WERNERBig week for agentic payments:
Anchorage Digital launched Agentic Banking on May 5, a regulated trust and settlement layer that lets institutions fund and govern AI agents holding and moving money. Settlement runs across stablecoins, fiat rails, and tokenized credentials. … Seguir leyendo
It is very cool to see how Western Union is looking to replace SWIFT inside its own network.
This is part of global trend in remittances, where WU (and many others) are using stablecoins for settlement between themselves and their … Seguir leyendo
One of my favorite kinds of stablecoin news is the kind that doesn’t tell you it’s stablecoin news.
Meta started paying creators in Colombia and the Philippines in stablecoins (USDC) this week, in partnership with Bridge/Stripe, Solana… Seguir leyendo
Some people think cross border payments are a pricing problem but it’s actually a cost structure problem.
The goal of every company is to make money, grow revenue. You can do this via two ways: increase sales or reduce costs. … Seguir leyendo
New data from Bitso this week: digital dollars (USDC + USDT combined) just surpassed Bitcoin as the most-purchased crypto asset in Latin America. 40% versus 18%. Full report here.
In Argentina alone, USD-linked assets are 71% of purchases. This … Seguir leyendo
I love the idea of knowledge as a stream you step into.
Reading, listening, or watching isn’t about catching up or exhausting tasks to be done, the current never stops. The flow of posts on social media, articles in the … Seguir leyendo
The practice of communicating using voice notes – short-ish spurts of words spoken into a device – is far from universal.
In Latin America most people elect to speak into their phones over write a text message at least some … Seguir leyendo
Reading through how a DAO – @LidoFinance in this case – makes decisions illustrates the importance of writing and communication for getting anything done in a decentralized environment.
If we move away from traditional sources of clout, i.e. hierarchy, pedigree, … Seguir leyendo
There is a fundamental shift in how web3 organizations vs Web 2.0 companies verify identity vis a vis new contributors.
Would you rather try to figure out what someone can do via an interview process or actually see what a … Seguir leyendo
Someone – perhaps it was Marc Andreessen, it sounds like something he would say – once said that there will be two kinds of people in the future, those who tell computers what to do and those who are … Seguir leyendo
When you compare the way the biggest five technology firms behave and the way regulators publicly talk about their businesses there is a fundamental disconnect.
Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Meta and Amazon are making heavy investments – in increasingly overlaying sectors- … Seguir leyendo