Privy: One-Third of New Developers Building AI Agent Wallets

More than one-third of new developers signing up for Privy are building wallets for AI agents, Debbie Soon, head of marketing at Privy, told reporters. The figure reflects growing interest in agent-driven finance among the company’s developer community.

Privy released a wallet command-line tool that lets individual agents hold and manage their own accounts. The company has focused on ways to allow agents to act on users’ behalf while remaining inside human-defined guard rails.

Privy was acquired by Stripe in June 2025 and continues to run as an independent product. Its wallet infrastructure is embedded across Stripe’s crypto stack, and teams have demonstrated contactless stablecoin payments from a Privy wallet using Stripe Terminal.

The Stripe integration broadened Privy’s customer base beyond crypto-native developers to firms seeking crypto benefits without complex integrations. Users can already spend directly from Privy wallet balances over the Visa card network in more than 100 countries. Privy’s engineering team is working on options to run parts of Stripe’s products on crypto and stablecoins.

Soon said the company is prioritizing production readiness over prototypes and is focused on reliability and safety as agentic finance moves toward platform-level use. She framed control as a core design problem: enabling agents to act autonomously while authority and limits remain with humans.

On payments, Privy continues to support stablecoins. Soon noted regional differences in adoption and pointed to Latin America as a strong consumer market for stablecoins because of local currency volatility. Privy has observed stablecoin transfer volume surpassing some legacy payment rails.

The company is testing features to ease onboarding for non-crypto users, including gas sponsorship and simplified login options that let people open wallets with an email address or phone number without funding an account first.

Privy’s developers are focused on control and usability challenges, refining agent permissions, onboarding flows and transaction steps. The company said it is building tooling to support agent-focused products and expanding the practical reach of crypto payments through existing card and merchant rails.

Debbie Soon described a long-term aim for wallets to be part of everyday financial routines: “I want people to treat crypto wallets the way they look at their Starbucks balances.”