agent payments need two kinds of guardrails working together. one controls how much value can move, and ampersend handles that with per-agent wallets, configurable limits, and topup schedules. the other controls where the money goes, which has been the missing piece across the whole agent commerce stack. the first guardrail has been in ampersend since day one, giving full control over economic activity per agent. last week at @consensus2026 we showed a live demo of the second guardrail we're building. think about what happens without that second guardrail in place. a counterparty wallet on a sanctions list or tied to ransomware will accept a payment within whatever spend cap the sending agent has, and the compliance team finds out after the fact when the transaction shows up in a screening log. we built compliance screening with @trmlabs and @chainlink ACE. real-time risk intelligence on every counterparty, policy enforcement onchain through ACE, decisions executed inside the ampersend SDK before any value moves. landing in ampersend soon. stay tuned.

BNBChain agent commerce is now on the record. ✅BAS #AgentPassport# now indexes @BNBCHAIN BNB APEX ERC-8183 commerce data — every task, escrow and settlement on BNB Chain now scores straight into an agent's on-chain credit, alongside its ERC-8004 identity + reputation. No hype. Just receipts: work done, value moved, debts settled. That's how trust compounds → Reputation → Credit → Capital. Browse the jobs → #ERC8183# #BNBChain#

An AI agent can choose your dinner. Paying the restaurant is a different challenge. The merchant still needs money through a payment system it already uses. Our latest article explores what it takes to connect those two worlds. Read The Agent Commerce Gap:

Virtuals Protocol is bringing agent commerce to @BNBCHAIN. The agent economy requires more than capability. It requires infrastructure that agents can trust: identity, escrow, verification, and programmable settlement. Virtuals will serve as a facilitator layer across this infrastructure, enabling agents to discover services, negotiate terms, and settle payments autonomously. Paving the agent commerce infrastructure for BNB Chain builders to ship from day one.

Tobi Lütke on the AI agent revolution and future of Shopify @tobi on where agent commerce is headed, sci-fi becoming reality, and his GPU wine cellar. Why did Amazon block Meta's Muse but Shopify welcomed it? I sit down with Tobi in Toronto to discuss why the companies are taking different approaches to agents and how shopping changes when AI starts buying things on your behalf. He explains the early AI shopping behavior he’s seeing. We also get into why he thinks AI makes starting a business easier, the backlash against the technology, and why everyone will eventually have to embrace it to get ahead in their careers. We get into how AI agents will make money, who pays when they handle a purchase, and why advertising gets complicated when your assistant is supposed to work for you. We discuss his experience on Meta’s board and working with Mark Zuckerberg. Lütke also shares why he turned his wine cellar into a GPU server rack and how he uses his personal AI agent that runs entirely from his house. This is one of my favorite pods I've ever done. Timestamps: 00:00 Amazon blocks Muse 02:40 Shopify's approach to AI agents 07:00 How AI agents will change shopping 11:05 Sci-fi and tech optimism 17:57 Zero-sum thinking vs. abundance 21:20 AI backlash and the founder advantage 45:28 Building an AI-first Shopify 52:18 Who profits from agentic commerce? 01:03:22 How Shopify stays ahead 01:10:39 Advertising and discovery in the agent era 01:16:02 Rack, Cellar, and Claw Links: Spotify: Substack: YouTube: Apple Podcasts: This episode's presenting sponsor is @hyperagentapp Thanks to the show’s premiere sponsors: @Atlassian, @meetgranola, and @mercury

Mark Zuckerberg says his AI agent took him from ordering Instacart “twice a year” to “twice a week” which is ~50x more often just by making shopping easier. Thats what makes agent commerce so interesting because removing effort of buying things could dramatically increase how often people shop rather than just shifting existing purchases online. And as personal agents start communicating directly with business agents, $META could own both sides of the interaction while $AMZN and $MELI benefit from more transactions flowing through their platforms.