Metea publishes Universal Commerce and Agent Payments protocols

The author provides a guide to the agent protocol landscape by exploring two newer standards for agentic commerce and payments: the Universal Commerce Protocol and the Agent Payments Protocol. The post details how these protocols handle merchant discovery, capability negotiation, session states, and cryptographically signed mandates to secure AI-driven transactions. Additionally, the author introduces new Python and Google Agent Development Kit samples designed to demonstrate these workflows. Open article →