McKinsey estimates AI agents could mediate $3-5 trillion in consumer commerce by 2030. Mastercard, XDC, Coinbase, and others are building the payment systems that let software spend money without a human checkout.

Nobody designed the boundary between the part of the system that reasons and the part of it that moves money.

McKinsey estimates AI agents could mediate $3-5 trillion in consumer commerce by 2030. Mastercard, XDC, Coinbase, and others are building the payment systems that let software…