Visa Intelligent Commerce is supporting a new Nevermined integration that allows AI assistants to purchase digital products and services autonomously using existing channels, in a move aimed at turning assistant services into real-time commercial transactions.
The system combines Visa’s agent payment system with Coinbase’s x402, an online payment system, to allow agents to request and pay for digital products such as documents, dataset queries, API responses, and other services.
Nevermined said the launch will allow users and businesses to register their Visa cards, hand over processing power to AI agents, and implement controls including budget limits, purchase caps, transaction restrictions, and time-based rules.
Merchants receive credit card payments through payment service providers, which Nevermined said could include providers such as Stripe, eliminating the need for providers to manage consumer payment systems designed for people.
The release coincides with Visa’s major push into business transactions. Visa launched Intelligent Commerce in April 2025 as a framework that opens up its payment system to developers building AI-driven shopping and payments, and on April 8, 2026, it expanded that effort with Intelligent Commerce Connect, a one-stop-shop for enabling secure payments, branding, money management, and authentication.
Coinbase’s x402 offers a built-in payment system. Coinbase launched x402 in May 2025 as a stablecoin payment protocol over HTTP, designed to allow APIs, software, and AI agents to pay systematically for online services.
Later Coinbase said that x402 has already processed more than 50 million transactions while expanding the process to Agentic Wallets, which is built to allow independent applications to hold funds and make payments without directly using private keys.
For Nevermined, the bottom line is that this closes a growing revenue gap as AI agents increasingly analyze, compare, and exploit online content. Publishers, data providers, and digital media companies face a binary choice between blocking or allowing them to consume content without a pay-per-use mechanism.
Nevermined said its integration gives businesses a way to sell digital products directly to software providers while relying on the payment rails and processors they already use.
