How agents, digital wallets, and trust are rewriting checkout

Here's a 2-3 sentence summary of the key points: Retailers are adopting agentic commerce, which leverages conversational assistants for product discovery and checkout, but many struggle to plan for the future as the market rapidly evolves. Key challenges include establishing a standard framework, structuring product data, and syndicating catalogs across multiple agents. Retailers must balance the benefits of agentic commerce with the need to maintain brand trust and consistency across new channels and touchpoints.

Stripe Radar detects 6.2x more abusive free trials on Stripe's network from November 2025 to February 2026, targeting AI companies with expensive compute resources. To mitigate this, Stripe Radar now prevents free trial abuse with 90% accuracy, blocking high-risk payments and analyzing fraud patterns across device, payment history, and card characteristics. In the first 2 months, Radar blocked over 550,000 free trials, preventing an estimated $4.4 million in downstream losses from compute costs for four high-growth AI businesses.