The marketing version of a stablecoin on-ramp takes three seconds to explain. The plumbing version takes five layers of infrastructure, two different finality regimes, and a 1996 compliance rule that blockchain was never designed to satisfy. This is the plumbing version.
Agentic commerce introduces a new financial actor: the individual as a “corporation of one”, delegating spending authority to multiple AI agents.
This post explores the emerging infrastructure required to support this model: from identity and guardrails to fraud systems and machine-native payment rails.
