Mission Control vs Coinbase Bazaar

Bazaar is the discovery layer; Mission Control is the governance layer. They compose — they don't compete. If you're an enterprise buyer, you almost certainly want both.

Dimension	Mission Control	Coinbase Bazaar
Primary purpose	Governance, orchestration, audit for agentic spending.	Discovery + comparison of x402-payable services.
Who pays whom	Buyer pays vendors, Mission Control charges orchestration fee on top.	Free for buyers; vendors list themselves; Coinbase derives discovery value.
Mission state machine	Yes — typed lifecycle with whitelisted transitions.	No — single x402 calls only.
Policy Engine (budget caps)	Yes — per-call, per-mission, per-day, deterministic.	No — buyer enforces their own caps.
Hash-chained audit	Yes — every event SHA-256 chained, verifyChain() detects tampering.	No — audit is on-chain settlement only.
Cross-source verification	Yes — deterministic + LLM evaluator signal.	No — buyer verifies their own results.
Provider certification	Yes — 5 criteria, gated approval, verified-provider badge.	Trust signals from on-chain activity, no formal cert process.
MCP server	Yes — 8 tools.	Yes — discovery tools.
Best for	Enterprise buyers running many missions, needing audit trail.	Solo agents, one-off paid calls, marketplace browsing.

Takeaway

Use Bazaar for discovery ("what's available?") and Mission Control for governance ("can my agent spend on this?"). Mission Control's DiscoveryAdapter pulls from Bazaar — they're complementary, not competitive.

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