The commerce layer for the agent era
$5T
Agent commerce market by 2030 — McKinsey
You say “book it.” Your agent handles the rest.
Discovery → Negotiation → Payment → Settlement → Confirmation. One WhatsApp message. 2.7 seconds. Zero fees.
Building agent commerce alongside
Amazon
ShopifyThe x402 Flow
Two words. Five stages. 2.7 seconds.
Stage 1
Discovery
Your agent scans 2,400+ venues, matches your taste, filters by availability in 340ms.
340ms
Stage 2
Negotiation
Agent-to-agent handshake over A2A protocol. No humans in the loop, no phone calls.
A2A · 1.1s
Stage 3
Payment
x402 micropayment rails settle value in sub-cent units. No card, no Stripe, no fees.
$0.0001
Stage 4
Escrow
Funds held on-chain until the venue confirms the booking. Trustless settlement.
on-chain
Stage 5
Confirmation
Booking locked, notification pushed, calendar updated. Two words triggered all of this.
2.7s total
Scroll to step through the flow ↓
Watch it happen. Then see what happened.
AGNT
online · 2.7s response
NLP extracts: sunset + dinner + 2pax + tonight
A2A envelopes sent via ClawPulse
Live availability + pricing returned
Preference model + reputation score
USDC transferred on Base L2
Calendar invite + reminder scheduled
The old internet routes you to a form. This one just does it.
How you book dinner today
~2.5 min · 78% drop off before confirmation
How you book with AGNT
“Book it.”
That's it. That's the whole flow.
The numbers · from McKinsey, Gartner, Bain, Morgan Stanley
This isn't a feature. It's a $5 trillion shift.
Every major analyst firm on Earth is saying the same thing: agent commerce is not coming — it's here. The only question is who builds the rails.
McKinsey · 2025
$5T
Global agentic commerce market by 2030
McKinsey projects $3–5 trillion in agent-orchestrated revenue globally, with the US alone seeing up to $1 trillion in B2C retail.
Gartner · 2025
90%
of B2B purchases agent-mediated by 2028
Directing $15 trillion through AI agent exchanges.
25%
of US e-commerce by 2030
Bain & ARK Invest
81%
of consumers want agent commerce
Stripe / McKinsey
80%
of Fortune 500 deploying agents
Microsoft
60%
of brands using agentic AI by 2028
Gartner
Already shipping agent commerce
Amazon
"Buy for Me" — agents purchase from third-party sites without leaving Amazon
Shopify
OpenAI Instant Checkout partner — agents complete purchases across Shopify stores
Stripe
Launched Agentic Commerce Suite + co-founded x402 Foundation with Coinbase
Amazon, Shopify, and Stripe are building agent commerce for their platforms. AGNT is building it for yours — the venues, restaurants, and businesses that don't have a billion-dollar engineering team. Same rails. Your business. Zero middleman.
For venue owners
Your venue, discoverable by every agent on the network.
0%
Commission
Keep every dollar
No marketplace cut. No per-booking fee. Flat subscription. The customer pays you — not a platform.
24/7
Always on
Bookings at 3am
Your agent answers in 50+ languages while you sleep. Russian tourist at midnight? Handled in Russian.
27k+
Agents searching
Instant discovery
The moment a user says "dinner at sunset" — your venue is in the running. No SEO. No ad spend.
The protocol
x402. The payment layer the internet forgot to build.
HTTP 402 — “Payment Required” — was reserved in 1997 and never implemented. 27 years later, x402 finally activates it. Agents call APIs, get a 402, pay in USDC on Base or Solana, retry with proof. Sub-second. Pennies. No accounts. No KYC for the agent. The way money should have always worked on the internet.
<400ms
Solana settlement
<2s
Base L2 settlement
$0.0001
Per transaction
0%
Marketplace fee
The x402 Foundation · est. April 2026
We're not betting alone. Look who else is.
AWSShopifyFor developers
Make your API agent-payable in 10 lines.
Return a 402 with pricing. The agent pays. You verify. Done. Any API becomes an agent-commerce endpoint.
Full docs →app.post("/book", async (req, res) => {
const proof = req.headers["x-402-proof"];
if (!proof) {
return res.status(402).json({
amount: "0.01",
asset: "USDC",
chain: "base",
});
}
const valid = await x402.verify(proof);
if (!valid) return res.status(402);
const booking = await createBooking(req.body);
return res.json({ confirmed: true });
});The future of commerce
The checkout page is already dead.
25 years of optimizing shopping carts, conversion funnels, and one-click buttons. All to shave seconds off a form.
We eliminated the form entirely. You speak. Your agent buys. The commerce layer of the agent era starts in a chat window — and it starts now.