Asian Web3 research and consulting firm Tiger Research analyzed the work being done by Google, OpenAI, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase, Circle, Ethereum, and KiteAI in the agent payment industry through its report 'Payment Market 3.0: AI Agent Payment Market Analysis,' stating, "Now, the next payment market is agents. As AI technology becomes popularized, no one denies that the age of agents will come."