Missing Layer In Agentic Commerce: Trust, Settlement, Interoperability

Missing Layer In Agentic Commerce: Trust, Settlement, Interoperability

The internet was built on a simple commercial logic: humans trigger transactions, machines facilitate them. Right now, that boundary is starting to blur as autonomous AI agents become capable of managing product discovery, service negotiation, workflow coordination, and increasingly,...

The Trust Layer Nobody Built: Why AI Agents Need Verification Before They Can Spend

The Trust Layer Nobody Built: Why AI Agents Need Verification Before They Can Spend Two developments this week exposed the same gap in agentic infrastructure. Mastercard and Google open-sourced Verifiable Intent, a cryptographic framework that proves an AI agent is doing exactly what its human authorized. Ramp shipped Agent Cards, giving AI agents their own corporate credit lines with built-in spend limits and merchant restrictions. Different co…