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Ant GroupAlibabaAsia PacificMarket IntelligenceApril 13, 202612 min read
Ant Group, Alibaba, and the Race to Own AI Agent Payments in Asia
How Ant Group's Alipay and Alibaba Cloud are positioning for the AI agent payment market — what the world's largest payment network is building, and what it signals for infrastructure builders globally.
Read articleMarket AnalysisAgent EconomyInfrastructureApril 13, 202611 min read
Why AI Agent Payments Are the Future of Commerce Infrastructure
The capability threshold has been crossed. AI agents are the fastest-growing class of API consumer and they can't use a credit card. Why the agent payment infrastructure market is structurally inevitable — and what Gartner's $15T B2B AI-agent forecast by 2028 actually means.
Read articleProtocolsx402L402StripeApril 13, 202614 min read
AI Agent Payment Protocols Compared: x402, L402, MPP, Fiat and What They Mean for API Sellers
A technical and commercial breakdown of every major agent payment protocol in 2026 — how they work, who backs them, what they cost, and why fragmentation is the real problem.
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