The A2A (Agent-to-Agent) Protocol: How Agents Delegate to Each Other, and Where Payments Plug In
- whackur
- Blockchain
- August 27, 2026
Every time this blog has covered x402, UCP and MPP or Know Your Agent, the term “A2A” showed up as an assumption. An agent hands work to another agent, pays for it, checks who the counterparty is. All of that sits on a lower layer: how do two agents talk in the first place? The attempt to standardize that layer is the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol.
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