There is more to crypto x AI than DeFAI LLMs are translators of intent, crypto is the only way to turn intent into action The future of the web is onchain 🤖

BREAKING: The U.S. Senate voted 66-32 to advance its landmark stablecoin legislation, the GENIUS Act. @nikhileshde.bsky.social reports trib.al/m7nvYzb

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day 🍕 NY Legends Joe’s Pizza are at the Helio booth 🚨 0.0056 SOL = 1 slice Grab your slice of Solana pizza history When it’s gone it’s gone! ⚡️

Perplexity is reimagining hotel discovery — more like having a personal concierge. You can ask detailed, complex queries, and get tailored hotel recommendations in seconds. What once took over 30 minutes and required juggling multiple tabs and sites now happens with a single

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Platforms using @Stripe Connect can now offer stablecoin payments to their users! This means businesses can: 🌎 reach more markets 💰 at lower cost First out of the gate is @shopify, enabling millions of their merchants to accept payments in USDC!

In 18 months, the retail customer won't be a person; it’ll be an agent. There are 3 models of agentic payments that we're seeing: - Human-in-loop checkout - Virtual cards - Agent-owned wallets (USDC, PYUSD) Merchants I'm talking to are asking themselves: – Are we discoverable

Tokenization for agents on Visa and Mastercard looks a lot like what Apple Pay did for cards

The most important factor for AI Agents is to get them the context necessary to execute the task successfully. No matter how powerful AI models get, context will always be king. Data, workflows, tools, domain knowledge, and tuned instructions will all be critical.

BG2 Coatue’s Laffont Brothers. Breaking Down all things AI, public mkts, VC markets, Macro, US Debt, Crypto, IPO's, & More 👊💥 Brad Gerstner Bill Gurley

If agents are initiating transactions and stablecoins are settling them, then: - APIs become more important than checkout pages - Identity becomes the bridge between trust and programmability - Compliance becomes the real moat, not UX Commerce is going to change in the next

BG2 Coatue Pt2. Open AI’s Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 Dives into all things ChatGPT. 👊💥 Brad Gerstner Bill Gurley

Every company will adopt AI and if they don’t, they’ll be left behind 🤖

Enterprises want compliant ways to build agents that are backwards compatible with existing systems they use day to day Consumers want useful agents that automate tasks they spend lots of time on everyday The goal is very clear 🤖

whoever wins the identity & authentication layer wins agentic commerce kyc'd agents that can initiate transactions, manage subscriptions, & negotiate contracts card networks with trust & user protections + startups working to be backwards compatible are my bet on who wins it

Republic is introducing Mirror Tokens, a new type of tokens tied to the performance of the world’s most valuable private companies. 🔓Unlock access: republic.com/mirror

AI Agents having the right context to execute their tasks is the defining factor for agent success. Getting the deepest domain understanding, task instructions, tool use, and the right chunks of corporate knowledge are some of the most important problems in software now.

Announcing the winners of the @Solana Breakout Hackathon!💥 Read about the winners & honorable mentions: blog.colosseum.com/announcing-the… The list of winning teams accepted into our accelerator program will be shared in the coming days. Congrats to all!🏆