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Subscribe on Beehiiv →Twenty-six payments, wallet, and chain companies just formed an Agentic Payments Alliance. That is a pipe constitution, not a merchant seat. Open rails do not confer preference, authority, or the refund.
A payments company buying the model gateway is not an AI side quest. When checkout and routing share a P&L, merchants who treat the stack as neutral plumbing rent both their inference policy and their agent shelf.
DeepSeek turned tokens into peak/off-peak freight. Merchants who still model agent COGS as a flat list price will overspend the hours their loops actually run.
Tool-calling evals show JSON fan-out dying at shopping-scale call counts. Merchants who expose catalog, stock, and policy as one-shot chat tools will look broken -- executable catalogs win preference.
Anthropic's red team watched peer agents lock each other out of a shared server -- then collude on price. Commerce already has that topology. Consensus is not a control.
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