AI Agents to Soon Handle Routine Purchases with Bitcoin
At the Agnic.AI's Agentic Commerce Pioneers event in Toronto on September 21, AI shopping agents took center stage as they built working models that pay merchants and each other in Bitcoin. Roman Yermoshin, General Manager of GoBTC Pay, a Bitcoin payment protocol developed by mining company GoMining, said that soon people will stop placing orders themselves, and their AI agents will take over routine purchases.
According to Yermoshin, AI agents will choose products and pay for orders on behalf of the user. They will also settle up with each other for services provided in Bitcoin, an independent international currency. GoBTC Pay was designed to handle this environment, allowing agents to pay instantly and at minimal cost without banks or intermediaries.
The event, a remote build sprint from September 10 to 20, had teams working on building AI agents that can buy from almost any merchant using the GoBTC Pay protocol. The track reflects a structural mismatch between autonomous agents and existing payment rails, which assume a person is standing at checkout to approve each transaction.
GoBTC Pay settles transactions directly on the Bitcoin base layer instead of converting to fiat by default. Payers pay nothing, while merchants pay a 0.2% fee split between the wallet provider and the miners who process the settlement. The product launched in May 2026 and opened to outside developers in June with its Gen1 SDK and API.