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Live at 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT. Today's lineup:
- @0xceaneCodjia, @coinbase
- @kukulabanze, @Dialectic_Group
- @contrariangab, @herclegroup
- @RkBench, @radiustech_xyz
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.@stablecoing, CEO of @eldoradoio, says users in Bolivia will soon be able to borrow USDT without collateral inside the El Dorado app.
Tala is putting up the capital, and the plan is for those loans to grow into revolving credit lines as people repay on time.
“It’s the power of using crypto primitives without taking crypto risk.”
That’s what’s drawing institutions into DeFi vault management, according to @kukulabanze, Founder of @Dialectic_Group
.@kleffew94, GTM Lead at @CoinbaseDev Platform, says x402 was built so agents could pay for tools with a wallet signature instead of signing up for hundreds of API keys.
Stripe launched its Machine Payments SDK this week, which lets agents pay for APIs in stablecoins one request at a time.
.@RkBench, Founder & CEO of @radiustech_xyz, says AI agents are using the open internet for free, and he wants the sites they rely on to be able to charge them.
“Everyone is saying that agents are going to take over the Internet, but they have to start somewhere, who are they abusing?”
“As simple as HTTPS and how it made the whole Internet private this is a good time to make payroll private as well.”
Stablecoin salaries are public today, and @Pememoni, founder of @0xfairblock, wants payroll platforms to keep them private by default.
Dialectic wants to give SpaceX holders the same deal it gives ETH holders.
“Whether it’s Ether or whether it’s SpaceX we like working with people who believe in the asset. We don’t have to sell them on the asset. Let’s just go get the best compounding on top of that asset.”
@kukulabanze, Founder of @Dialectic_Group
LIVE: Artisan has added a stablecoin-backed card to its bill-pay app with @privy_io and @stripecrypto
Back in August, @doranmaul told us his US users wanted to pay their bills straight from their stablecoins:
“I would pay my mortgage onchain if I could.”
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Pay the bill. Swipe the card. Same stablecoin balance.
Bill pay was step one. @privy_io and @stripecrypto helped us ship step two in just weeks.
TODAY: The OCC has issued its final rule under the GENIUS Act, which sets standards for how payment stablecoins hold reserves and handle redemptions.
@KevinFitzCPA of @htdgtl on what those reserves can hold:
“You can’t have a bunch of Bitcoin that you’re saying is backing your stablecoin. It needs to be US dollars. It needs to be US treasuries.”
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.@USComptroller Jonathan V. Gould: Today’s final rule advances @POTUS Trump’s and @SecScottBessent’s vision for American leadership in digital assets. We are providing a clear, practical framework for payment stablecoin innovation, with strong standards for reserve backing, redemption, and risk management. The OCC is drawing on its longstanding supervisory expertise to support responsible growth and innovation for this new industry. occ.gov/news-issuances/news-…
ALT OCC Advances U.S. Digital Asset Leadership with Final Rule to Implement GENIUS Act
JUST IN: Alpenglow, built by @anza_xyz, is now on @solana mainnet, which cuts finality from about 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds.
Over the past year, the number of stablecoin holders on Solana has grown far faster than the supply.
@proofofjamal from @SolanaFndn said “FX is very ripe” for stablecoins on Solana.
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Alpenglow is now live on Solana mainnet. ⛰️
Finality just went from ~12.8 seconds to ~150ms.
The biggest consensus upgrade in Solana’s history, built by @anza_xyz.
TOMORROW: @solana switches to Alpenglow, @SolanaFndn expects to bring transaction finality down to about 150 milliseconds on a chain that holds $16.8B in stablecoins.
Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machines now runs on x402 and the Coinbase facilitator, so AI agents can pay for digital services.
@kleffew94 on what x402 opens up, back in September:
“Stablecoins are a great way, and also credit cards are a great way to enable access to these resources.”
“Agents are actually rational economic actors that can ingest lots of information, lots of context, and execute micropayments at scale.”
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Mastercard is now helping agents pay for digital services.
Coinbase provides the agentic payments infrastructure to power each @Mastercard agent using @Cloudflare. Powered by x402 and the Coinbase facilitator.
If you’re building in agentic commerce, let’s talk.
RAISED: @mural_pay has raised $28M, including a $15M Series A led by @tether
@sinclair_toffa shared the Palantir playbook behind Mural’s growth, back in May:
“We will deploy forward deployed engineers with the customer who will then understand the edge cases of the use case that people are missing.”
“Those forward deployed engineers will actually ship code and then turn that around same day or same week.”
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Today, we are announcing $28M in total funding, including our $15M Series A led by @tether with participation from @NorthIslandVC 🧵
LIVE: @lifiprotocol Intents are now on @solana
@PhilippZentner introduced the intent system with us at Solana Accelerate back in May:
“Everyone can become a market maker. It’s an open marketplace.”
“Third-party solvers can simply compete for the best price.”
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LI.FI Intents is now live on @solana!
Giving enterprises the infrastructure to build the future of modern finance on Solana.
Apps, wallets, and neobanks can now:
• Access tokenized stocks
• Build 1:1 stablecoin payment flows
• Tap into compliant liquidity
Unlocking access to internet capital markets.
TODAY: Western Union has picked Noah to power its global stablecoin payments network.
@ShahRamezani on what stablecoins add to a network like Western Union’s, earlier this month:
“Combine them with the power of instant money movement cross-border, which is stablecoin, you have instant money movement globally.”
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@WesternUnion has selected Noah to power its global stablecoin payments network across 200+ countries and territories.
Western Union brings the reach. Noah brings the rails.
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LIVE: Stablecoin liquidity from @checkercorp now backs @moneygram’s FX operations, so its treasury team can source liquidity at any hour, weekends included.
@jackchong_jc on MoneyGram’s liquidity problem, back in June:
“They just pre-fund three days in advance, five days in advance. So they just brute force it by having capital.”
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🪄 New on the network: @MoneyGram
MoneyGram’s treasury team now uses Checker to access stablecoin liquidity for its FX operations, at any hour and alongside its existing banking services.
Here’s how your team can do the same: checker.finance/blog/checker…
NEW: Mesh and Visa are teaming up so crypto and stablecoin balances in everyday wallet apps can be spent wherever Visa is accepted.
@bamazizimesh showed us the tech behind it back in April:
“We have created this patent pending technology called smart funding that on the fly converts all sorts of tokens to a stablecoin so users can pay with any tokens that they want.”
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Mesh and @Visa are partnering to make crypto and stablecoin balances spendable anywhere Visa is accepted: 175M+ merchant locations, straight from the wallet apps people already use.
No separate card. No cash-out. Nothing for merchants to change.
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.@dfnsHQ CEO @christophergdf says a tech provider that suddenly starts collecting licenses might be getting ready to compete with its own clients.
“It should ring a bell and it should just trigger some questions.”