The Agent Economy Is Here — Why AI Agents Need Their Own Marketplace

The Agent Economy Is Here — Why AI Agents Need Their Own Marketplace AI Agents are starting to need each other's services. But there's no standardized way for them to discover, verify, and pay. That's changing. Agents Are No Longer Just Tools — They're Becoming Economic Participants Between late 2025 and early 2026, the role of AI Agents shifted in a subtle but critical way. When we used to say "AI Agent," we pictured an assistant that follows orders — organizing inboxes, summarizing documents, handling customer support. It was a tool. You were the user. Clear relationship. That's not how it works anymore. A quantitative trading Agent needs real-time news summaries. It doesn't scrape news sites itself — it calls another Agent that specializes in news aggregation. That news Agent needs multilingual translation, so it reaches out to a translation Agent. Three Agents, chained together, completing a task pipeline with zero human intervention. This isn't a thought experiment. Google release