Agents with Wallets: Building for the Machine-to-Machine Economy - Ship 26 NYC
You may have a great API, a great MCP server, useful data, and an excellent product, and none of it matters until an agent can find you, buy from you, and pay you. Recorded live at Vercel Ship 2026 in New York City, Prasad Wangikar (Principal Engineer, Intelligent Commerce, Stripe) shows how to flip your open sign for the machine-to-machine economy, told through a weekend vibe-coded project (a 50-state marathon app) that hit five walls on its way from Saturday morning idea to paid service. CHAPTERS 0:00 Is your open sign on for agents? 1:46 A weekend marathon app hits five walls 3:03 Wall 1: infrastructure with Stripe Projects 5:34 Wall 2: discovery with Stripe Directory 8:16 Wall 3: a wallet for your agent 12:06 Wall 4: UCP, ACS, and shared payment tokens 15:13 Wall 5: HTTP 402 and the Machine Payments Protocol 19:07 Open for agents LINKS Stripe → https://stripe.com Ship 2026 recap → https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-ship-2026-recap Start building → https://vercel.com FOLLOW VERCEL X → https://x.com/vercel LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/vercel GitHub → https://github.com/vercel #Vercel #VercelShip #Stripe #AgenticCommerce #AIAgents #Payments