# What happened Ant International has begun rolling out its Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) across ten major Asian digital wallets and super apps. The first-phase partners include AlipayHK, GCash, DANA, KakaoPay, MPay, TrueMoney, Toss, TNG eWallet and Singapore-based Starryblu. Ant says these wallets together serve about 1.5 billion user accounts and will support AMP within their agent security systems.
# How AMP works AMP is designed so AI agents can make authorised payments inside existing mobile payment systems without forcing users to switch apps or change their payment methods. Users can give an agent a narrowly scoped permission—one task or type of transaction—rather than full account access. Ant's design uses digital identities and trust ratings to determine what each agent can do.
- Agents operate as trusted actors inside wallets and super apps.
- Ant says AMP can reduce the steps required to connect an AI agent to a wallet by about half.
# Partners and ecosystem
# Merchant and developer implications
Ant says AMP includes protections for merchants against certain risks linked to agent-led transactions. The protocol's source code, developer kits and technical documentation are published on GitHub so payment providers, financial institutions and AI platforms can develop and test integrations.
Jiang-Ming Yang, Chief Innovation Officer at Ant International, said: "AMP has been created to enable agents to enter existing mobile payment systems as trusted actors. We are inspired to see how, a few months into its launch, more and more wallets and payment partners are accelerating their AI strategy by bringing this exciting capability to users in the real world."
# Timeline and availability
AMP was launched in April 2026 and entered its first-phase wallet rollout in September 2026. The first-phase wallet partners collectively reach roughly 1.5 billion user accounts. Ant has made developer materials available publicly to accelerate integrations.
# Practical takeaways for readers
- Merchants and acquirers: Several global acquirers have joined the rollout and Ant claims merchant protections are built into the protocol.
- Card networks and regulators: Ant, Mastercard and Visa are working on a shared agent onboarding and identification framework via MAS's BuildFin.ai platform.
# Bottom line