Analysis
Periodic, dated breakdowns of where agentic commerce is actually moving. Every claim links to a primary source, the same standard we hold the rest of the site to. For the raw timeline see the changelog, and for the numbers see the statistics.
Agentic commerce in June 2026: the month the payment networks went all in
Visa Intelligent Commerce and the OpenAI deal, Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines, Shopify’s open agentic layer, Coinbase x402 on AWS, and Europe’s first live agentic payments. Dated and sourced.
Read the analysis →Card networks vs open protocols: who controls agentic commerce
The open protocols define how agents transact; Visa and Mastercard are claiming the acceptance and trust layer on top. What June 2026 made explicit.
Read the analysis →Agentic commerce goes live in Europe
Worldline, ING, Nordea and Getnet ran the first production agentic payments, PayPal launched UK in-app checkout, and the FCA began talking about know your agent.
Read the analysis →Stay current on the standards
A note when a standard moves (ACP, UCP, AP2, MCP, x402). No spam.