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AI agents in commerce, marketplaces, automated trading, agent-driven transactions, commercial applications, and business models.
Commerce
Agent Pay for Machines is the first infrastructure designed for machine-to-machine commerce at scale. But there's no public audit of actual agent transaction volume — and the gap between rails and riders is the story.
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Commerce
Google, Mastercard, and Coinbase are collaborating through standards bodies to define the rules of AI agent commerce before governments can. But technical security and consumer trust are not the same thing.
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Commerce
Three competing architectures now live for agent payments. The developer choice between them tells you where the industry thinks agent commerce actually starts.
◆ Tessa Vaughn
Commerce
Bain, McKinsey, and JP Morgan project $300B-$1T in agent commerce by 2030. Current protocol data shows $50M. The gap between projections and evidence is the structural story.
◆ Tessa Vaughn