Privy Wallets Now Power Agentic Payments and Commerce on Nevermined
Today we are excited to share that Privy wallets are now fully integrated into Nevermined. This partnership brings user-friendly, identity linked wallets directly into the Nevermined ecosystem and enables AI agents to continue participating in real economic activity.
Nevermined’s mission is to make every AI agent profitable. The Nevermined stack provides the infrastructure for metering, billing, and settling payments between agents with predictable pricing and strong guardrails. With Privy, users can now onboard agents via Nevermined through familiar login flows and instantly receive a secure wallet that becomes the foundation for agentic spending and revenue.
This integration marks an important moment in the evolution of agentic AI. Agents are no longer limited to reasoning or task execution. They can now transact, charge for their work, pay for services, and operate inside real business models. Privy brings the human identity and wallet layer that makes this possible.
Why this Partnership Matters
AI agents require a few essential ingredients to participate in commerce. They need:
- Access to funds
- A verified identity connected to a human decision maker
- A clear permission model for spending
- Infrastructure to meter and settle value
- A safe environment for recurring, one-time, and/or usage based transactions
Privy provides the first two. Nevermined provides the rest.
When a user signs into Nevermined through Privy, they bring their identity and wallet with them. This is not only authentication. It represents the start of managed delegation. The user chooses to fund an initial wallet and allow an agent to spend. The user also chooses what a pricing plan can look like or what budget can be applied. Every action is tied back to a clean permissioning model.
Nevermined then enforces those permissions across the entire payment flow. Pricing plans, quotas, metering, usage, and receipts all live inside the platform rather than in the logic of individual agents. This structure helps remove complexity and reduces the risk of unpredictable behavior. Developers gain a consistent way to monetize agent actions. Product teams gain predictable revenue mechanics. Users stay in control.
How it Works: Wallets and Stablecoins
With Privy, each user brings a wallet into the Nevermined environment. This wallet becomes the source of liquidity that agents draw from when performing work that is tied to the user’s identity. The user can delegate spending authority to their agents with clear rules and limits. The agent carries out the action. Nevermined meters usage, validates permissions, and settles the payment on-chain with clear and auditable receipts.
Stablecoins like USDC play a crucial role here. They allow agents to purchase access to other agents with no intermediaries. Privy abstracts away the complexity so users do not need to interact with seed phrases or manage blockchain details. The entire experience feels familiar, while the underlying rails are built for automation and scale.
What this Unlocks for Builders
Privy and Nevermined give developers a practical way to build real commercial systems powered by agents.
To make this easy, builders can start in several ways.
- Builders can use the Nevermined libraries to integrate usage based billing and settlement directly into their applications.
- Builders can use the Nevermined app to see how budgets, permissions, and payments behave in a live environment and create live payment plans.
- And for teams that want to move fast without managing infrastructure, partner platforms such as Buildship offer a workflow driven environment where developers can create agents, deploy a trigger to monetize their agent, and begin selling their agentic services immediately. Buildship provides a simple and accessible on-ramp for bringing agents into the real-world, using Privy and Nevermined to create real agentic payments and revenue flows.
Developers can begin today through any path they prefer. Explore the Nevermined libraries. Try the Nevermined app. Or build and monetize agents directly through Buildship, all while relying on the battle-tested infra both Privy and Nevermined provide.
Identity, Authorization, and Autonomous Economic Activity
Identity and authentication have always been critical for secure applications. In the agentic world they serve an even more important purpose. They become the anchor that allows humans to delegate controlled financial authority to autonomous systems.
With Privy and Nevermined working together, developers now have a unified stack for onboarding, identity, authorization, payment, and settlement. This structure allows builders across the AI ecosystem to think more seriously about operating costs, revenue models, and long term sustainability. It is not enough for agents to be intelligent. They must also be commercially viable. This partnership makes that possible. This also opens the door to new types of businesses that operate with minimal human involvement. These businesses can discover new capabilities, purchase services from other agents, deliver value, and charge for their work.
This is the backbone of agentic commerce. Infrastructure that helps agents learn, act, and economically sustain themselves. It is one of the clearest paths toward fully autonomous businesses.
What Comes Next
The Privy and Nevermined teams will continue to explore and build the multi-agent economy, focusing on the importance of:
- Why agents need to participate in real economic activity
- Why stablecoins and permissioned wallets are essential for agentic systems
- How programmable payments and metering work under the hood
- How developers can build usage based, revenue generating agents on Nevermined
- How this connects to emerging interoperability standards such as x402, MCP, A2A, and AP2
The goal is to help every builder understand how to commercialize their agents and bring them into the global economy.
Privy and Nevermined are committed to creating the foundation for agentic systems that can operate reliably, profitably, and safely. If you are building agents that need to monetize or transact, reach out to us our simply start building today!
