Crossmint’s Lobster.cash Integrates Mastercard Agent Pay for Agentic Commerce

Lobster.cash, the artificial intelligence (AI) agent payment platform built by Crossmint, announced this week that it will integrate Mastercard Agent Pay and Verifiable Intent, allowing AI agents to process purchases against cardholders’ existing Mastercard accounts.

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Crossmint co-founder Alfonso Gomez-Jordana Manas said the goal is removing friction between cardholders and their agents. “They can put the card they already have to work for their agent, with the security and control they expect from Mastercard,” he remarked. “This is how agentic payments reach everyone.”

Each transaction will run through Mastercard’s network under issuer controls, meaning card issuers retain visibility into what agents are buying, for how much, and under what conditions. Lobster.cash also uses Basis Theory as the credential layer, keeping sensitive payment data off agent infrastructure entirely.

Those records allow issuers, merchants, and platforms to independently verify agent activity after the fact. The system is designed to work across protocols, giving it flexibility as agentic platforms multiply.

Mastercard Agent Pay is already deployed by major financial institutions including Santander, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, DBS, and UOB. Bringing it into lobster.cash extends that infrastructure to open platforms where developer-defined controls have historically governed agent spending.

The companies plan to open an early access program before rolling out the integration to the full Openclaw ecosystem and additional agent platforms. A waitlist is available at lobster.cash.