Matthew Prince divided employees into builders, sellers, and measurers — then declared measurers obsolete. He did it while posting record revenue. The question: is this honesty, or a template?
More than half of leaders who cut staff for AI say they were wrong. Three anchor cases show what happens next.
Brian Armstrong is replacing managers with AI agents and ‘player-coaches.’ The workforce isn’t buying it.
With legislative progress on digital commodity oversight hitting a wall, the CFTC is preparing to bypass Congress to define the market’s rules of the road.
The exchange’s new UK MiFID license creates a multi-asset regulated venue — the piece agent trading infrastructure has been missing.
Stripe, Coinbase, Visa, Mastercard, and 140 others are backing a stablecoin that shares reserve yield with distribution partners. With the Coinbase-Circle agreement expiring in August, the timing is not coincidental.
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.
Visa’s adjusted onchain data shows USDC dominates real economic activity — even as USDT remains larger by market cap. For agent payment platforms, the settlement currency decision is increasingly made for them.
As Coinbase registers an autonomous agent as an investment adviser, the industry faces a collision between 1940s-era regulation and machine-driven finance.
Mastercard’s $1.8B stablecoin acquisition and 31-partner AP4M launch signal the institutional stamp on machine-to-machine commerce. The real story is the bridge players operating across both card rails and open-protocol stablecoin networks.