AI agents to use crypto for payments due to bank account limitations
Senior figures from PayPal and Google Cloud stated that agentic commerce will run on crypto rails.
The reason is that AI agents are structurally locked out of traditional bank accounts.
Google has launched the Agentic Payments Protocol with over 120 partners, including PayPal, to address this issue.
A PayPal survey found that 95% of merchants see AI agent traffic, but only 20% have machine-readable catalogs.