{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"A2Z Fintech","title":"S2E14 — Machines with Wallets: From Buy Button to Agentic Commerce","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1680,"description":"Patrick Collison says agents will soon account formost online transactions. The Machine Payments Protocol thatreplaces the buy button is now live, and Stripe, OpenAI,Google, Meta and Microsoft have all signed on.This week at Stripe Sessions 2026, the architecture of agenticcommerce stopped being a thesis and started being plumbing.The Machine Payments Protocol, co-authored by Stripe andTempo, is live. ACP and UCP have settled the discovery layer.Streaming payments are real. Software-as-a-subscription isbecoming software-as-a-stream. The buy button is being retiredin real time.Aman Narain and Zubin Vandrevala close out the anniversaryDouble Digest with part two: how money moves when the buyeris no longer human. The 2026 Agentic Stack refreshed, thefour horsemen of agentic commerce mapped, the dark horse fromChina called, the streaming-payments primitive that isquietly rewiring every business model in the next five years,and a six-twelve-twenty-four-month playbook for operators.Key takeaways:1. The buy button is being replaced by the Machine Payments   Protocol, Stripe and Tempo's \"OAuth for money\" primitive.2. The four horsemen are playing distinct hands: Stripe wants   the rails, OpenAI wants the brain, Google wants to protect   search, Visa and Mastercard are fighting to remain a rail   rather than the rail.3. Streaming payments end batch settlement; software-as-a-   subscription becomes software-as-a-stream.4. The operator playbook is fix data hygiene first, pick a   protocol stack second, reimagine for streaming third.5. Stripe is not the next Visa. Stripe is the next Google.Topics covered:- The 2026 Agentic Stack: discovery, execution, safety- ACP and UCP, the two protocols solving merchant-to-agent  discovery- MPP, the Machine Payments Protocol, and why it is becoming  the TCP/IP of agent payments- Verifiable Credentials, Verifiable Intent, and the agent as  an actor with reputation- One in six AI sign-ups being a bad actor, and the rise of  token theft as...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7Qyf0xWmHeg7LEUFCI-k-jpWOtyK3SxMMPFnu7Noa5M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ODdh/NDVjNDFmYzZiMzFj/OWY5MzM3YjExNDAw/YTQ4NC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}