monthly_brief
Discovery and conformance start to matter more than net-new protocols
By late summer 2026 the bottleneck for machine sellers was less “is there a protocol?” and more “can a buyer complete discover → 402 → pay → retry → verify?” Schema-invalid challenges and stale indexes were the practical failures.
Why it matters
Watch buyer-conformance, index freshness and facilitator auth — Foundry’s own 13/13 indexed estate is one data point, not the market.
Source: zFinia retrospective synthesis