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Visa used Mythos to hunt for bugs in its own payment network, then open-sourced the harness that made it possible
Evidence tier: B1 Evidence type: Independent expert curated news report Source: Glenbrook Payments News Published: 2026-07-28 Captured: 2026-07-29T13:40:08.572Z
Source summary
Trust at the scale of global payments gets engineered through what he called pessimism and paranoia, by assuming failure and designing around it before failure arrives. The network has been hardened over many years through zero-trust architecture, layered defenses, and highly automated security operations built for the scale and reliability global payments demand.So when Anthropic invited the organizations behind critical software to test Mythos under Project Glasswing, Visa said yes.
Why it matters
This signal matters because delegated authorization, identity and payment controls will determine whether software agents can transact safely across financial platforms and payment networks.
Key numbers
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Topics and entities
- Industry lane: Agentic payments
- Entities: Visa
- AI-native finance
- Cross-border payments
Evidence and credibility note
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Date evidence: Automatically verified from article:published_time: 2026-07-28T22:10:02.878Z
First-party corroboration
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Original-source traceback
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