Is crypto needed to protect the security of AI agents paying each other online?
Is crypto needed to protect the security of AI agents paying each other online?
This article delves into the intersection of AI and decentralized technology, examining whether cryptocurrency is essential for securing payments and interactions between AI agents in the rapidly evolving landscape of agentic commerce. It highlights the progress of major players like Anthropic and Google in developing protocols that facilitate AI application communication and data exchange.
The infrastructure race for agentic commerce is already producing winners. Anthropic's Model Context Protocol now runs on more than 10,000 public servers and pulls 97 million monthly SDK downloads, connecting AI applications to external tools and data. Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol launched in April 2025 with 50 partners and scaled to more than 100 supporting companies […]