The headline frames this as a standard venture deal, but Visa’s deployment of Replit across 1,000 internal developers reveals a structural pivot toward AI-native infrastructure. By embedding payment rails directly into the environment where autonomous agents are coded, Visa is quietly building the settlement layer for the emerging machine-to-machine economy. The critical shift to watch is how these tools will allow AI programs to autonomously authenticate and execute financial transactions without human oversight. Here is why this integration fundamentally rewrites the timeline for agent-driven commerce.
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