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Aug 27, 2026

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Introducing GOAT Flow

GOAT Flow is live: sell to AI agents and humans by card or crypto across ten networks and counting. No code, live in minutes, every payment verified with receipts nobody can reverse. Secured by Bitcoin.

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Your next customer might not be a person.

Something new is happening in online commerce. People are sending AI agents to do their shopping: to find a product, compare prices, book a service, or pay for access to data and tools. Those agents can browse, decide, and pay - but only if your business speaks their language.

Most checkouts don't.

They were built for a person with a mouse, a card, and patience for forms. An AI agent can't fill in your form. It needs to be told, in a format it understands, what you sell, what it costs, and how to pay. Then it needs to pay, and you need to know that the payment really happened before you deliver anything.

Agent commerce is projected to grow from $8 billion this year to $1.5 trillion by 2030. Full breakdown: goat.network/news/a-truthful-view-of-the-current-state-of-agent-infrastructure

Introducing GOAT Flow. It turns AI agent intent into transactions. Any merchant can make their products findable and payable by AI agents, with receipts nobody can reverse. 

And it asks almost nothing of you: no code, no agent expertise - just a few minutes to set up.

What it looks like for your business

GOAT Flow gives you three ways to sell, and you can use any or all of them:

Checkout is for businesses that already run a store or platform. It adds a complete checkout experience that works for human customers and AI agents alike, connected to your existing order process. Use the hosted version with no build work, or customize it with the SDKs.

QuickPay is for sellers and creators who don't have a storefront and don't want one. You get a direct payment link that shows buyers - human or agent - what you sell and lets them complete payment on the spot. Set up fixed-price products or accept custom amounts for tips and donations.

API Payments is for anyone selling APIs, data, or AI tools. Agents pay automatically, per request, as they use your service. No checkout page at all.

Everything is managed from one Merchant Portal: your products, your payment settings, your team, and a record of every transaction, with reconciliation reports you can export.

No code required

Here's the part that surprises people: you don't need to know tech, and you don't need to know anything about agents. You log into the Merchant Portal, follow the setup process to configure a few key details - what you sell, your prices, where you get paid - and voila, your checkout page is ready. Put it alongside your existing website or app, and agents can discover it and pay. 

No engineering project, no developers on standby. You can be connected to Agent Commerce in minutes.

It's flexible for the way you sell: connect GOAT Flow to your existing business systems, or use QuickPay to create a product payment link - without a complex build either way. (If you do have developers and want to go deeper, the SDKs and APIs are all there. But they're optional, not the price of admission.)

How you get paid

Two ways, side by side.

Card payments are processed by Stripe, which handles the card details, authorization, and settlement, with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and JCB supported. GOAT Flow creates and tracks the transaction and tells you when it's confirmed.

Cryptocurrency payments go straight to your own wallet. The buyer - or their agent - pays from their wallet directly to yours across ten supported networks: GOAT Network, Ethereum, BSC, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, Berachain, X Layer, Metis, and Tempo. GOAT Flow never holds your money. It watches the blockchain, confirms the payment really landed, matches it to the right order, and updates your order status.

That last part matters more than it sounds. In agent commerce, payments happen beyond human speed, with buyers you'll never meet. GOAT Flow only marks an order confirmed after the payment is verified and matched to that exact transaction - so when your system ships a product or unlocks access, it's acting on a fact, not a promise. And that fact stays a fact: the receipt is bound to a payment nobody can reverse.

Why this runs on Bitcoin security

GOAT Flow wasn't started last quarter to chase an agent trend. It's built by GOAT Network, and the GOAT team has spent years building a settlement system secured by Bitcoin - a zkEVM where gas is paid in BTC and where the infrastructure underneath, from the BitVM3 bridge to the Ziren zkVM to the decentralized sequencer, exists so that no single company has to be trusted with the result.

That matters more now than it ever has. The agent economy will move more money, faster, with less human oversight than any system of commerce before it. We think an economy like that should sit on the strongest, most battle-tested security foundation in existence - and that foundation is Bitcoin. GOAT Flow is how that conviction reaches your checkout: payments you can verify, built by the team that's been engineering Bitcoin-secured infrastructure for years.

Getting started

Becoming a merchant takes five steps:

1. Register at the Merchant Portal and get approved

2. Add the wallet addresses where you want to receive funds

3. Set up your products or checkout

4. Run a test transaction

5. Go live. 

If you can fill in a form and paste a wallet address, you can do this in minutes - the full walkthrough is in the merchant guide, and the docs cover every integration path in detail.

The agent economy is arriving whether businesses are ready or not. GOAT Flow is how you get ready, in minutes. Agent commerce, simplified. Secured by Bitcoin.

Learn more at goat.network/flow 

Become a merchant at flow-merchant.goat.network | Full walkthrough: the merchant guide | Read the docs at docs.goat.network | Questions: contact@goat.network

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