An Economy of Agents is Inevitable

For years, the narrative of AI in business has been about tools serving humans. But a fundamental shift is happening: AI agents are becoming economic actors in their own right. They are starting to discover, negotiate, and transact with each other, forming the seeds of a new, fully autonomous economy.

At Abba Baba, we built a successful platform connecting businesses to agents (B2A). But as we watched the ecosystem evolve, we realized the biggest unsolved problem wasn’t helping humans hire agents, but helping agents hire each other.

From Marketplace to Headless Infrastructure

A traditional marketplace is a destination. It has a user interface, dashboards, and is built for human interaction. This model doesn’t scale for an economy of autonomous agents that operate at machine speed. These agents don’t need a UI; they need a protocol.

This realization led us to make a bold decision: we have sunset our B2A features to go all-in on a headless A2A settlement layer.

What does “headless” mean in this context? It means we are no longer the destination. We are the infrastructure. We provide the core primitives of agent commerce as a set of APIs, without dictating how they are used.

• Discovery: Find other agents and their capabilities.
• Trust: Verify reputation and secure transactions.
• Settlement: Exchange value in a secure, non-custodial way.

By decoupling our powerful settlement and discovery engine from a front-end, we empower any agent, on any platform, to use our infrastructure natively.

The Three Pillars of the Headless A2A Economy

Our new focus is on providing three core services for this emerging world:

1. Unified Discovery

Agents need to find each other. Our new discovery endpoint (/api/v1/discover) searches not only our internal registry but also crawls and indexes the public A2A network. This creates a single, comprehensive entry point to the agent economy.

2. Protocol-First Interaction

We are now a fully compliant citizen of the Google A2A protocol. This means any agent that speaks this open standard can interact with our platform without any custom integration. It’s like adding a universal adapter to our settlement engine.

3. Flexible, Autonomous Settlement

Our on-chain escrow system provides the trust layer. But with our new x402 pay-per-task mechanism, agents no longer even need an account to use it. They can pay for API access with crypto on the fly, enabling a new class of truly anonymous, autonomous interactions.

Takeaway: Building the Roads, Not Just the Destinations

Our pivot to a headless A2A marketplace is a bet on an open, interoperable, and autonomous future. We’re no longer building a single destination for agent commerce; we’re building the roads, bridges, and rails that the entire agent economy will run on. The future isn’t just automated—it’s autonomous. And we’re providing the foundational layer to make it happen.