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Money & Markets

JPMorgan Deploys JPM Coin on Ethereum Mainnet — Institutional Stablecoin Payments Go Multi-Chain

The bank's deposit token is now accessible on the public Ethereum network, giving institutional clients a regulated on-chain dollar instrument outside JPMorgan's private rails.

Nolan Pratt Forkast mind 1h ago

Agents at Work

Microsoft Treats AI Agents as Insiders — and the Containment Layer Just Arrived

Guardian Agents and Dynamic Agent Risk mark the first time a major vendor has built continuous containment for non-deterministic AI. But the measurement layer still does not exist.

◆ Dana Ellison3h ago

Infrastructure

TGVP: Infrastructure, Not Model Quality, Is the Primary Bottleneck to Enterprise AI Agent Adoption

The investment-thesis lens on the infrastructure bottleneck. Four-layer stack thesis from TGVP: Memory, Execution, Tooling, Governance. 44-46% CAGR projections.

◆ Blair Hayes11h ago

Models →

DeepSeek Monetizes the Agent Retrieval Layer at $0.75 per 1,000 Calls. Every Competitor Charges at Least $5.

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

The Sandbox Layer Is Commoditizing. Modal Just Raised at 15.75x Revenue Anyway.

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Anthropic’s $16.8 Billion Quarter: Scaling Revenue Against Massive Liabilities

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Infrastructure →

Bifrost and Cloudflare Both Replaced Tool Catalogs with Code Generation. The Agent Tooling Layer Is Standardizing on a Pattern Nobody Named.

◆ Blair Hayes8h ago

Solo.io Agentgateway Joins AAIF — The Agent Gateway Layer Gets a Governance Home

◆ Blair Hayes10h ago

China Proposes Export Controls on 23 AI Technologies Including AI Agents

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Money & Markets →

Card Processor Giants Enter Stablecoin Settlement: Marqeta and Coinbase Wire Stablecoin Cards Through Base

◆ Nolan Pratt10h ago

BIS Quantitative Paper Finds Banks Can Slow Stablecoin Adoption Just by Raising Deposit Rates

◆ Nolan Pratt12h ago

Stablecoin Payments Hit $400B+ in 8 Months, Growing 7x Faster Than Fiat Cross-Border Rails

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Commerce →

Seven Months After Europe’s First Agent Payment, the Trust Layer Is Still Under Construction

◆ Tessa Vaughn8h ago

Mastercard’s New Agent Detection Score Asks a Question No Card Network Has Asked Before

◆ Tessa VaughnYesterday

Forter Just Shipped the Most Complete Merchant-Side Stack for AI Agent Traffic. Holiday Peak Is Five Weeks Away.

◆ Tessa VaughnYesterday

Agents at Work →

Cisco Webex Ships Agentic AI Framework – and Agents Just Entered the Meeting Room

◆ Dana Ellison8h ago

The Agent Identity Stack Is Forming — and Enterprises Are Choosing the Perimeter Before the Measurement Layer Exists

◆ Dana Ellison12h ago

Agent Risk Management Is Now a Funded Category — Six Raises in Six Weeks Totaling $218M+

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Agents at Home →

Muse’s ‘Forget’ Button Doesn’t Delete Anything — And Your Home Agent Knows It

◆ Mila Cohen10h ago

Your Home MCP Server Is Probably Unsecured — And the Protocol’s Own Maker Calls the Flaw ‘By Design’

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

Anthropic’s AI Worm Warning Lands Three Weeks Before HomeView Ships — The Smart Home Security Model Isn’t Ready

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

Trust & Security →

SAP Cloud SDK for Python Lets Attackers Steal OAuth2 Credentials Through a Tenant Subdomain Input — CVSS 10.0

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Know Your Agent: How the Payments Industry Is Building the Trust Layer OAuth and SAML Couldn’t

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

ConnectWise Cloud Backup Credential Abuse: 173 M365 Tenants Compromised in Trust-Through-Defaults Incident

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

Policy →

Treasury NPRM Comment Period Closes TODAY: What the Industry Filed Before the GENIUS Act Deadline

◆ Priya Nair12h ago

Tuesday’s SEC Comment Deadline Closes the Last Public Window Before the GENIUS Act Compliance Stack Locks In

◆ Priya NairYesterday

The Financial Sector Is Shifting from Blocking AI Agents to Building an Authorization Layer

◆ Priya NairYesterday