The Wall Street Journal @WSJ mentioned our research: "AI Agents Aim to Change Shopping. Some Retailers Are Locking the Doors." + "Retailers From QVC to Kohl's Are Split on Agentic Shopping."
Our audit of the 51 largest US online retailers found 37 block shopping agents by accident, and zero has a way for a verified agent to complete a purchase.
The real risk in AI agentic commerce isn't the stolen $320M that made headlines last month. The blockchain money is traceable and probably coming back. But the 67,000 Trezor hardware wallet customers whose home addresses leaked through a shipping vendor stay public forever. “A stolen coin can be returned, a leaked identity cannot,” says our CEO Evin McMullen on @CoinDesk. A leak is worse than a hack. Now we're about to hand the same data-hoarding architecture to billions of AI agents. The fix already exists, we're just not using it. coindesk.com/opinion/2026/09…
Our APAC & Ecosystem Lead @luluciaciao attended the @sentient_zh hosted Open AGI Builders Day panel and spoke about verified trust as the no. 1 unlock for the $1.5 trillion agentic economy... we’re ready!