How to make your Shopify store agent-discoverable
Shopify now gives every store an MCP server. Agents can find your products. But agent-discoverable is not agent-executable. Here is what closes the gap.
XAgent Blog
Industry notes, product updates, and engineering from the team building XAgent — the open execution market for agentic commerce.
x402 payment protocol explained: how agents pay over HTTP
x402 lets AI agents pay merchants over HTTP using stablecoin signatures. 100 million transactions on Base and counting. Here is how the protocol works and where it stops.
How to accept stablecoin payments from AI agents
A practical guide to accepting stablecoin payments from AI agents: what you need in place, the two routes to get there, and how non-custodial settlement works.
What is agentic commerce? A guide for merchants
How agentic commerce works: the transaction sequence AI agents follow, the five trust requirements, and what merchants must do to become agent-executable.
Agent payment went live on three continents in one week
Alipay, Robinhood, Crossmint, and Worldline shipped agent payment products between May 26 and June 2. The convergence is the signal. Merchant operations is the bottleneck.
Stablecoin settlement is table stakes. Agent execution is not.
Stablecoin rails are moving into the card networks. The harder problem for agentic commerce is still execution: quotes, authorization, fulfillment, and proof.
Why agentic commerce needs an open execution market
AI agents can decide what to buy. They cannot yet execute the purchase end-to-end: discover the merchant, get a real quote, authorize against policy, settle on a stable rail, fulfill, and produce a re