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settlement economics
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Settlement economics on WindowsForum.com covers the financial infrastructure and competitive dynamics behind AI-driven payment systems. Discussions focus on how different strategies, such as Google's open protocol coalition versus Stripe's integrated stack, aim to control the settlement layer for agentic commerce. Key themes include the battle for transaction tollbooths, stablecoin orchestration, and the economic implications of these competing models for future digital payments.
The race over how AI will spend our money is no longer hypothetical — it is a full‑scale industrial contest. In the past 12 months two very different strategies have emerged: Google and a 60‑plus partner coalition publishing an open protocol that stitches AI into existing payment rails, and...