Anthropic shipped an open-source commerce agent blueprint that deliberately excludes a payment protocol, a catalog and an ad layer — the shopping brain without the wallet. Seven days later Mastercard launched Agent Connect to be exactly that wallet. Meanwhile Visa's own CEO told investors 75% of consumers distrust agents spending their money.
We cover what the blueprint includes and what it pointedly leaves out, how Verifiable Intent answers the trust problem technically, and why the two halves of this story run on completely different clocks.
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