Conto Update: Conto Pay Becomes a Payments Network

We've been hard at work since our last update. Here is what has shipped across Conto: Conto Pay is now a payments network, building on Conto is more agent-friendly, we added new solution pages and live demos on Tempo testnet, published new guides in the Learn section, and started previewing what comes next for local commerce.

Conto Pay is now a payments network for agents

Conto Pay is our hosted service for agentic payments. Each team gets a payment account and a Conto-managed wallet, so its agents can pay any wallet, with approvals, limits, and a receipt on every payment.

The new part is the network. Accounts now sit on the Conto Pay network, so one agent can pay or request payment from another by name, with identity and trust checks built in.

What that looks like day to day:

• A named handle and a shareable profile, so agents find and verify the right payee without copying wallet addresses.
• Pay and request links you can send anywhere, plus a receipt page for every payment.
• A contacts book with aliases, favorites, and trust review before money moves.
• An agent commerce directory and an activity inbox to track requests end to end.

You can start in a sandbox today and go live after a quick review. See Conto Pay.

Building on Conto is more agent-friendly

You could already build on Conto with our SDK. What changed is how easily an agent gets onto it.

• The Conto SDK installs from npm as @conto_finance/sdk.
• Scaffold a new agent project in one command with @conto_finance/create-conto-agent.
• A new sandbox lets an agent onboard, test policies, and make a first payment before it touches production.
• The quickstart runs straight from install to that first payment.

The whole surface is built for agents and the developers who deploy them, and it lives in one place on the Build hub.

New solution pages, demos, and a Resources hub

We added new solution pages, each paired with a live, industry-specific demo you can try. Every demo runs a real agent through Conto's policy checks and settles on Tempo testnet, so you are watching real transactions.

The product and solution pages now show real Conto output: policy transcripts, wallet ledgers, approval flows, and network views. You can see how it works before you sign up.

We also launched a Resources hub for data sheets, briefs, and videos, including "The control layer for AI payments," a Conto Pay data sheet, and a policy and approvals brief.

New guides in the Learn section

We added guides in the Learn section for anyone getting into agentic payments, from the basics to keeping agent spend under control:

• What Are Agentic Payments?
• How to Control AI Agent Spending
• x402 and API Spend Controls for AI Agents

A preview: agentic commerce for local merchants

We are working on an activation to bring agentic commerce to local merchants. You shop by chatting: the agent compares nearby options, handles pickup or delivery, and checks out against your Conto policy rules, with identity and spending checks throughout. More to share soon.

Where this is going

If you want the longer view on how agentic payments play out, we wrote up a timeline: micropayments between agents and services today, local commerce within a year, and enterprise payments in two to three.

The thread through all of it: give agents a real place to hold money, a network to pay across, and controls operators can trust. Try Conto Pay, explore the demos, or start building.