Economics & Finance
Platform-Level Payment Automation
As transaction counterparties shift from humans to agents and transaction frequency scales from monthly to sub-second intervals, traditional manual review, reconciliation, and settlement workflows become bottlenecks. The system naturally evolves toward a 'payments-as-infrastructure' architecture—embedding payment logic directly into the platform's interaction layer rather than isolating it as a separate backend function.
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