Oobit launches Tether-backed corporate cards for AI agents

Oobit launched Agent Cards in 2026, a corporate card product designed for artificial intelligence agents. Each agent receives a programmable virtual card linked to the company’s Oobit stablecoin treasury. Onboarding is open to a limited group of KYB-verified businesses through the second quarter of 2026.

The cards are issued on Oobit’s payments platform, which the company says is backed by Tether and connects to about 150 million merchants in more than 100 countries. Oobit says each card can be set up in under three minutes and will work with any agent framework.

Finance teams can assign per-agent spend limits, merchant category restrictions and hard caps. Oobit built controls into the transaction layer so rules are enforced server-side before a charge clears. Every approval or decline generates a structured, human-readable reason that appears in Oobit’s dashboard for tracking and reconciliation.

Agent Cards draw funds directly from a company’s Oobit stablecoin holdings rather than flowing through traditional banking rails, which the company says reduces banking delays and foreign-exchange overhead. Oobit added that the issuing infrastructure is backed by Tether, which it reports has $189 billion in circulation.

Oobit cited a 2025 report from McKinsey that found 23% of organizations are scaling agentic AI in production and 39% are running active experiments. The company said many current deployments use shared corporate cards or virtual cards built for human users, creating gaps in audit trails and per-agent controls.

The product is aimed at enterprises where automated agents handle procurement, subscription management or digital-ad buying. Oobit said compliance checks are enforced at onboarding and that broader availability will depend on further compliance clearance.

Amram Adar, Oobit’s CEO, described the company’s approach: “Every other company trying to give AI agents spending power is duct-taping fintech built for humans onto software that doesn’t behave like one.” He added: “Agent Cards is the first time someone has asked the actual question. If you were designing a corporate card from scratch in 2026, knowing the cardholder was going to be software, what would it look like? This is what it looks like.”