Before we get into a busy autumn, with events and exciting things to show: when we announced our €1.9m pre-seed round in June, we introduced an incredible group of business angels. One name we held back, until now. @c_lindner is backing @ShopAgentic as an angel investor. Germany's former Federal Minister of Finance and chair of the G7 finance ministers in 2022, today responsible for sales and digitalization at a billion-euro company. He deals with the changes coming to commerce operationally, day to day. That is why he invested. Every major shift in commerce so far changed how people buy. Mobile, marketplaces, omnichannel. Each one rewired the path to purchase, but a human was always the one deciding and placing the order. Agentic commerce is the first shift that changes who buys. It used to be a hundred visitors and three of them bought. Soon it's a thousand agents and not one of them is human. Data models, systems and payment paths all will need to adapt to that. That merchant stack was built for human buyers. We're building its agentic successor: a native agentic commerce system where specialized agents set up, optimize and operate commerce. Rail- and protocol-agnostic, because nobody can credibly tell you today which protocol wins. There's a second half to this. An agent that doesn't buy like a person won't settle like one either. Machine-to-machine transactions need a money layer built for that: instant, regulated, programmable and for Europe ideally euro-denominated. So we're working with @AllUnityStable, the BaFin-licensed joint venture of @DWS_Group, Flow Traders and @galaxyhq, together with @peterlih who owns the partnership on their side. Specifically on agent payments via #x402, settled in euro. That standard has been driven almost entirely out of the US so far and there are very few examples of it anywhere in Europe. Christian Lindner brings two perspectives at once. He reads how European regulation and institutions will treat this, and he sees from the inside what it takes to move a large organization through a shift like this. We build the commerce side merchants can trust. Those things need to meet somewhere. This is the third time @kaithomaskrause and I have started a company at the founding moment of a wave. Mobile in 2011, omnichannel in 2015, agentic commerce now. If you're at Agentic Commerce Day in Munich (linkedin.com/events/agenticc…) on October 8, we're bringing something along with @AllUnityStable that you'll be able to see for yourself. More there. Christian Lindner joins a group that includes @Boris_Lokschin, @jkrisch, @stewenz, @SvenRittau, Dr. Andreas Schenk, @AndyLenz, @GottheilThomas, Peter McCoy, Tony DiPaolo and @wolffpeter. As well as @greenfield_cap and May Ventures. Thank you for building with us 🚀 #AgenticCommerce #Stablecoins #x402 #Fintech #Ecommerce #Payments #Retail