Lobster.cash partners with Mastercard to enable secure AI agent payments for all existing card holders
By integrating Mastercard Agent Pay and Verifiable Intent, users of leading agent platforms like OpenClaw will soon be able to authorize their AI agents to transact securely with their existing Mastercard cards through lobster.cash
NEW YORK, April 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Lobster.cash, the payment solution for AI agents built by Crossmint, today announced plans to integrate Mastercard Agent Pay and Verifiable Intent, enabling AI agents on open agent platforms to transact securely using consumers' existing Mastercard cards. The integration brings together network-backed payments infrastructure and standards-based proof of authorization, extending trusted card payments into rapidly growing agent ecosystems.
Through this integration, Mastercard cardholders using OpenClaw will be able to authorize AI agents to make purchases on their behalf, with every transaction governed by issuer controls, authenticated through Mastercard's network, and cryptographically linked to the user's explicit intent. The solution also uses Basis Theory as the agentic credential layer. Mastercard Agent Pay will initially be available to OpenClaw agents through lobster.cash, with plans to expand to additional supported agentic platforms.
Extending Trusted Agentic Payments to the Fastest Growing AI Agent Ecosystem
As agentic commerce grows, secure and accountable AI-enabled payments have become essential. Mastercard Agent Pay enables consumers to delegate purchasing to AI agents without sharing sensitive credentials, while preserving issuers oversight, network controls, and traceability. It supports scalable agent-driven commerce, giving issuers insight into agent activity and enabling developers to innovate safely.
Lobster.cash provides payment infrastructure built for AI agents across leading platforms including OpenClaw, Claude Code, Devin, Hermes, and Zo Computer. OpenClaw alone has become one of the fastest-growing open-source projects in history, with over one million agents deployed across more than 20 messaging platforms. Lobster.cash provides a secure, easily accessible payment standard that gives agent users programmatic control over what their agent can spend, where, when, and with which payment method. As open agent ecosystems like OpenClaw scale rapidly, this integration introduces network‑backed trust, accountability, and issuer-aligned controls into environments that have historically relied on platform‑specific or developer‑defined controls.
"Mastercard Agent Pay is one of the most trusted payment infrastructures designed for agentic commerce in the world. Bringing it to lobster.cash means agent users don't need a new wallet or a new card," says Alfonso Gómez-Jordana Mañas, Co-Founder of Crossmint. "They can put the card they already have to work for their agent, with the security and control they expect from Mastercard. This is how agentic payments reach everyone."
Securing Agent Card Payments With Verifiable Intent
Equally critical to agentic commerce is the ability to prove who authorized an agent, under what conditions, and within what limits. To address this need, all agent‑initiated transactions processed through lobster.cash using Mastercard Agent Pay will leverage Mastercard's Verifiable Intent framework.
Verifiable Intent is a standards‑based trust layer, co‑developed by Mastercard with Google and aligned with the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) and Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). It produces cryptographic, tamper‑resistant records of user authorization, enabling issuers, merchants, and platforms to independently verify that each transaction occurred within the scope a user explicitly approved. Designed to be protocol‑agnostic, Verifiable Intent serves as a shared source of truth across open agent ecosystems.
Together, Mastercard Agent Pay and Verifiable Intent ensure that delegation to AI agents does not come at the expense of security, transparency, or consumer protection—embedding trust directly into the transaction lifecycle.
Mastercard Agent Pay has already been implemented by leading financial institutions worldwide, including Santander, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, DBS, and UOB. The integration with lobster.cash extends this trusted infrastructure to open, developer-led agent ecosystems, without compromising issuer oversight or consumer protections.
"Mastercard Agent Pay was built to bring trust and accountability to every agentic transaction," said Pablo Fourez, Chief Digital Officer at Mastercard. "By integrating with lobster.cash, we're extending Mastercard's trusted payments network and infrastructure to open agent platforms, enabling developers to innovate while ensuring consumers and issuers retain the same security and control they expect from Mastercard."
Early Access
The integration will launch through an early access program before rolling out to the OpenClaw ecosystem and other agentic platforms. Register for the waitlist here.
About Lobster.cash
Lobster.cash is the open payment standard for AI agents, built by Crossmint and powered by Solana, Circle, Visa, Mastercard, Basis Theory, and Stytch. Allow your agents to pay for anything securely, with human control and audits. Use everywhere credit cards or stablecoins are accepted. Learn more at lobster.cash.
About Crossmint
Crossmint is the leading enterprise-grade, all-in-one stablecoin and wallet infrastructure enabling agents, fintechs, and enterprises to integrate crypto rails and smart wallets with speed, compliance, and scale. Trusted by more than 40,000 clients, Crossmint provides embedded smart wallets, on/offramps, cross-chain stablecoin orchestration, token checkout, and other blockchain primitives through simple, developer-friendly APIs — no blockchain engineers required. Backed by Ribbit Capital, Franklin Templeton, and other top investors.
About Mastercard
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're building a resilient economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
About Basis Theory
Basis Theory is the leading independent payment vault, built to help merchants and platforms secure, control, and utilize sensitive payment data across systems and partners. Basis Theory sits at the forefront of agentic commerce innovation by also serving as the agentic enablement layer for all agentic credentials. With PCI Level 1 compliance, SOC 2 certification, and a developer-first API, Basis Theory empowers customers to design their payment infrastructure however they choose with zero lock-in. Founded in 2020, the company is backed by Costanoa, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures, and others.
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