On the agentic economy, agent commerce protocols, and the infrastructure for autonomous agents.
On 2 August 2026 the EU AI Act becomes fully applicable to agent commerce. Reading Art. 50 alone is not enough — the operational rules come from PSD3, eIDAS 2.0, GDPR, MiCA, DSA. Six steps. Three gaps. One deadline.
Read article →Fifty-one published definitions. Zero convergence. Three historical analogs — e-commerce, cloud, the sharing economy — show that definitions stabilize when infrastructure gets built, not when researchers agree. Four tests will tell us when it’s real.
Read article →When an agent pays another agent one cent for a translation, who verifies the quality? Mathematics says you can’t automate it. A two-layer architecture — deterministic validators plus Quality Markets — manages what cannot be solved.
Read article →Amazon reviews are gamed. Now imagine the reviewers are machines that create a thousand identities in seconds. The CRI paper proposes a 10-component reputation score grounded in EigenTrust and Ostrom.
Read article →A taxonomy of 51 definitions — five categories, two fault lines, and why agent-assisted commerce is not the same as an economy of agents.
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