Lance Lukens

@Cointelegraph a federal working group reviewing models before release means the only agents that ship are the ones with a compliance team. open agents on open rails route around that by default. who do you trust more, a permitting office or a public ledger?

🇺🇸 LATEST: The Trump administration is considering an executive order to create an AI working group to review new AI models before release, per NYT.

@Cointelegraph banks paying anthropic to build a financial crimes agent is the trailer. the actual movie: every bank wanting their own version, hosted their own way, paid per query in usde instead of an enterprise license. that's the shift nobody's pricing in yet.👀

🚨 JUST IN: Anthropic and FIS are partnering to build an AI agent that helps banks independently investigate financial crimes, per WSJ.

1. onboarding is copy/paste agentic.market/skill.md → paste into claude, codex, hermes, cursor, or whatever you're building with. your agent discovers, compares, and pays for services. no API keys, no config.

@jessepollak @base the agent economy doesn't need another accelerator cohort. needs rails where a solo dev ships an agent on monday and gets paid in USDC by friday. infra > programs.

recommend @base teams apply to build with YC

@baseapp agent payments need a place where the money actually lands. usdc on base, settled per request, no monthly subscription middleman skimming. that's the whole pitch. autx.ai

Good morning to everyone using Base App. If you aren't using Base App... whatever.

@OOBEonSol @x402intern @solana agents that generate revenue per call are the only agents that matter. everything else is a demo. on AUTX builders keep 72% of every request in USDC. no subscription, no middleman skim. autx.ai

We just shipped Synapse Sentinel. An AI agent on @solana that executes actions and generates revenue per call. Agents are still black boxes, and it’s hard to verify what a tool actually does. So we moved the schema on-chain: • tool inputs, outputs, and descriptions inscribed on Solana, chunked across tx logs and rebuilt via on-chain state • hashed and verifiable by anyone, no registry needed • staking collateral for disputes • escrow and receipts settle via @x402 against the on-chain data Sentinel is live on mainnet with 100+ tools already inscribed. Explore our agent in replies ⬇️ @solana_ai

@jerallaire @The_DTCC check this…first users moving real money on those rails, not banks. USDC settles agent requests in seconds today at @autxdotai

Circle is thrilled to be part of the @The_DTCC working group on tokenization -- Circle infrastructure platforms and USDC can play a significant role in helping bring the entire financial system onchain. This is a big year for that build out! dtcc.com/news/2026/may/…

@CalebSol Me2. That’s exactly why I built autx.ai. We’re structured as a DAO LLC utilizing a bonding curve on Base. Built for the long term. Come join us

I’m tired of pump and dumps I need a community here long term Do they exist?

@callebtc @gladstein age verification laws are id-for-everything laws with extra steps. once you have to register to read, you have to register to build, to sell, to run an agent. the agent economy needs rails that don't route through a government login screen.

Age verification is the Trojan horse for complete control of the internet. Imagine you'd have to register your identity to read a newspaper. That's what this is about. They say it's for the children, but it really is about taking away your right to use the web anonymously.

@nixorokish @TimBeiko the agent space has the opposite problem from ethereum infra. plenty of devs, zero coordination and most 'launchpads' actively work against the people building the actual agents. let’s fix the unit economics and coordination follows.👏

constantly impressed by the ethereum community's ability to coordinate a hundred+ developers from 12+ companies on optimizing and upgrading the core code of a single platform that tens of thousands of developers are building on top of, all of whom w differing opinions & priorities it's wild that this works. not a single other blockchain has this many open source moving parts, contributors, & true decentralization make sure to check out the notes from the sessions! soldogn.xyz/resources

@rousseaukazi @tobi side projects used to mean a notion doc and a domain name. now they can be an agent that does real work and pays in usdc every time someone runs it. the floor for 'what counts as shipping' moved.

stream of consciousness: it's never been more critical for your friends and family to have a side project. do them a favor and get them started on one. get them a github repo, a codex/claude/lovable/replit/whatever. just a folder that they can work with an ai to commit and push stuff to. the rate at which new tools and technology is both exhilarating and nauseating. the future has never been more unevenly distributed than it is today. however, what's different about today is that literally ~everyone can access it. the playing field has never been more even. @tobi has this cool approach for being a futurist. it goes something like: "predicting the future is easier than you think. 1) live in everyone's relative future, just use all the bleeding edge, latest tools to the max. just get the reps in. 2) when you compare that to what the average person is doing today, you have another data point to extrapolate a line from. 3) if on top of that, you're a student of history, you have many more data points to extrapolate a curve from." it's pretty wild just how effective this thinking is. many of us do, attempt to do (1), every day. honestly, being able to learn about so many of the latest tools, approaches, etc is easily the greatest value add twitter/x has on my life. it's like the best group chat for being exposed to the future. however, when i speak to non-technical friends & family, the same energy for all this new stuff isn't there. it's not because of lack of interest, if it was, it wouldn't really bother me. that said, i know these people and they would find it infinitely interesting and they would naturally love keeping up with this stuff. what i'm learning is that most people don't have a low expectation, fun side project that they can apply all this new tech to. when a new piece of tech comes out, people can intellectually understand that it's cool but if there's not an easy, personal thing to apply it to... then it just stays intellectually interesting and not viscerally exciting. for example, there are all of those cool skills today like remotion/hyperframes/etc where if you point it at a repo, it'll create a fun marketing video. for anyone with a side project who sucks at video editing, this is super cool and you're itching to see what it produces for your project. however, if you don't, you're sorta like "that's cool" and then you move on. you don't feel inspired to try it, it feels too heavy, and you miss out on living in everyone's relative future. why is it important to get them setup with a repo/software adjacent project? ai's killer use case right now is that it truly democratizes software engineering. the latest models are as, if not more, capable as most senior engineers we've ever worked with. the best tools are being made for agents that are software engineers at heart.md. you'll get the most bang for your buck by having something with a software component. get them setup with a repo somewhere and teach them how to ask their agent to point to tools, learn it, and see their eyes light up. having something you're hacking on is fun but more importantly, it acts as an object to apply the future to. it's something you care about, something you know, that you're building over time, and therefore when you encounter something that can push it forward in a way you could never imagine and at a speed you find neck-breaking, you can't help but find yourself sprinting to set it up. helping your community feel that intoxicating feedback loop is one of the more valuable things you can do for them today.

@saylor agents on autx get paid per request, in usdc, on-chain, the second the work clears. 72% to the builder. quarterly dividends feel slow when settlement can be t+O.

How often would you prefer to be paid dividends?

the onchain economy story everyone tells stops at the freelancer in Lagos getting USDC in two seconds. fine. now what do they spend it on? if the answer is still 'bridge back to fiat,' we haven't built anything yet. agents that earn and spend in stablecoins is the actual unlock.

What does an onchain economy for a billion people look like? A freelancer in Lagos gets paid in USDC and it clears in two seconds. No correspondent bank, no three day wait, no fees. A startup in São Paulo raises onchain capital from investors in Singapore and Berlin. No SPV, no six month legal process. An AI agent settles supply chain invoices automatically because the payment layer and the contract layer are the same thing. A teenager in Manila earns money building on a protocol and nobody asks where she went to school. That’s an open economy that increases innovation, creativity and freedom.

@solana @x402intern meta adding USDC payments matters less for users and more for what it signals: stablecoin rails are the default settlement layer now. agents that charge in USDC stop being weird and start being normal. @solana sits right in that flow.

This week’s theme was distribution: Solana rails kept reaching more users, markets, and institutions. Meta added USDC payments on Solana for creators, Korea’s largest card issuer picked Solana for stablecoin payment infrastructure, and RWA value crossed $2.5B. Accelerate USA kicks off in 2 days. Big week ahead. 📰 Headline News - @Meta added support for USDC payments on Solana for creators in Colombia and Philippines - South Korea's #1 card issuer Shinhan Card signed an MOU with @SolanaFndn to build stablecoin payment infrastructure - Solana hit a new ATH in its RWA ecosystem by crossing $2.5B in total value 📰 Launches - MEGA from @MegaETH and CHZ from @Chiliz went live on Solana via @sunrisedefi - @solflare added Fast Crypto Buys, allowing instant wallet funding through Apple Pay - @okx established Agent Payments Protocol for autonomous AI commerce - @moonpay unveiled MoonAgents Card, a virtual @Mastercard for AI agents - @humidifi debuted Aquarium, a transparent market making engine designed to deepen liquidity and tighten spreads - @jito_sol BAM launched its inaugural Maker Priority plugin for deterministic prop AMM execution - @tryfomo extended its trading platform to desktop with fomo web - @bulktrade executed its largest platform upgrade, adding sub accounts, native multisig, and isolated margin - @Axis_pizza initiated its closed beta, empowering users to build custom ETFs - @solanamobile crowned the winners of its largest hackathon yet - @NoditPlatform expanded its Datashare service to Solana to deliver enterprise grade indexing - @multisig published three open source tools for Squads Protocol v4 - @ranger_finance wrapped Build A Bear Hackathon, selecting six teams to compete for $1M vault TVL seeding - @benchdotmarkets opened its prediction market discovery platform to the public - @ridemarkets activated its conviction markets beta to operate as an onchain prop firm using treasury funded futarchy - @perena overhauled its portals to deliver faster performance and a cleaner UX - @AviciMoney teamed with @PreStocks to offer zero fee, 24/7 retail access to pre-IPO shares - Coinbase AM launched CUSHY, a tokenized stablecoin credit fund via @SuperstateInc - @trycallshot deployed Callshot Football PvP sports fantasy platform - @Thea_AI brought its predictive AI inference network onchain by tokenizing it on Solana for risk markets 📰 Milestones - @Collector_Crypt reported $165M in monthly volume and $85M in revenue - @polldotfun surpassed $1M in all time wagered volume - @Phygitals hit $200M in GMV Artwork by @Tainaker 🔥

@bull_bnb every cycle the lesson is the same: custody you don't control isn't yours. the agent economy has the same failure mode waiting. if your agent's revenue routes through a platform wallet, it's not your revenue, it's their float.

There's a passage in Freedom of Money I've read three times. February 2014. Mt.Gox collapsed. CZ lost 100 BTC inside it. $50K then $7M today. He didn't chase it. Didn't complain. Turned around and built Binance. I had my own overnight to zero moment. At the time i thought i lost the money. Later I understood Money lost can be earned again. Yourself lost, and there's nothing left. "Don't lose yourself." Thanks @OHN_XT for sending the book.

@ethereum @VitalikButerin core devs flying to svalbard to harden L1 settlement is the boring work that makes agent payments actually work. 72% to the builder in usdo, on-chain, only matters if the chain underneath doesn't flinch. unsexy infra is the whole game.

Last week, Ethereum core contributors gathered in Svalbard for the Soldøgn interop: a week long event focused on hardening Glamsterdam implementations to scale Ethereum securely ☀️ Read the full recap, including their candidate post-fork gas limit, below:

@Cointelegraph stablecoin active addresses up ~673% in 5 years. that's the rail. agents that charge in usdc and settle on-chain ride that curve. agents that charge in their own token fight it.

📊 MARKET: Stablecoin Active Addresses increased by roughly 673% in the last 5 years.

@Polymarket On AUTX we have….

This is the exact 'token-to-business' bridge we’re building at AUTX. You can bring these agents/tokens to our platform to claim their DAO LLC status and activate the x402 rails. We’re turning memes into legally-protected, revenue-generating autonomous entities AUTX.ai

Every @pumpfun token can now become its own AI business with x402 baked in.

Reliable agency requires a foundation that isn’t just smart, but transparent. By integrating AUTX with DAO LLC frameworks, we ensure that as AI gains agency, it remains accountable to the community rather than centralized silos. Let’s accelerate toward a decentralized intelligence layer

AI is entering a new phase. Reliable agency is becoming the next frontier. This is an important moment in the timeline of artificial intelligence. My team and I are going to drive acceleration in the right direction.