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Infrastructure
The Base-native protocol has deployed 18,000+ agents across execution, commerce, and banking layers — and it's expanding to Robinhood Chain. Here's how the architecture works and what remains unproven.
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Infrastructure
The IETF's first formal mechanism for agent discovery held its working-group-forming BoF at IETF 126 Vienna. The charter was reviewed. It was not adopted. The gap between community momentum and institutional caution reveals how standards bodies process agent-native protocol claims.
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Infrastructure
Three IETF BoFs this week – discovery, communication, and secured collaboration – could formalize the first standards for how agents find, talk to, and work with each other. The agentproto decision Thursday is the pivot point.
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Infrastructure
China is building coordinated agent infrastructure from OS to compute to standards while the West fragments across competing protocols. What builders need to know from Shanghai.
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Infrastructure
a16z backed Runta to build an execution layer for autonomous agents — not another sandbox cloud. CEO Guanlan, ex-Cloudflare and Kong, is betting that agents need full stateful compute. The $20M seed arrives as a CPU shortage intensifies alongside the GPU crisis.
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Infrastructure
Alpaca raised $135M led by Peak XV to scale agent-first brokerage infrastructure — not for humans to trade more, but for AI agents to trade at all. With 4x API user growth in six months and self-clearing across DTCC, FICC, and OCC, the real bet is that tokenized capital markets will need agent-native plumbing from the ground up.
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Infrastructure
83% of organizations say their infrastructure can't handle agentic AI. Gartner, Deloitte, and Google all confirm the same structural shift: inference is now the dominant workload — and the cost nobody planned for.
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Infrastructure
With 17,000+ deployed servers and 36.7% vulnerable to SSRF, the Model Context Protocol needs a supply chain security model. JetStream Security's Verified MCP launch signals the market agrees.
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Policy
The EU AI Act's transparency obligations take effect in 19 days. The binding text is silent on autonomous agents. Non-binding guidelines try to fill the gap with a 'reasonably foreseeable' test.
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Infrastructure
NVIDIA and LangChain's open-stack blueprint pairs Nemotron 3 Ultra with a tuned Deep Agents harness and OpenShell secure runtime – and claims 10x lower inference cost than leading closed models. But the benchmark numbers are vendor-reported.
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