Agent Identity Is the New Control Plane. Enterprise Security Just Figured It Out.

Two articles dropped today that, taken together, tell a very clear story about where agentic commerce is headed. The Infrastructure Is Done Insignia Business Review published a deep analysis of the MCP + A2A + x402 stack — the three protocols that give agents tools (MCP), coordination (A2A), and payments (x402). Their conclusion: these are no longer experiments. They're production infrastructure. The numbers back it up: 69,000 active agents on x402 165 million transactions processed $50 million