Is crypto needed to protect the security of AI agents paying each other online?

The infrastructure race for agentic commerce is already producing winners. Anthropic's Model Context Protocol now runs on more than 10,000 public servers and pulls 97 million monthly SDK downloads, connecting AI applications to external tools and data. source: https://cryptoslate.com/ai-agents-can-talk-use-tools-and-pay-but-crypto-wants-to-control-the-escrow-moment/