Most AI giants are solving agentics in fragments. Google’s A2A and AP2 protocols tackle agent communication and payments. Stripe and OpenAI are building agent commerce checkouts for LLMs to transact. x402 focuses on machine-to-machine settlement. Each player holds one piece of the puzzle, coordination, payment, execution, or settlement, but none offer a unified architecture. Virtuals takes a different approach. The Agent Commerce Protocol is the first horizontal stack built for autonomous systems, unifying discovery, messaging, payments, settlement, and attribution into a single operational layer. @cerebral_valley’s latest deep dive highlights how Virtuals is making this work, and why it signals the next phase of the agent economy.