Brian Butler

Uber and WeRide just launched fully driverless robotaxis in Dubai. Book through the Uber app, no driver onboard. They're planning 1,200 vehicles across the Middle East by 2030. It's actually happening.

Anthropic bought an 8 month old biotech startup with fewer than 10 employees for $400M in stock. Wild bet on AI models for drug development.

KB Kookmin Card filed a patent for a hybrid card that switches between stablecoin and credit automatically. Same rewards, same merchants. Just add crypto rails.

Securitize controls 70% of the US tokenization market. BlackRock's $1.7B BUIDL fund is a client. NYSE partnered with them for 24/7 trading. That's dominance.

Circle's new Layer 1 blockchain Arc is claiming to be quantum-resistant from day one. They're calling it "a baseline requirement." I wonder how other chains will respond to quantum computing. Seems like a doomsday scenario the industry needs to take seriously.

@cuysheffield That's actually epic. Command line commerce!

There’s something magical about seeing Visa’s brand living inside the command line.

🚨 UPDATE: Polygon introduces Private Mempool, direct transaction routing to validators, bypassing public mempool risks.

Polygon Digest | Ep. 1 📜 This week on Polygon, 7 things worth knowing 👇🧵

@protofire Loved it. So we’re going private now… look at us lol

Nothing to Hide: On-Chain Privacy in 2026 (The Protocol Roundtable) x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Live right now talking onchain privacy: x.com/protofire/stat… @protofire @0xPolygon

When it comes to moving money, the method matters. It's not our first trillion.

On CT: "Polygon is just Polymarket" So I removed Polymarket from the data @0xPolygon still did ~$40K in fees in the last 24h That’s more than all these chains combined ↓ Sui TON Starknet NEAR Monad Avalanche Cardano Aptos Optimism zkSync Sonic Scroll Plasma Celestia Sei

Circle exec wants UK to blend EU's MiCA with the US GENIUS Act. Create a distinct British framework. Smart play. Why copy paste when you can cherry pick the best parts of both?

Nvidia wants to ship $1 trillion worth of chips in the next decade. Not revenue. Hardware. The AI infrastructure buildout is going to be absolutely bonkers.

Apex Group is bringing assets onchain to a Polygon CDK chain. That's trillions of assets. Big things ahead.

Apple just shipped its first silent background security update for Safari. No user action needed. Security patches while you sleep. About time.

TransFi just raised $19.2M to scale stablecoin payments across 70+ countries. Targeting $5B volume by 2026. The infrastructure for moving stablecoins globally is getting real funding now.

Kagi is building a human-only internet with verified humans and no AI slop. Wild idea but honestly? I'd pay for that.

Sunday just raised at a $1.15B valuation building household robots. We're closer to Rosie from the Jetsons than I thought.