AI Agents Started Paying Their Own Bills This Week
For twenty-five years the internet built CAPTCHAs to keep bots away from the checkout page. This week Visa and Mastercard started issuing bots a pass.
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Crypto Apps Pay Ten Times What Your Savings Account Does, and the Banks Are Suing
The average U.S. savings account paid 0.37% in September. Coinbase pays its members 3.75% on USDC, and starting the last week of October a USDC balance comes to Samsung Wallet in the U.S.
Is AI breaking cryptography?
On October 6 OpenAI published 722 math manuscripts from an unreleased model. None touched cryptography, but Ethereum researcher Justin Drake told large holders to move funds to addresses that have never exposed a public key.
Stablecoins Hold About as Much U.S. Debt as India, and the Treasury Is Counting on More
Treasury's deputy secretary told the bond market on September 22 that stablecoin issuers hold nearly $200 billion of Treasury bills and called it a growth opportunity.
The Ongoing Lack of Clarity
Clarity Act fails 49-50: What the Senate vote means for stablecoin rewards and bank deposits
The x402 Counter Has Shown the Same Four Numbers Since March
Forty of the world's largest payment and technology companies joined a foundation this summer for a market whose only public number comes from an unstamped counter that has not moved since March.