OSL launches AgentPay for AI agent stablecoin payments

OSL Group has launched OSL AgentPay, a stablecoin payment infrastructure for AI agents aimed at developers building autonomous payment flows between software agents.

Developers can integrate with the service immediately through an API. AgentPay is designed to let AI agents make intent-based payments using stablecoins, with OSL handling routing, signing and settlement after a developer specifies the amount, asset and payee.

The launch places OSL in a fast-developing area where software agents are expected to carry out transactions with limited human input. Companies across payments, infrastructure and AI have been exploring how digital wallets, protocols and settlement systems can support large volumes of low-value, high-frequency transactions between agents.

The product will support several stablecoins, including USDT, USDC and USDGO, as well as payment protocols such as x402, AP2 and MPP. It is also built to work with multiple wallets and support very small transaction sizes without gas fees.

A key issue in agent payments has been the gap between payment authorisation and settlement. Open protocols can define how agents agree terms and approve a payment, but they do not settle the transfer of value across currencies or networks. AgentPay is intended to address that through a single integration linking protocol support with OSL's stablecoin and fiat settlement infrastructure.

The product will progressively integrate Banxa, the fiat on- and off-ramp provider OSL owns, and its enterprise stablecoin USDGO. That would extend AgentPay beyond crypto-native transfers by linking stablecoin transactions to local currency conversion and settlement.

Growing market

Interest in agent-to-agent payments has grown as AI developers test systems that can negotiate, procure services and complete tasks independently. OSL cited McKinsey research projecting that global agentic commerce could reach USD $3 trillion to USD $5 trillion by 2030.

That forecast helps explain why payment infrastructure providers are building rails tailored to machine-driven transactions. Unlike consumer payments, agent transactions may involve repeated micropayments across multiple services, creating demand for low-cost settlement and support for different digital assets and protocols.

OSL described AgentPay as a multi-stablecoin infrastructure with eight main functions, including an execution interface, path selection across assets, stablecoin abstraction and support for global fiat conversion. The service is being positioned as a back-end settlement layer for developers rather than a consumer-facing product.

Kevin Cui, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of OSL Group, outlined the company's view of the market in a statement on the launch.

"Agentic Commerce is rapidly emerging, and we are proactively embracing Agentic AI to empower the massive wave of economic activity ahead. The core of this economic activity still relies on distribution, liquidity, and infrastructure - and that is exactly where OSL has focused its strengths. We will enable global capital to flow freely through AI agents, the connective tissue of tomorrow's society," Cui said.

Developer focus

The initial target market is developers building AI agents that need a payments layer, rather than businesses seeking a retail checkout tool. The service is meant to simplify payment implementation by allowing developers to submit an intent while the platform determines the settlement steps behind the scenes.

That model reflects a broader shift in software infrastructure, with application developers increasingly relying on external providers to manage payments, identity and compliance functions through APIs. In this case, the aim is to make those functions available to autonomous software agents that may need to pay other agents or services as part of completing a task.

William Yuan, Head of OSL AI Labs and Vice President of Engineering at OSL Group, said the company sees stablecoins as the likely settlement asset for that environment.

"Stablecoins will become the optimal base-layer asset for agentic economic activity. Hundreds of thousands of paying agents are transacting across thousands of endpoints. That is why we are building an ecosystem: protocols, wallets, chains, stablecoin issuers, risk and compliance partners, and the agents themselves. OSL AgentPay will first partner with developers across Asia to actively explore payment scenarios and use cases, and then serve AI commercial opportunities for global enterprises," Yuan said.

OSL's move also reflects the widening overlap between crypto market infrastructure and AI software tooling. Stablecoin providers and exchanges have been looking for new transaction volumes beyond trading activity, while AI developers have been searching for payment mechanisms that can handle automated, cross-border and low-value transfers. AgentPay sits at that intersection, with OSL seeking to use its stablecoin, liquidity and fiat conversion systems as the settlement layer.