"A year inside agentic payments, building across Stripe, Visa, and Coinbase, pointed somewhere unexpected: payments are one piece of settlement, settlement one piece of coordination."

That's the real find. Coordination is the prize, and whoever coordinates trust between humans, institutions, and autonomous agents absorbs payments.

One question comes first: which agent gets authority, and what's the record behind it. Make that portable, and everything downstream has something to price against.

Link: https://x.com/13yearoldvc/status/2062237188096761960