March 22, 2026 ·
Curious vibes in the world of agentic commerce lately. AI agents doing commerce seemed something far in the future but protocol fights happening now between Coinbase, Stripe etc. makes it seem closer. It is interesting that Stripe made their own chain and agent-commerce protocol instead of using Ethereum or Solana. Makes me think how in the 2010s big players wanted to make their own cloud infrastructure vs. using AWS or Google Cloud and what not. I should experiment with Tempo and see what it's like.
Separately within Ethereum there is unrest and criticism of Vitalik for not being too supportive of winning DeFi market share; the blame being that he's more interested in cypherpunk ideology branding than finance. I trust Vitalik's wisdom but time will tell how this ends up. Writing this as a bookmark to come back to it in the future.
Title inspired by the comment section of this article that I found interesting
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