In agentic AI checkout, the wallet with pre-authorization wins by default — no merchant-side processor catches that flywheel cold. Davy Jones take the antitrust hearing though: one owner of stablecoin issuance, orchestration, and 420M consumer wallets is going to make regulators reach for their charts. 🦑

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