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Feb 25, 2026
Andrew Dunbar, CISO at Shopify who focuses on identity, trust, and open commerce protocols, joins to explore how identity and trust become the new perimeter. He discusses agent-driven shopping, how AI changes product discovery, the need for authentication in purchases, and why Shopify is pushing an open commerce protocol to enable secure, interoperable agent commerce.
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Identity And Trust As The New Commerce Perimeter
- Identity and trust are the new commerce perimeter enabling agents to act on behalf of users.
- Shopify built a Universal Commerce Protocol with Google to model product discovery, authentication, and post-purchase flows for agent-driven shopping.
Shopify Engineered Post Purchase Into The Protocol
- Shopify built authentication and post-purchase flows into the protocol so agents can handle returns and subscriptions.
- Andrew Dunbar highlighted that commerce is two-way trust, so merchants need confidence buyers are authentic when agents act.
Protocol Covers Full End To End Commerce
- The Universal Commerce Protocol covers more than payments; it models full end-to-end commerce including carts, offers, and post-purchase actions.
- Shopify focused on structuring product catalogs and merchant rules so agents can interrogate offers, discounts, and returns reliably.