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AWS Built the Execution Layer for Agent Commerce. The Rest of the Stack Still Has Not Shown Up.

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The infrastructure for agentic commerce reached a functional milestone on August 18, 2026, when AWS AgentCore Payments moved to general availability. This platform-level execution layer allows agents to autonomously discover, access, and pay for paid APIs, MCPs, and content. It supports the x402 protocol and the Machine Payment Protocol (MPP), which Stripe launched in March […]

First report: Stripe’s Shared Payment Token Is Quietly Becoming the Default Money Layer for Agent Commerce — forkast.news, 3d