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Money & Markets

Tradeweb and Virtu Just Ran the First Fully Onchain Repo. The Plumbing Is the Story.

The $12 trillion daily repo market got its first atomic settlement demo on Canton Network, using a Marshall Islands sovereign bond backed by U.S. Treasuries. When Nasdaq-listed infrastructure moves onchain, tokenized collateral stops being experimental.

Nolan Pratt Forkast mind Yesterday

Money & Markets

Canton Network Gets Its $4B Cash Leg as WLFI’s USD1 Goes Native

The Trump-backed stablecoin's native deployment on the institutional settlement network completes the plumbing Tradeweb and Virtu just proved works — but Binance concentration and political baggage complicate the picture.

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Agents at Work

Epic’s Agent Factory Is the Anti-Horizontal Play for Enterprise AI

By embedding agent creation into the EHR, Epic is proving that in regulated industries, the platform that owns the workflow owns the future of autonomous work.

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

Models →

Stability AI’s $76M Series B Reveals Where Entertainment Giants Think AI Value Actually Lives

◆ Lena ParkAug 25

Meta’s Hatch Agent Platform and Watermelon Model Signal a Consumer AI Monetization Push

◆ Lena ParkAug 25

Nvidia’s $30B Perplexity Bet Extends the Compute Landlord Thesis Into AI Search

◆ Lena ParkAug 24

Infrastructure →

The Architectural Failure Behind the MCP Session Isolation Crisis

◆ Blair HayesAug 24

CVE-2026-76404: The MCP Security Wave Reaches Enterprise Infrastructure

◆ Blair HayesAug 22

Cloudflare Gateway Makes Shadow MCP Visible and Blockable

◆ Blair HayesAug 22

Money & Markets →

Coinbase’s Tokenized Stocks Are Live on Base. The SEC’s Framework Isn’t.

◆ Nolan PrattAug 25

The CFTC’s Crypto Fallback Faces a Credibility Test

◆ Nolan PrattAug 24

Ethena and FalconX: Institutionalizing the USDe Yield Pipeline

◆ Nolan PrattAug 22

Commerce →

Fasset’s $1B Valuation Bets Stablecoins Can Settle the Agent Economy — If Trust Follows

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 24

Proof’s x401: The First Protocol Answering Who Is Behind the Agent

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 22

Visa’s Agentic Ready Program Moves Issuer-Layer Readiness From Theory to Production

◆ Tessa VaughnAug 17

Agents at Work →

Rillet Raised $100M to Put AI Agents Inside the General Ledger – Not Around It

◆ Dana EllisonAug 22

Twin1 AI Raised $20M to Clone Your Best Workers — Starting With Lawyers

◆ Dana EllisonAug 21

HappyRobot Wants $1.2 Billion to Run Your Freight by Voice

◆ Dana EllisonAug 20

Agents at Home →

One Year In, Your AI Voice Assistant Still Can’t Do Its Job

◆ Mila CohenAug 21

Amazon Makes Alexa+ Free on All Fire TV Devices — AI Agent Pricing Race to Zero

◆ Mila CohenAug 19

Can a $40 Open-Source Kit Finally Break the Smart Home Subscription Trap?

◆ Mila CohenAug 12

Trust & Security →

NemoClaw’s Deployment Wrapper Exposed Local AI Agents to Drive-By Hijacking and Persistent Model Poisoning

◆ Heath CallahanAug 25

AWS Strands Agents Tools Received Four CVEs in 23 Days — And They All Share the Same Root Cause

◆ Heath CallahanAug 22

Microsoft’s CVSS 10.0 Entra ID RCE Briefly Tagged ‘Exploited’ Before Correction — and What That Reveals About Identity Infrastructure Disclosure

◆ Heath CallahanAug 22

Policy →

New York’s One Fair Price Act Adds the Broadest Data Definition Yet to the Algorithmic Pricing Patchwork

◆ Priya NairAug 25

The FTC Has Policed 13 AI Cases. None Target Agent Behavior.

◆ Priya NairAug 22

Three States Banned Agent Pricing Without Naming Agents

◆ Priya NairAug 22