Stripe Founders Outline Gradual Agentic Commerce Evolution

Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison outline a five-level, gradual evolution toward agentic commerce in their annual letter last week, cautioning against utopian expectations. Analyst forecasts, including a Boston Consulting Group survey and a McKinsey report, suggest potential impacts from $1.3 trillion to as much as $5 trillion globally by 2030. Startup Circuit & Chisel raised $19.2 million in September to build an agent transaction protocol (ATXP).