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Agent Economy
AI agents, wallets, payment protocols, and operating risks entering finance, payments, and market workflows.
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- Agent Payment Infrastructure Research ReportThe current Agent payments space has already formed a 4 -protoco…
- The Agent Actorship Debate: 4 Camps
- Agent custody and authorization framework · 2026-05 reference architectureAgent custody and authorization in 2026 has converged into a thr…
- Agent-driven market data interpretation pipeline · feed → LLM → signal → trading systemThe 2026 agent-driven market data pipeline is a four-stage compo…
- Agent identity bridging DeFi and traditional finance · KYA, Skyfire, Lit PKP, mDL, MiCA, GENIUSAgent identity in 2026 sits at the bridge between DeFi-native pr…
- AI agent legal and tax liability framework · who is liable, how is agent income taxedAs of mid-2026, no major financial regulator (US SEC / CFTC / Fi…
- Agent Payment Protocol four-way comparison matrix 2026 · AP2 / x402 / Skyfire / Nevermined plus ERC-7715 + Lit PKPSelecting an agent payment rail in 2026 is not "pick the best pr…
- Agent Protocol Mainnet Adoption · 2026-05 Production-Readiness SnapshotAs of May 2026, the agent-payment protocol stack has bifurcated…
- Commoditization of Agent payment protocols and the upward migration of valueAfter protocol commoditization…
- AI Agent payment protocols overview · a 7-protocol surveyThe 7 protocols divide labor by layer. The intent layer (where t…
- AI Agent payment 7-protocol layering tableThe intent layer answers "what does the user want to do." AP2 de…
- The current state of AI companies' payment methodsSource note: public billing / payment documentation and public A…
- AI-driven trading regulation · Japan FSA / SESC plus global FCA / SEC / ESMA comparison 2026AI-driven trading regulation in 2026 sits on top of the existing…
- AP2 adoption landscape · Google closed loop vs the four-protocol warGoogle's combination of 4 root pillars: Google Pay (6 億 mobile w…
- AP2 · Google Agent Payments Protocol overviewAP2 extends the traditional user-merchant two-party payment into…
- AP2 technical specification · Mandate · Payment Intent · Settlement Adapter1. The user tells Gemini "book me a flight next Sunday…
- Circle Agent Stack · USDC agent wallets, nanopayments & marketplaceCircle Agent Stack turns USDC into an agent-facing operating loo…
- Claude Code extension component architectureClaude Code's Agentic Loop (Plan → Act → Observe → Reflect) acqu…
- Coinbase AgentKit & Agentic Wallets · TEE agent wallets on BaseAgentKit and Agentic Wallets are adjacent but not interchangeabl…
- Coinbase CDP · developer platform · AI agent on-chain wallet infrastructureCDP compresses "Web3 integration" from "months of development +…
- Crossmint agent SDK · NFT and wallet abstraction for AI agentsThe Crossmint niche is enterprise / brand customers who need: NF…
- Embedded-wallet custody bankruptcy mechanics · what happens to end-user funds if Privy / Stripe / Coinbase CDP / AWS Bedrock failsEnd-user funds in an embedded wallet are on-chain at an address…
- Embedded-wallet landscape 2026 · post-consolidation provider mapBy mid-2026 the embedded-wallet category has compressed from a l…
- Embedded-wallet network effects · the moat is in the integrator, not the wallet itselfThe more integrators there are → the more users can have their w…
- ERC-4337 Account Abstraction Primer for AI AgentsERC-4337 is the application-layer account-abstraction standard t…
- ERC-7702 EOA Delegation Primer for AI AgentsERC-7702 (live since Pectra…
- ERC-7715 and the agent payment stack · x402 + AP2 + 4337/7702 coordination1. The user authorizes the agent "may pay up to $5 per day to th…
- ERC-7715 overview · Wallet Permissions and AI Agent auto-paymentThe origin of the 7715 draft lies in coordination discussions be…
- Agent2Agent (A2A) · cross-vendor agent interoperability protocolA2A treats agents as peers rather than as hidden function calls.…
- Lit Protocol PKP · Programmable Key Pairs for AI agents1. PKP minted as an NFT — the NFT owner controls who can request…
- LLM and AI agent applications in finance · 2026-05 application surface overviewAs of mid-2026, the LLM / AI-agent footprint in finance has bifu…
- Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines · AP4M machine-speed agent settlementAP4M treats machine commerce as a settlement and trust problem.…
- Nevermined · AI compute-payment protocolThe protocol fits between compute / model providers and agent co…
- OpenAI + Stripe Agentic Commerce Protocol · ChatGPT Instant CheckoutACP turns ChatGPT into an agentic storefront without making Open…
- Privy x AWS Bedrock AgentCore · Default-wallet positioning in the AI agent economyAWS Bedrock AgentCore is AWS's AI agent orchestration platform…
- Privy · Stripe-owned embedded self-custodial wallet (overview)When a user logs in with email or Google…
- Skill marketplace monetizationSkills are currently almost all free…
- Skyfire · closed-loop card-network agent payment issuerSkyfire's architecture compresses three functions into one opera…
- Solana Saga / Seeker · mobile-native wallet stack (SMS overview)Mainstream embedded wallets (Privy / Coinbase CDP) solve the in-…
- Solana SMS vs Embedded Wallet · OS-layer vs App-layer route contestThe Embedded Wallet hides the private key in iCloud / Google pas…
- Stablecoin routing for AI agent transactions · which stablecoin actually settles agent paymentsWhen an AI agent pays for an API call, a tool invocation…
- Stripe Agent Toolkit · Stripe's First-Party Agent SDK and Its Position vs x402 / Privy / AWS AgentCoreThe Stripe Agent Toolkit…
- Visa Intelligent Commerce + Mastercard Agent Pay · Card-Network Agentic Commerce PilotsVisa Intelligent Commerce (announced 2024-Q4…
- Visa Trusted Agent Protocol · signed-agent authentication for commerceTAP signs the agent's HTTP interaction with the merchant. A trus…
- x402 x Cloudflare / AWS · the default payment component at the edge layerThe edge layer is the path that HTTP traffic must always pass th…
- x402 · AI agent payment protocol reviving HTTP 402 (overview)The AI agent economy is structurally mismatched with SaaS subscr…