Payments
Under a second is the right answer to the wrong question
At an AWS Bedrock AgentCore Payments session the question was what happens at a thousand transactions a second, and the answer was settlement in under a second. Both are true and they answer different questions. The right frame for one payment crossing a trust boundary is the wrong frame for a million events a day inside one agent fleet, where the chain fee stacks up before anything else does.
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