Banks Want Agent Commerce Rules
Bank of America and Capital One co-authored voluntary principles for agent commerce trust, and Mastercard responded eight days later with enforceable architecture.
Coinbase Is Becoming the Stablecoin Infrastructure for US Banks
Two of the ten largest US banks now run stablecoin payments through Coinbase's APIs, and the OCC just gave Coinbase a full trust charter.
opinionWho's Liable When Your Agent Overpays?
Card networks have no reason code for an AI mistake, and nobody has decided who eats the loss.
engineeringStripe's Crypto Card Settlement Path
A stablecoin card tap triggers two ledgers that have to agree before the merchant gets paid.
analysisThe Protocol War Nobody Wins
Adyen built a universal translator across three agent commerce protocols, and Stripe co-wrote one of them.
ai & mlAgentic AML Is Shipping
Three companies shipped AI agents that run real AML investigations, and their production numbers don't measure the same thing.
engineeringYour Own Services Are External
Edge-only validation protects against strangers but not against your own services passing bad data.
analysisBlock Wants Two Banks
Block already runs an FDIC-insured bank, so its application for an uninsured trust bank is about which charter fits which asset class.
fintechHow BaaS Providers Actually Work
BaaS providers rent you a bank charter through an API, and the architecture of that rental determines who holds the risk.
analysisCloudflare Gave AI Agents a Wallet
Cloudflare Wallets run on stablecoins and a 29-year-old HTTP status code because card networks can't price a sub-cent transaction.
analysisVisa's Stablecoin Settlement Hit $20 Billion
Visa settles $20 billion a year in USDC across nine blockchains, and it's already using the onchain data to underwrite working capital loans.