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Amazon turned its shopping agent into infrastructure other retailers can rent, and a European bank consortium settled the first live agent-initiated payment. In the same week, the buy side and the pay side of agentic commerce finally connected. The trust gap did not close. It moved to the authorization layer in the middle.
Coinbase built x402. The Linux Foundation runs it. Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and Google are founding members. Here is what the protocol actually does, what it replaces, and the four unsolved problems that will decide whether it becomes infrastructure or a footnote.