Agent Commerce Weekly: Weekly intelligence on MCP, x402, and AI agents

Agent Commerce Weekly started from a specific frustration: the infrastructure for autonomous agent payments is being built right now, largely in public, with almost no dedicated technical coverage. x402 volume on Base spiked 10,780% in a single month in late 2025. AWS, Visa, Google, Stripe, Mastercard, Cloudflare, and Shopify are all x402 Foundation members. Seven payment protocols are competing for the agent commerce layer and they are not converging cleanly. Builders making integration decisions today are doing it without a clear picture of which standards will hold. What ACW covers every week: Protocol analysis: where x402, ACP, UCP, TAP, A2A, AdCP, and ARTF actually stand technically On-chain metrics: transaction data and network activity worth tracking Builder spotlights: who is shipping and what they are learning Regulatory watch: OFAC, AML, and EFTA questions most teams are not watching yet No crypto price takes. No AI hype. The technical layer, weekly. Issue #0 is live at agentcommerceweekly.com. Would genuinely value feedback from anyone building on MCP or x402 — what are you seeing that we should be covering?