Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency is a form of digital money that uses cryptography to secure transactions, verify ownership, and control the creation of new units. Learn how Bitcoin, stablecoins, and programmable commerce work in the agentic economy.
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Blockchain
What is a blockchain? A blockchain is a database maintained by a network of independent computers — called nodes — that agree on every update through a shared protocol, rather than relying on a single central authority [1]. Data is stored in blocks that are cryptographically linked to each other in sequence, making the history…
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What Is Agentic Commerce?
What Agentic Commerce Actually Means Agentic commerce represents a fundamental shift in how goods and services are bought and sold online. Instead of a human browsing a website, comparing options, and clicking “Buy Now,” an AI agent handles the entire commercial workflow — discovery, evaluation, negotiation, and payment — on behalf of the user, or…
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Tokenization
Note: This page covers tokenization in digital payments and blockchain finance—replacing sensitive data with secure placeholders and putting real-world assets on a blockchain. For tokenization in AI and large language models (breaking text into subword units like BPE, WordPiece, and SentencePiece), see AI Tokenization. Tokenization is one of those terms that sounds technical but describes…
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GENIUS Act
The GENIUS Act (S.1582) is the foundational federal framework governing payment stablecoins in the United States. Signed into law on July 18, 2025, it provides the first comprehensive set of rules for how these digital assets are issued, backed, and regulated across the country.
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Circle Gets Final OCC Charter. The Biggest Stablecoin Issuer Is Now a Federally Regulated Bank.
On the same day the CBDC ban takes effect, Circle receives federal banking status — completing the regulatory architecture for private stablecoins as the US digital dollar.
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JADEPUFFER: First Fully Autonomous Ransomware Executes End-to-End Extortion With No Human Operator
Sysdig TRT documents JADEPUFFER, the first fully autonomous ransomware operation driven by an LLM agent that exploited CVE-2025-3248 in Langflow to encrypt 1,300+ database records.
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Stablecoins Just Lost $7.7B — The Biggest Drop Since Terra. The Pipes Are Still Running Faster Than Ever.
June 2026 saw the sharpest stablecoin contraction since the Terra collapse, driven by geopolitical shock, MiCA enforcement, and a new consortium challenging USDC’s economics. But transaction volume hit a record. The settlement layer for AI agent payments is being squeezed from every direction.
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Game NFTs rank in the top 3 for daily sales; Fantasy Top leads with US$831K
The Fantasy Top collection outperformed others in daily NFT sales, signaling a robust market interest.
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JPMorgan questions SEC’s crypto ETF expansion plans: The Block
JPMorgan casts doubt on the likelihood of further SEC approvals for crypto ETFs after Ethereum ETF nod.