Agentic Standards: Platform Opportunities and Platform Solutions

The development of open agentic commerce protocols—notably the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP)—represent an expected and necessary alternative to the early, essentially proprietary solutions. The flurry of 2025 announcements regarding AI-enabled agentic commerce represented merely opening bids to create standardization across a barely emerging ecosystem. UCP and ACP take the next step, and the shift is a critical one.

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Amazon, eBay, FIS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Shopify, Stripe, Target, Walmart, Worldpay