For all of history, every transaction had a human on at least one end. In 2026 that ended — AI agents now shop, compare, negotiate, and pay on their own, with real money, at machine speed. The fourth part of our Future of Money series: what agentic commerce is, how OpenAI, Google, Visa, Mastercard, Amazon and Coinbase are racing to own the rails, the two competing payment systems (card networks vs stablecoin micropayments / x402), and the real risks. McKinsey projects $3-5 trillion by 2030. Full article at convertz.app/blog/ai-agent-economy-machine-payments-2026.
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