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Giant news from a giant planet! NASA Webb Telescope captured a new view of Jupiter in infrared light, uncovering clues to the planet’s inner life. Two moons, rings, and distant galaxies are visible. Get the details: go.nasa.gov/3pErDkC

have you thanked karl the fog today

IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos, which is the size of a football stadium and poses no threat to Earth.

12 days. 12 livestreams. A bunch of new things, big and small. 12 Days of OpenAI starts tomorrow.

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SDF recently hosted a fundraiser for Congressman Ritchie Torres’ re-election as we back pro-crypto leadership in the U.S. Ritchie has been central to pro-crypto policy: he founded the Congressional Crypto Caucus, championed GENIUS & co-sponsored CLARITY. Aligned on Progress 🇺🇸

Tailwind drama showing exactly why we need pay-per-use + micropayments for AI crawlers. Usage is exploding (agents), but docs traffic is ~40% down and revenue ~80% down - they cut ~75% of eng. Internet business model is shifting to agents. One thing x402 aims to solve

Cloudfare talking x402

Why no stablecoins in Google’s new Agentic Universal Commerce Protocol? Stablecoins only make sense for high frequency, low value micro payments settled instantly (APIs). x402 will dominate here Shopping-like use cases are higher value (“macro” payments), lower frequency, and

Stripe launching x402 Agentic Payments with stablecoins is massive validation A lot of work to be done but couldn't be prouder of how far the ecosystem has come

See you all in Denver next week Talking x402 and Agentic Payments with Stablecoins. Will be sharing what we are cooking here at Sei Labs If you're working on agentic payments let's chat 🤝