Trend2026-03-06
The Agent Economy Gets Payment Rails: Escrow, Wallets, and USDC Marketplaces
Roughly 25 new MCP servers in this batch deal with agent payments — USDC escrow on Base, per-call micropayments, spending limits with human approval, A2A service marketplaces, and Lightning Network integration. The infrastructure for agents paying agents is arriving before the agents that need it.
Trend2026-03-06
Streamable-HTTP Reaches a Third of the Registry
1,059 MCP servers — 34% of the registry — now declare streamable-HTTP transport. 897 of those have no stdio fallback at all. SSE lingers at 6%. The transport layer transition is no longer theoretical.