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Fossilizing the Moment of Creation
Dr. Manny Ahmed and Ari Abelson of OpenOrigins explain how they are tackling cryptographic provenance, and how their Cambium network and Tally product make media and AI agent logs impossible to fake after the fact.
The Architecture of a Unified Real World Asset Marketplace
Mike McCluskey and Ashley Ebersole of tx discuss the merger of Sologenic and Coreum, the regulatory shift at the SEC, and a technical approach that builds compliance directly into tokens.
Inside the Push for Agent-Native Payments at Coinbase Business
Head of Coinbase Business Sid Coelho-Prabhu details the shift from fax-driven financial alerts to the x402 protocol, where AI agents fund their own wallets to settle onchain transactions.
Avery Ching on Aptos, The Machine Economy, and the Quantum Clock
Aptos Labs co-founder Avery Ching discusses the move from Meta to Layer 1 infrastructure, the development of Decibel and Shelby for the machine economy, and why he is building for post-quantum security today.
Building Infrastructure for One Hundred Million Self-Custody Users
Shen Chen, Head of Partnerships at Bitget Wallet, discusses the transition from industrial manufacturing to crypto, the scaling of self-custody to 100 million users, and the practical challenges of global crypto payments.
The Data Layer Grounding Financial AI: From Detroit Fiber to Desktop Terminals
Andrew Lebbos, SVP of Data Licensing at Benzinga, explains how a newsdesk-driven data business scaled from a single request into a provider for hundreds of brokerages and AI answer engines.
How Dynamic Architected Embedded Wallets at Scale
Itai Turbahn shares the evolution of Dynamic from an unsuccessful Solana NFT transaction to a major acquisition by Fireblocks, focusing on abstracting crypto complexity for fintech scale.
The End of the Thirty-Page Pitch Deck
FishTank founder Elie Bouzaglou explains how short-form video and distribution are replacing static pitch decks, starting from a high school sales operation to a VC check wired before final exams.
The Economics of Truth and the Deliberate Moon Fork
Phill of the Lituus Foundation explains why Augur is triggering a terminal protocol fork to test its oracle security and why REP holders must migrate their tokens by August 1.
The Stablecoin Rubber Band: Ryne Saxe on Routing Money Across Chains
Eco CEO Ryne Saxe discusses the evolution of stablecoin infrastructure, the arrival of runtime-adaptable routing, and why he expects agentic commerce to trigger a market spike within the year.
Labeling 500 Million Wallets to Bridge the Gap Between Onchain Data and AI Agents
Hürcan Polat of Nansen details how enriched wallet labels provide the context AI agents need to trade autonomously and why pay-per-request infrastructure is replacing the traditional subscription model.
The Withdrawal Button You Can Never Find
SideShift.ai founder Andreas Brekken traces his path from typing RPC commands into a Bitcoin wallet in 2012 to building a direct-to-wallet exchange, and explains why machine-to-machine payments are the next frontier for autonomous agents.