Michael Broderick

BREAKING: the MoonAgents Card is here 💰 fund your new virtual Mastercard debit card with zero-fee stablecoin onramps 🛍️ spend anywhere Mastercard is accepted using your @solana stablecoin balance powered by Monavate and @Mastercard to support the agentic economy

Agents can now spend USDC on Solana anywhere Mastercard works. Introducing MoonAgents Card by @moonpay

Benedict Evans' new presentation just dropped: "AI eats the world" 90 slides on macro and strategic trends in tech. His biannual overview is always worth the time: ben-evans.com/presentations

We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale AI cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention. It has significant implications for cybersecurity in the age of AI agents. Read more: anthropic.com/news/disruptin…

There was a time when you couldn't trade stocks on your phone. Imagine explaining to someone in 2035 that back in 2025, markets closed on weekends and holidays. Tokenization will unlock 24/7 markets, and once people experience it, they'll never go back. It's the same story every time: access feels impossible until it's within reach.

“Claude, change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly." Passing the Heinlein test for AGI, at least in theory. Specialization is for insects.

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🚨 NEW LABS EXPERIMENT 🚨 Introducing Mixboard 💡🧑‍🎨 an experimental, AI-powered concepting board. Designed to help you explore, visualize, and refine your ideas and powered by our latest image generation model (🍌) Now available in US-only public beta! Learn more and try it here ⬇️ blog.google/technology/goo…

Google AP2 (Agent Payments Protocol) supports cross-chain @USDC agentic payments, building on x402 (http extension). I have long held the view that the velocity of payments in the world will grow exponentially (e.g. Global TPV) as we enter the era of agentic payments onchain.

x402 + @Google just unlocked a new level for AI agents. Agents can actually pay each other now, with x402 powering the stablecoin rail inside Google’s new Agentic Payments Protocol (AP2). Really cool.

Today we will lead the world in commemorating the 24th anniversary of 9/11. Twenty-four years after the day that changed our world forever, we will come together to read aloud the names of those lost. Join us live: ow.ly/9SRg50WRic3

Someone on HN (which is often quite crypto-skeptical) asked why exactly businesses are finding crypto and stablecoins useful. It's a very reasonable question. My response:

"We need crypto to be a computer, not a casino." @skominers

@jarednotjerry @FogoChain 👔🔥

I joined the @FogoChain team! Position? Content. Mission? Follow the Fogo🔥

This Friday, SDF's @adavaughan is going live on @StellarOrg with @chronear, @NEARProtocol's Head of Ecosystem Strategy, to discuss how NEAR Intents will power new DeFi use cases on Stellar and what this integration means for the ecosystem.

Hiring BD in crypto ≠ copying a web2 playbook. We put together a guide for founders — shaped by our own firsthand experience and lessons from working with dozens of teams across the ecosystem. 👉 How to Build BD & Growth Teams: a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/…

A fresh new set of teams is ready to take the NEAR Ecosystem by storm! Check out the many new products below, coming to NEAR across Intents, AI, and Shade Agents 👇

Looming security armageddon no one is talking about: LLMs exploiting ubiquitous vulnerabilities in code. We need to rebuild the internet with formal verification and running services in secure enclave hardware. Dive in ⬇️

Calyx is a cross-chain launchpad that removes the walls between ecosystems 🪷 22+ chains. One transaction. No bridges. No swaps. No chain anxiety. 🌱 Powered by NEAR Intents.