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The line includes the day that page was read.","Mixed":"The note has both a documented claim and a not documented claim.","Omitted":"This note has no checked source for that dimension."},"dimensions":[{"id":"settlement-asset","label":"Settlement asset"},{"id":"spend-controls","label":"Spend controls"},{"id":"revocation","label":"Revocation"},{"id":"protocol-composition","label":"Protocol composition"},{"id":"license","label":"License"},{"id":"governance-body","label":"Governance body"},{"id":"cross-company-use","label":"Cross-company use"}],"updated":"2026-10-21","notes":[{"slug":"a2a","name":"A2A","listing_url":"https://theagenteconomy.si/listings/a2a","note_url":"https://theagenteconomy.si/gaps/a2a","checked":"2026-10-21","dimensions":[{"id":"settlement-asset","label":"Settlement asset","documented":[],"not_documented":[{"text":"Not documented as of 2026-10-21. 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The same page states the Apache License 2.0. The GitHub license API also reported Apache-2.0 for a2aproject/A2A on 2026-10-21.","source_url":"https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/","source_title":"A2A protocol site","as_of":"2026-10-21"}],"not_documented":[]},{"id":"governance-body","label":"Governance body","documented":[{"text":"The project site says A2A was developed by Google, donated to the Linux Foundation, and is maintained by a Technical Steering Committee.","source_url":"https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/","source_title":"A2A protocol site","as_of":"2026-10-21"}],"not_documented":[]},{"id":"cross-company-use","label":"Cross-company use","documented":[{"text":"The project site says A2A was developed by Google, donated to the Linux Foundation, and is maintained by a Technical Steering Committee.","source_url":"https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/","source_title":"A2A protocol site","as_of":"2026-10-21"}],"not_documented":[]}]},{"slug":"agentic-commerce-protocol","name":"Agentic Commerce Protocol","listing_url":"https://theagenteconomy.si/listings/agentic-commerce-protocol","note_url":"https://theagenteconomy.si/gaps/agentic-commerce-protocol","checked":"2026-10-21","dimensions":[{"id":"settlement-asset","label":"Settlement asset","documented":[],"not_documented":[{"text":"Not documented as of 2026-10-21. The page describes delegated payment tokens and does not fix one settlement asset. The getting started guide says payment flows to the merchant.","source_url":"https://docs.stripe.com/agentic-commerce/protocols/acp","source_title":"Stripe documentation for the Agentic Commerce Protocol","as_of":"2026-10-21"}]},{"id":"spend-controls","label":"Spend controls","documented":[{"text":"Per payment cap: Yes. max_amount is the maximum charge for that one time allowance.","source_url":"https://www.agenticcommerce.dev/docs/reference/payments","source_title":"ACP delegate payment","as_of":"2026-10-20"},{"text":"Payee or protocol allowlist: Partial. merchant_id names the one merchant that may use the token.","source_url":"https://www.agenticcommerce.dev/docs/reference/payments","source_title":"ACP delegate payment","as_of":"2026-10-20"}],"not_documented":[{"text":"Not documented as of 2026-10-20. Period budget. The allowance reason is one_time and it has an expiry. 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The repository README and the Stripe ACP page checked on 2026-10-21 do not say ACP implements UCP, MCP, A2A, AP2, or x402.","source_url":"https://github.com/agentic-commerce-protocol/agentic-commerce-protocol","source_title":"Agentic Commerce Protocol repository","as_of":"2026-10-21"}]},{"id":"license","label":"License","documented":[{"text":"Apache-2.0. The repository README states the Apache 2.0 License. The GitHub license API reported Apache-2.0 on 2026-10-21.","source_url":"https://github.com/agentic-commerce-protocol/agentic-commerce-protocol","source_title":"Agentic Commerce Protocol repository","as_of":"2026-10-21"}],"not_documented":[]},{"id":"governance-body","label":"Governance body","documented":[{"text":"The repository says OpenAI and Stripe are the founding maintainers.","source_url":"https://github.com/agentic-commerce-protocol/agentic-commerce-protocol","source_title":"Agentic Commerce Protocol repository","as_of":"2026-10-21"},{"text":"Stripe's documentation says the protocol was created by Stripe, OpenAI, and Meta.","source_url":"https://docs.stripe.com/agentic-commerce/protocols/acp","source_title":"Stripe documentation for the Agentic Commerce Protocol","as_of":"2026-10-21"}],"not_documented":[]},{"id":"cross-company-use","label":"Cross-company use","documented":[{"text":"Stripe's documentation says the protocol was created by Stripe, OpenAI, and Meta.","source_url":"https://docs.stripe.com/agentic-commerce/protocols/acp","source_title":"Stripe documentation for the Agentic Commerce Protocol","as_of":"2026-10-21"}],"not_documented":[]}]},{"slug":"ap2","name":"AP2","listing_url":"https://theagenteconomy.si/listings/ap2","note_url":"https://theagenteconomy.si/gaps/ap2","checked":"2026-10-21","dimensions":[{"id":"settlement-asset","label":"Settlement asset","documented":[{"text":"Credit and debit cards in the initial version. 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The release says the platform works across any protocol or payment rail and does not name a settlement asset.","source_url":"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/beltic-emerges-from-stealth-to-secure-autonomous-agent-transactions-at-scale-302893772.html","source_title":"Beltic press release, 2026-09-30","as_of":"2026-10-21"},{"text":"Not documented as of 2026-10-21. The page does not name a settlement asset.","source_url":"https://www.beltic.com/","source_title":"Beltic site","as_of":"2026-10-21"},{"text":"Not documented as of 2026-10-21. The page does not name a settlement asset.","source_url":"https://kya-docs.beltic.app/docs/sdk-guide","source_title":"Beltic KYA TypeScript SDK","as_of":"2026-10-21"}]},{"id":"spend-controls","label":"Spend controls","documented":[{"text":"The site describes a policy engine whose rules can deny an action. 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