Tether leads $15M funding for Mural to power AI agent payments

Tether has led a $15 million funding round for Mural, a company focused on payments for AI agents, according to Crypto News. The investment links one of crypto’s largest stablecoin issuers with a growing effort to build payment infrastructure for autonomous software systems.

AI agents are software programs designed to carry out tasks with varying degrees of autonomy. In payment use cases, such systems could need ways to send, receive or manage transactions as part of completing assigned actions. Mural’s focus places it at the intersection of artificial intelligence, digital payments and Web3 infrastructure.

Tether is best known as the issuer of USDT, a stablecoin designed to track the value of the US dollar. Its participation in Mural’s funding round highlights continued interest in stablecoins and blockchain-based payment tools as potential rails for machine-driven commerce.

The announcement did not provide further details on Mural’s products, the round’s other participants, or how the $15 million will be used. Still, the funding adds to broader industry attention on how AI agents may interact with payment networks as their capabilities expand.