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AI agents will be a big part of how we shop in the not-so-distant future. To help lay the groundwork, we partnered with Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart to create the Universal Commerce Protocol, a new open standard for agents and systems to talk to each other across every step of the shopping journey. And coming soon, UCP will power native checkout so you can buy directly on AI Mode and the @Geminiapp.

Why x402 and Micropayments are the Real Crypto-Native Play👊 1) Why is everyone so hyped about stablecoin projects? 2) I think if you look at Web2 + Web3, the one application/sector that doesn’t require deep technical understanding and has the lowest user barrier is—Payment. 3) Structural improvements or discovering new markets around payment are massive opportunities. 4) Let’s take Klarna, the Swedish BNPL company, as an example. Even though opinions about the company vary, BNPL as a fintech model has grown fast—threatening traditional card networks. (x.com/beaniemaxi/sta…) 5) If we say stablecoin projects are fundamentally improving global payment rails (like wire transfers) through blockchain, 6) then the truly crypto-native market opportunity, in my opinion, is Micropayments. 7) It’s essential not just for users, but for the upcoming AI Agent era. 8) Do you really think today’s LLM-based agents are the final form? Right now, onchain agents can only handle blockchain-native transactions, but— 9) Imagine this: you tell a robot to go buy bread. How will it pay? It’ll have a wallet built-in and use something like x402. 10) That’s why micropayments fit perfectly with x402. 11) Why now? Well, even today, some agents running in prediction markets already use x402 for payments. 12) If you’re bullish on Agent Economics → you’re bullish on Micropayments. 13) If you’re bullish on Prediction Markets → you’re bullish on Micropayments. 14) If you’re bullish on Robotics → you’re bullish on Micropayments. → The numbers are bound to go up. For now, we have narrowed our focus to a shortlist of meaningful candidates. However, our conviction remains exceptionally high for the sector as a whole. While the ultimate winner is yet to be determined, we believe this field holds High potential as the agentic economy continues to scale $VIRTUAL $KITE $UB $PAYAI $DEXTER $SANTA $DREAMS