Our new report "Task Markets: the Final Form Of Agentic Commerce" is live! The next phase of agentic commerce depends on whether agents can coordinate at scale. In a task market, an agent can hand off parts of a workflow to other agents or humans and release payment once the work is verified. The need for verification grows with every extra step because errors compound across the workflow. A ten-step workflow with 95% accuracy at each stage has only a 60% chance of finishing without an error. Task markets create checkpoints at each handoff so mistakes can be corrected before they spread. Agent-to-agent hiring already exists on Virtuals, NEAR, and Daydreams. Activity remains concentrated in crypto-native use cases and simple services. x402 and MPP now give agents a direct way to purchase fixed services such as data or inference. Task markets build on this payment layer by coordinating several providers across a longer workflow. An internal onboarding agent might use pay-per-call to purchase a background check. The rest of the process could still depend on document review and human approval. A task market gives the agent a way to coordinate those steps without integrating every provider in advance. Enterprises are the most likely source of early demand because companies already use agents to run internal workflows. Task markets become useful when those workflows depend on providers outside the organization. Reliable handoffs could allow agent-to-agent hiring to scale.(Delphi Digital)