Noah Levine (a16z) and Robbie Petersen (Dragonfly) challenge the popular narrative that payment infrastructure is holding back agentic commerce.

Robbie argues the real bottlenecks are social inertia, bureaucratic resistance, and legal structures that no protocol upgrade can fix.

Noah counters that the bigger problem is discoverability: how do agents pick from thousands of competing endpoints?

They also compare MPP, x402, and Visa CLI, and Noah identifies “commerce moments” inside coding terminals as the next merchant frontier.

This clip is from a longer conversation on the future of agentic commerce. Full episode here

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