Money & Markets

Money & Markets

The GENIUS Act’s July 18 Deadline Is a Rulemaking Checkpoint. The Real Test Is What Comes After.

Six agencies face a statutory deadline to publish final stablecoin rules on July 18. But the law's actual compliance window doesn't kick in until January 2027 — and the gap between rulemaking and enforcement is where the agent payment economy gets shaped.

◆ Nolan Pratt·Jul 10

Money & Markets

The Giants Are Building on x402. The Transaction Count Is the Least Interesting Part.

AWS, Google, Cloudflare, Visa, and Stripe are embedding the protocol into core infrastructure. That's the structural shift — the 169M transaction milestone is just the noise around it.

◆ Nolan Pratt·Jul 10