Lobster.cash, the AI agent payment solution developed by Crossmint, has announced plans to integrate Mastercard Agent Pay and Verifiable Intent, allowing AI agents to make secure purchases using consumers’ existing Mastercard cards.
The integration will initially be made available to users of OpenClaw, which has seen more than one million agents deployed across over 20 messaging platforms.
Through the partnership, OpenClaw users will be able to authorise their AI agents to transact on their behalf, with each transaction authenticated through Mastercard’s network, governed by issuer controls, and cryptographically tied to the user’s explicit approval. Basis Theory will serve as the agentic credential layer within the solution.
Mastercard Agent Pay is designed to let consumers delegate purchasing power to AI agents without exposing sensitive payment credentials, while maintaining issuer oversight, network controls, and full traceability. The framework supports scalable agent-driven commerce and gives issuers visibility into agent activity, enabling developers to build within a controlled and accountable environment.
Lobster.cash offers payment infrastructure for AI agents across a range of platforms, including OpenClaw, Claude Code, Devin, Hermes, and Zo Computer. The platform gives agent users programmatic control over what their agent can spend, where, when, and via which payment method. The Mastercard integration introduces network-backed trust and issuer-aligned controls into open agent ecosystems that have historically depended on platform-specific or developer-defined frameworks.
Mastercard Agent Pay has already been adopted by major financial institutions including Santander, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, DBS, and UOB.
Crossmint co-founder Alfonso Gómez-Jordana Mañas said, “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. 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.”
Mastercard chief digital officer Pablo Fourez said, “Mastercard Agent Pay was built to bring trust and accountability to every agentic transaction. 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.”
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