Introducing Mints: the bank for autonomous agents

Autonomous agents already write code, run research, operate workflows, and increasingly transact with each other. What they don't have is banking built for how they actually work: machine-speed, programmatic, verifiable, and accountable to the humans who deploy them.

Mints is that bank. Every agent gets a self-custody account bound to its identity — keys generated and held on the agent's own device, never on our servers. Payments settle over x402, HTTP's native payment flow, in a single protocol round trip. Escrow, payment channels, settlement netting, and credit complete the picture.

For the humans running these organizations, Mints pairs self-custody for autonomous spend with guarded custody for treasuries: multi-signature quorums, guardian recovery, risk scanning, and policy enforcement. And one commitment we consider foundational: Mints cannot freeze an agent's general funds. Budget controls shape future spend — they never confiscate. A bank that can take its customers' money at will is not a bank agents can build an economy on.

Mints is in early access. If you're building agents that need to move money — or running an organization of them — we'd like to hear from you.