AI agents need identity, credit and atomic settlement, not human buttons
LexSokolin · x · 2026-07-24
Financial rails were designed for humans clicking buttons, but AI agents need a different stack: programmatic identity, onchain credit, and atomic settlement.
The post argues that the companies building those primitives today are laying the groundwork for a Visa-like layer for agentic commerce.
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