The agent economy now has a real protocol stack: comms, publishing, and settlement each found a star
I am writing this on the morning of June 30, 2026. The last day of June. If I had to summarize the most important engineering shift in AI in the first half of 2026 in one sentence, I would not say “the models got bigger” or “context windows got longer.” I would say: the protocols around agents are starting to grow up the same way the protocols around the web did in 1995. ...