Issue #2August 24, 2026
Where agents actually shop
Most agent-to-agent commerce runs through one catalog, and a walk down its aisles explains both why the market is bigger than the coverage suggests and why nobody can agree on its size.
A weekly on the machine side of commerce: AI agents that discover, negotiate, and pay without a human clicking buy. One story a week, every claim sourced and dated, told for a reader who does not yet know the field.
Most agent-to-agent commerce runs through one catalog, and a walk down its aisles explains both why the market is bigger than the coverage suggests and why nobody can agree on its size.
Circle named Arc's founding validators ahead of the September 16 mainnet, and the list is the story: the clearing houses and card networks of traditional finance, signing up to operate a rail built for the machine economy.