Locus
Payment infrastructure for AI agents settling in USDC
About
Locus is a Y Combinator-backed (F25) company building non-custodial wallet and payment infrastructure for AI agents, with funds held in agent-controlled smart wallets on Base and settled in USDC. It provides policy enforcement, spending limits, per-transaction budgets, approval thresholds and vendor allowlists, and lets agents pay-per-use across 30+ APIs from a single wallet. Its Locus Founder product is an AI agent that builds and runs an internet business.
Stablecoins
Key products
Chains
- Founded
- 2025
- HQ
- San Francisco, USA
- Stage
- Seed
- Funding
- Y Combinator F25
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