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Research Notes: The Invisible Bazaar

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A Z Mackay
Mar 16, 2026
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What happens when AI agents start buying and selling things to each other, and we’re not in the room?

Not a hypothetical. Visa is already building agent commerce infrastructure across an ecosystem of over a hundred partners, with payment rails designed for agent-to-agent transactions. PYMNTS reported that commerce is shifting from clicks to prompts, with…

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