AI Economic Settlement Protocol AEON Launches Agentic Checkout

AEON, an AI economic settlement protocol, has introduced Agentic Checkout, enabling AI agents to search, select, and purchase products across Shopify's merchant ecosystem via natural language. Payments are facilitated by the AEON AI Card, a virtual card that allows users to set spending limits and authorization scopes, ensuring AI agents can complete transactions without accessing primary wallets or cards. The service currently supports over 3 million Shopify stores and 1 billion products, with plans to integrate Claude-based e-commerce agents and expand to