Tag: Agentic Commerce Protocol
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Six Protocols Walk Into a Bar
UCP, ACP, AP2, A2A, MCP, Retail-MCP — six standards fighting to govern agentic commerce. Will cuts through the noise: what each one does, which overlap, wh
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UCP vs. ACP: I Don’t Care Which Protocol Wins, and Neither Should You
Protocol tribalism between UCP and ACP is a developer sport. The contractor doesn’t care if the homeowner found them on Google or ChatGPT. Stop following t
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Will’s Take: The EU Is About to Reshape the Commerce Protocol Wars — and Europe Has Its Own AI Card to Play
The EU’s GDPR, DMA, DSA, and AI Act aren’t theoretical risks — they’re active infrastructure reshaping which commerce protocol wins in Europe. Here’s why UCP holds the better hand, and why Mistral Small 4 just changed the game.
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Agentic Commerce Shifts to Open Standards
Following OpenAI’s deprecation of its proprietary in-chat commerce API in Q4 2024, Mastercard and Mirakl—a Paris-based marketplace platform valued at $1.2B—established the Open Commerce Standards Initiative to implement ISO 20022-compliant real-time payment settlement for AI agents across Shopify, WooCommerce, and custom e-commerce platforms. The initiative adopts W3C Verifiable Credentials and OAuth 2.0 standards to enable…