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Visa invests in Replit and integrates its Trusted Agent Protocol into the coding platform, placing payment identity infrastructure directly inside the tools developers use to build AI agents.
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Visa invests in Replit and integrates its Trusted Agent Protocol into the coding platform, placing payment identity infrastructure directly inside the tools developers use to build AI agents.

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