Lessons learned from agentic commerce discussions

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Stripe Sessions is a great event. The density of people genuinely thinking about agent-to-API payments is unmatched. Practitioners, builders, infrastructure folks, and payments leaders are all in the room together, and the on-stage discourse has moved a long way in twelve months. The room has clearly internalized that agents are economic actors, not just clients of an API.

So this isn’t a critique. It’s a set of notes from sitting in those conversations and asking what the agenda looks like a year from now. Five themes stood out as undercovered today and likely to dominate next time. They’re the gaps OnDB is built around, so I’m biased. But they’re also the gaps a security and data person walks in and sees immediately.

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Lessons learned from agentic commerce discussions