Circuit & Chisel has raised $19.2M to build ATXP, a protocol enabling AI agents to autonomously navi...
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The article signals a shift in the agentic economy where agents move from being users of tools to becoming the primary target customers via autonomous payment protocols.
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Circuit & Chisel has raised $19.2M to build ATXP, a protocol enabling AI agents to autonomously navigate the web and execute payments from discovery to transaction without human oversight. Founded by two former Stripe crypto executives, the startup counts Stripe, Samsung Next, Coinbase Ventures, and Solana Ventures among its backers as it competes with Google's AP2 and Coinbase's x402 in the emerging agentic payments infrastructure race. The most striking signal: AI agents are now autonomously signing up for ATXP themselves, marking a pivotal shift where agents become the target customers rather than humans. This infrastructure layer could become as foundational to autonomous commerce as HTTP is to web browsing.
