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Ramp Agent Cards look like an exceptional solution for businesses looking to delegate their ramp cards to agents.
They use Visa Intelligent Commerce, IMO the best protocol for agent cards.
If you are building an agent platform, though, you can't expect your customers to all use Ramp. If you use OpenClaw, you may not have ramp either.
For this, chat with @crossmint - we are building lobster.cash and already enabling a handful of agent platforms to issue scoped cards from whichever card the user is using (ramp or not) + stablecoin onramps, all-in-one.
Today, we're launching Ramp Agent Cards.
There's been no safe way for agents to spend money, until now. Ramp Agent Cards give agents the ability to spend, governed with real spend limits, merchant controls, and full visibility into every transaction.
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The prompt
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create the most incredible 2d animation explaining what I do at crossmint as a company. 4 minutes long ,coherent story,and dialogue n sounds, BLOW ME AWAY. Make it motivational -- literally demonstrate capabilities not even thought of as possible, use up to 15 agents - install and use any tools needed. Deliver the result as an MP4.
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AI inference can now be bought and sold on an open market.
@AntSeed lets anyone access over 610+ models on their peer-to-peer network, using Crossmint Onramp to fund their account with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or a card.
You can now pay with card, Apple Pay and Google Pay on Antseed 🐜
Use your favorite AI models and pay however you prefer
Powered by @crossmint
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Bot detection will be dead next year
Human verification will be the only way to go
Bot detection & human verification will be one of the most urgent demands for businesses over the coming years. Agent swarms will suffocate every website and form; small companies and government websites are most vulnerable.
There is a huge gap in the market for this right now. When we looked at what offerings were in the market to use at X, there was not a single company that brought together all the latest technologies so we had to do it all in-house.
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Alfonso retweeted
The Muse/Amazon situation shows how early agent commerce still is. Good plans need a way to pay, and there’s still a lot of infrastructure to build before agents can transact reliably.
We’re partnering with @crossmint to bring three new capabilities to @Karpo_AI:
1. Cards for agent payments
2. Checkout for ecommerce orders
3. Crypto onramps to fund agent wallets
Still in the works. If you want early access, reply here and I’ll send you an invite when it’s ready.
Excited to build this with @rodrifernandezt, @alfongj and @alexsrawitz 💳
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Recover your wallet, or approve a transaction, now directly from WhatsApp
We’re expanding the key signer capabilities of Crossmint Wallets.
Introducing WhatsApp Signers.
Your users can now get an OTP over WhatsApp to recover their wallet or approve transactions. You choose what fits best.
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it's finally time for the final rollout
I joined @crossmint five months ago to build infra for agentic payments.
It's been a pleasure to work with @alfongj and @rodrifernandezt and the tireless engineers and PMs who do the heavy lifting.
We have the best platform to let agents buy things. Follow along for updates!
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few realize this
users prefer to pay with cards
merchants prefer instant onboarding, instant settlement, no chargeback (stables)
agents will connect the messy middle
Accepting cards takes a Stripe account and a KYB. Accepting stablecoins takes a wallet address.
Agents pay whatever the merchant takes, so demand comes from endpoints that only take stablecoins, like a 5 cent API call. The agent on-ramps itself.
@alfongj on Final Settlement.
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When the token is the product, the training is the COGS
The accounting trick is simple;
1. you buy GPUs (recorded as asset)
2. you train model (recorded as R&D)
3. you deploy model (revenue)
4. you pay for power & cooling (cost of revenue)
The S1 only shows you 3 & 4
(80% margin omg!)
How do you get 3 without 1 & 2?
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You won’t want to miss this week’s episode with @alfongj co-founder of @crossmint.
We discuss:
- Humans Will Not Decide How They Pay. Their Agents Will
- Why Every Country Suddenly Needs a Stablecoin Strategy
- The Real Reason Remittance Firms Are Adopting Stablecoins
- The End State For Money As Bitcoin
Backed by @RibbitCapital and partnered with firms like Western Union, Robinhood, Fomo, and more, you will want to hear directly from Alfonso about what the largest firms are working on for stablecoin adoption.
1. Consumers Will Not Choose Stablecoins. Their Agents Will.
Human’s will mostly not adopt stablecoins, but agents will adopt the cheapest and fastest payment technology without human intervention.
2. "Maybe at Some Point It's All Bitcoin"
Three or four stablecoins likely coexist for five to ten years, each big network minting its own on top, and then maybe it is all bitcoin. His reasoning: machines doing all the payments have no attachment to the dollar, and bitcoin is the most neutral asset available what it lacks today is payment connectivity, which is exactly what stablecoins have. But there’s no reason bitcoin won’t get there over time.
3. Nobody Wants to Pay in Stablecoins, But Fintechs Want to Adopt Them
Few consumers chose stablecoins. They are a back-end technology, Visa settles in them, MoneyGram is rebuilding its core on them, while the user sees a card and dollars.
4. Why Governments Went 180
Stablecoin issuers became one of the biggest buyers of US debt, and became strategically important overnight. The US passed GENIUS, Europe answered with MiCA. Every country needs a plan, or will be overtaken by USDC.
5. The Real Reason Remittance Firms Are Switching
Money held in stablecoins earns yield on the float 100% of the time instead of only while it sits on your books (roughly 3x the yield revenue, in his example), and one integration replaces about 200 vendor relationships for global cards and savings.
6. Who Takes the Liability When Your Agent Gets Prompt-Injected?
The money is yours, the agent was deployed by someone else, and the model behind it can be tricked into wiring funds to a stranger. The primitives are arriving: virtual cards locked to a vendor or amount, the same limits on stablecoin wallets, insurance next.
Full episode below
Consumers will not choose stablecoins. Agents will.
@alfongj, co-founder of @crossmint joins Final Settlement to discuss the forces driving top down stablecoin adoption, agents using money as back-end technology, and stablecoins as a national strategic priority.
Pod links below
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Alfonso retweeted
Full episode links below:
Youtube: piped.video/watch?v=HPMoP6Sj…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3oE…
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Early Riders: earlyriders.com/podcasts/
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Alfonso retweeted
Consumers will not choose stablecoins. Agents will.
@alfongj, co-founder of @crossmint joins Final Settlement to discuss the forces driving top down stablecoin adoption, agents using money as back-end technology, and stablecoins as a national strategic priority.
Pod links below
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Unfortunately it is way closer than that
A long reasoning task in Astra costumes roughly the same energy as one human a day (order of 2000 calories)
In many cases the Astra output would take a human more than a day to reason about...
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I still find it nuts that Astra did this
It made a novel comic with over 150 screens about Death Note L fighting Nolan's Joker
1. It wrote the entire story - and it's decent
2. It designed all the art - A+
3. ...and wrote the comic book reader
The other day I was wondering, how epic would it be to see the best villain, Dark Knight's Joker, vs the best detective - L from Death Note
I had Astra create a comic matching them
Pretty good result (check the link)
nameless-game-comic.alfongj.…
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