{"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 for\nmost online transactions. The Machine Payments Protocol that\nreplaces the buy button is now live, and Stripe, OpenAI,\nGoogle, Meta and Microsoft have all signed on.\nThis week at Stripe Sessions 2026, the architecture of agentic\ncommerce stopped being a thesis and started being plumbing.\nThe Machine Payments Protocol, co-authored by Stripe and\nTempo, is live. ACP and UCP have settled the discovery layer.\nStreaming payments are real. Software-as-a-subscription is\nbecoming software-as-a-stream. The buy button is being retired\nin real time.\nAman Narain and Zubin Vandrevala close out the anniversary\nDouble Digest with part two: how money moves when the buyer\nis no longer human. The 2026 Agentic Stack refreshed, the\nfour horsemen of agentic commerce mapped, the dark horse from\nChina called, the streaming-payments primitive that is\nquietly rewiring every business model in the next five years,\nand a six-twelve-twenty-four-month playbook for operators.\nKey takeaways:\n1. The buy button is being replaced by the Machine Payments\n   Protocol, Stripe and Tempo's \"OAuth for money\" primitive.\n2. The four horsemen are playing distinct hands: Stripe wants\n   the rails, OpenAI wants the brain, Google wants to protect\n   search, Visa and Mastercard are fighting to remain a rail\n   rather than the rail.\n3. Streaming payments end batch settlement; software-as-a-\n   subscription becomes software-as-a-stream.\n4. The operator playbook is fix data hygiene first, pick a\n   protocol stack second, reimagine for streaming third.\n5. Stripe is not the next Visa. Stripe is the next Google.\nTopics covered:\n- The 2026 Agentic Stack: discovery, execution, safety\n- ACP and UCP, the two protocols solving merchant-to-agent\n  discovery\n- MPP, the Machine Payments Protocol, and why it is becoming\n  the TCP/IP of agent payments\n- Verifiable Credentials, Verifiable Intent, and the agent as\n  an actor with reputation\n- One in six AI sign-ups being a bad...","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}