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The Agentic Economy

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.

Publishing weekly beginning August 17, 2026 · Why this exists


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.

Issue #1August 17, 2026

The validators arrive

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.

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Why The Agentic Economy exists
What it covers, and the promises a reader can hold us to.
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Methodology & retraction record
The method as published, and the 2026-08-08 retraction of the Agentic Commerce Index it replaces.