Rain’s Agentic Payments Alliance Is Writing Agent Commerce Standards While Congress Stalls
The future of money is being written in the plumbing, not the halls of Congress. On August 18, 2026, Rain launched the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA), a coalition of 26 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, Circle, Solana, and others, all aiming to define the rules for agentic commerce. The industry is essentially treating the […]
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