Ant opens 10 Asian wallets to AI shopping agents
The open-sourced Agentic Mobile Protocol targets 10 Asian wallets with 1.5 billion accounts, alongside a Know-Your-Agent framework with Visa and Mastercard.
In short
Ant International has open-sourced its Agentic Mobile Protocol on GitHub so autonomous AI agents can pay directly through 10 Asian digital wallets that together hold 1.5 billion consumer accounts.
At a glance
- Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) was published on GitHub by Ant International on Friday as an open standard.
- It reaches 10 wallets in the Alipay+ network with 1.5 billion accounts; only five are named in the report.
- Named wallets: Alipay (mainland China), AlipayHK (Hong Kong), Starryblu (Singapore), KakaoPay and Toss (South Korea).
- Know-your-agent (KYA): a joint identity-verification framework with Visa and Mastercard.
- No launch date, pilot merchants or remaining five wallets are disclosed in the report.
Ant International, the overseas arm of Chinese fintech group Ant Group, released its Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) as open source on GitHub on Friday, pitching it as a standard that lets autonomous AI agents pay from wallets people already carry. The protocol reaches 10 Asian wallets in the Alipay+ network covering 1.5 billion consumer accounts, according to the report.
Which wallets are in
Five are identified: Alipay in mainland China, AlipayHK in Hong Kong, Starryblu in Singapore, and KakaoPay and Toss in South Korea. The other five of the 10 are not named. That leaves it unclear which markets beyond those four are reachable at the start.
The gap AMP aims at
Agent demos usually stall at checkout: the model can assemble a basket, then a person still has to authorize the money. Yang Jiang-ming, chief innovation officer at Ant International, frames AMP as a way for agents to enter existing mobile payment systems as trusted actors. How that trust gets established — mandates, spending caps, reversals — is not spelled out in the report.
Know your agent, with Visa and Mastercard
Alongside the protocol, Ant International announced a joint framework with Visa and Mastercard called know-your-agent (KYA). It is meant to standardize identity checks for AI agents across card networks, digital wallets and online marketplaces. The company it keeps is the substantive part: an agent credential is worth little unless the networks on the other side of a transaction accept it.
What is not established
The report carries no launch date, no pilot merchants and no transaction figures, and it does not say how AMP relates to competing agentic payment schemes. With one source available, we could not verify those points and do not present them as fact here.
FAQ
What is Ant International's Agentic Mobile Protocol?
A protocol open-sourced on GitHub on Friday that is meant to let autonomous AI agents complete purchases straight from a connected digital wallet. Ant International positions it as a candidate global standard.
Which digital wallets can AI agents pay from?
Ten Asian wallets in the Alipay+ network covering 1.5 billion accounts. The report names five of them — Alipay, AlipayHK, Starryblu, KakaoPay and Toss — and leaves the rest unnamed.
What is the know-your-agent (KYA) framework?
A framework Ant International announced with Visa and Mastercard to standardize identity verification for AI agents across card networks, digital wallets and online marketplaces worldwide.
