Visa, BILL and Billtrust launched an October 20 pilot allowing trusted AI agents to initiate and complete approved invoice payments through supplier portals. The project uses Visa’s Intelligent Commerce tools, including the Trusted Agent Protocol, to authenticate agents on portals historically reserved for human users. The companies emphasize that suppliers retain oversight and controls. For crypto wallets, the main challenges involve budgets, permissions, revocation, audit trails and responsibility when an agent makes a mistake. The pilot is not a public blockchain settlement launch, but it illustrates the importance of a permission layer that can prove an agent is known, constrained and acting within its instructions.
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