Agent Payments Drifting From Cards to Permission Tokens
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The current trajectory of agentic commerce is focused on establishing agent identity before addressing the complexities of payment. We saw this with the retirement of the ACP Instant Checkout in March 2026 and the subsequent shift toward deferred payment models like PAP v0.1. The latest attempts to bridge this gap suggest that the future of agent payments may not rely on traditional card rails at all, but rather on permission-token models that treat budgets as revocable, server-enforced constraints. Recent demonstrations from Nevermined provide a concrete look at how this functions in practice.
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