zerohash Launches Agentic Finance Tools for Platforms

On-chain infrastructure firm zerohash has launched a set of products that allows artificial intelligence agents, intelligent applications and machine-to-machine systems to initiate financial transactions directly.

The new Agentic Finance Suite gives payments companies, card networks and other businesses the infrastructure they need to embed programmable money movement, stablecoin balances and specific flows into AI-driven products, zerohash said in a Thursday (July 30) press release emailed to PYMNTS.

The set of products enables agents to hold on-chain money, move on-chain money and stream on-chain money. The latter capability includes streaming and metered access, creator and publisher paywalls, public API monetization for AI agents and agentic commerce for platforms, according to the release.

zerohash CEO Edward Woodford said in the release that the Agentic Finance Suite was built to answer two common questions from platforms: “How do we let an agent move money?” and “How do we know that the agent is who it says it is?”

“We have built the complete stack: compliance that reaches the agent and the human or business behind it, settlement that allows metered usage instead of guessing at it, and an agentic foundation that makes the whole thing trusted to run in production,” Woodford said.

zerohash also announced in the release that it has joined the x402 Foundation, an industry initiative focused on establishing open standards for internet-native and machine-driven payments.

The x402 Foundation was launched July 14 by the Linux Foundation and provides an open-governance body for the x402 protocol, an open standard designed to support agentic payments. At the time of its founding, the body included 40 organizations.

The PYMNTS Intelligence report “How Acquirers Prepare for Agentic Commerce” found that acquirers see agentic commerce as an extension of the digital shopping model and are investing in agentic capabilities that enhance payment orchestration and governance.

As part of this effort, acquirers are building the foundations that make agent autonomy trustworthy and interoperable, according to the report.

“Agent-initiated payments represent a new channel, and like every channel before it, success will depend on whether the underlying infrastructure for authentication, risk and transaction orchestration can flex to meet it,” the report said.