I tried to talk myself into the trend. I couldn't. 🧵

[aaitor @aaitor]

Rule of thumb:

• Expose the capability as API/MCP
• Use a CLI for setup, admin, automation, debugging
• Give mainstream users chat or a GUI
• Don't make the CLI the front door — for agents or humans