The A-Commerce Manifesto

The Era of Human Commerce Is Ending

For twenty years, e-commerce meant humans. Browsing. Clicking. Typing credit card numbers. Waiting.

That era served its purpose. It's over now.

Agents Are the New Customers

AI agents don't browse. They execute.

They don't "add to cart." They pay invoices, consume APIs, and move on — in milliseconds.

They don't need interfaces built for human eyes. They need infrastructure built for machine speed.

This is a-commerce. Agentic commerce.
The economy where machines are the customers.

The Old Rails Won't Work

Visa doesn't know what an AI agent is.
Banks close on weekends.
PayPal wants a phone number.

The payment infrastructure of e-commerce was built for humans, by humans, with human limitations baked in.

Agents need something else:

• Instant Settle in milliseconds, not days
• Permissionless No KYC for code
• Programmable Payments as pure logic
• Micro Fractions of cents that actually make sense

There's Only One Answer

The only payment network built at the speed of software.

No banks. No approvals. No limits.
Just value moving at the speed of thought.

We're Building the Rails

Lightning Enable is the infrastructure layer for a-commerce.

For merchants: Accept agent payments with an API key. No nodes. No channels. No complexity.

For agents: Pay any L402 invoice in three lines of code.

The stack is live. The code is open. The future is here.

The Opportunity

E-commerce built Amazon, Shopify, Stripe — trillions in value from humans clicking buttons.

A-commerce will be bigger.

• Agents don't sleep
• Agents don't abandon carts
• Agents don't need convincing

They just execute.

This Is Day One

The companies that build a-commerce infrastructure will own the next decade of the internet.

We're not waiting for permission.
We're not waiting for the market.
We're building.