AI Speeds Internal Tools Into Profitable Side‑hustles
Jesus wow Ramp is SHIPPING Companies internal tools become things they turn into side-hustle businesses because AI lets them ship so fast. And Steer is interesting. It's a way to make your AI a super nerd about the thing you're super nerdy about
CashApp Launches BNPL for Peer‑to‑peer Payments
The @CashApp just shipped BNPL for person-to-person payments Few thoughts 1: A lot of people want to pay back friends, feel guilty, and this unlocks that with better cashflow 2: CashApp FINALLY shipping AfterPay integrations that work 3: There's a BNPL for your drug...
CEO Automates Life with AI‑Powered Lemon Pie Autopilot
The CEO of @brexHQ runs his company through a custom AI he built and named Lemon Pie. And I think it's the future of CEO productivity Think about the day job of a Fintech CEO. - Thousands of Slack channels. - Hundreds of...
Agentic Spend: Cards, Stablecoins, or Both?
Agentic spend. Is it going to cards? Stablecoins? Both? LOVED this chat with @lithic 's Reggie Young 👇 https://t.co/mM0xZ7sARL
Sessions Collapse Micropayments Into Two On‑Chain Transactions
Sessions are a killer feature of the @mpp Machine Payments Protocol It helps agents transact as quickly as possible by streaming tokens for real-time billing/pricing. Works with cards, stablecoins, and other payment methods
Central Bank Labs Demo Stablecoins, Shaping Tokenized Money
Before this podcast with the @bankofengland I didn't realize entral bankers build demo's to show how stablecoins work There's a lot going on at the central bank level for the future of tokenized money
Tokenized Deposits May Not Outperform Stablecoins, Says BlackRock
Great point from the @BlackRock head of digital assets on tokenized deposits Its not clear why they're better than Stablecoins for many use cases They may in fact be worse
AI Automates Expense Reporting, Ending Manual Submissions
Claude just did my expenses across 5 Gmail accounts and submitted the receipts and memos to Ramp. There's now a weekly scheduled task and cron job to sweep for expenses and submit them. I'll never have to submit an expense report again....
Claude Automates Stack Setup, Making Deployment Effortless
Struggling to get a production stack together? Just get Claude to do it. Need to pay for it? Just get Claude to do it. Bit by bit autonomy is coming.
Auto‑research Lets Any Firm Rebrand Open‑source AI
Any company could do this with auto research Get the latest open source model. RL it to your use case with auto research. Release it with your name on it.
Inside Tempo Mainnet & Machine Payments with Liam Horn
Exclusive chat with @tempo product lead @liamihorne We cover the Tempo mainnet and Machine Payments Protocol Search for the Tokenized Podcast @TokenizedPod and subscribe so you don't miss it Drops Monday 👇 https://t.co/vQE3be52gF
From Attention to Intention: Building the Machine Payments Protocol
Every ad impression, every recommendation algorithm, every retargeting pixel — all of it monetizes the space where human intent is unclear. Agents collapse that space to zero. An agent arrives with a mandate. Get me X. Budget Y. Constraints Z. - No attention...
Mastercard Embeds Stablecoin Layer via $1.8B BVNK Acquisition
🚨 MASSIVE: Mastercard just acquired BVNK for $1.8B. This one hits different. --- BVNK had a rough road. Previous acqusitions that fell through. Competing against massive companies. But they made it. Now they're the stablecoin infrastructure layer inside the world's second-largest card network. 130+ countries....
Switching to Codex After Claude’s Code Disappointments
Claude code has over eagerly done enough stupid stuff that I'm coming around to codex.
Crypto Shifts Toward Virtual Cards, Fintech Takes Note
All of crypto is pivoting to virtual cards and it's so weird to me as a fintech guy. Like yeah. It's a virtual card?
Free AI Dashboard Gives Retail Investors Bloomberg-Level Insights
Perplexity just gave every retail investor a Bloomberg Terminal. For free. Watch this demo. It's wild. @perplexity_ai connects to brokerage accounts via @Plaid and builds a custom investment dashboard in seconds. Perplexity Computer pulls from 40+ live finance tools like: - SEC filings -...
Agentic Commerce Hype Spikes, Timing Of
The thirst for mindshare in agentic commerce and payments is UNHINGED rn. Everyone knows it will go parabolic. Nobody knows when. Such a weird dynamic.
Virtual Addresses Eliminate Sweep Transactions—Join Tempo’s Design Partner Program
Virtual addresses solve having to do sweep transactions We're building @tempo around design partners feedback Come shape the future with us.
Personal AI Agents Underwhelm; Basics only, Hype Overblown
I hate to say it But having a personal agent with openclaw hasn't been a GAME CHANGER or LIFE CHANGING It has been like raising a child who has a goldfish like memory but unlimited potential to get stuff done. The basics...
Private Credit Drain Threatens Compute Expansion Funding
If private credit sucks liquidity out of the market The hyperscalers max out their cash Then there isn't enough money in the world for the compute build out
Agentic Commerce Starts with Cards, Moves to Stablecoins
Agentic commerce will use cards first, then stablecoins. The "stablecoins agentic payments" discourse is missing so much nuance. @nlevine19 did a great job starting the conversation. I think we can go much further. Here's my thesis: https://t.co/yNzQdwx3hS
Discussing Agents, Payments, and Stablecoins at Hackathon
Stopping by the @Nevermined_ai Hackathon tomorrow for a fireside chat. Looking to chat agents and payments and stablecoins. Come say hi. https://t.co/L3BKo8zuvR
AI Doom Loop Triggers 4,000 Layoffs, 24% Stock Plunge
New piece from me The AI Doom Loop has started Block fired 4,000 people. Stock ripped 24%, Was AI the Excuse or Reason or Both? https://t.co/cgZ6m2HSv7
Kalshi Uses Public Enforcement to Signal Legitimacy
Fascinating to see @Kalshi taking so much action on alleged insider trading Legitimacy through very public enforcement. It's like an inverse regulation by enforcement. It's enforcement by industry to demonstrate being regulated. Kalshi accuses MrBeast editor of insider trading : NPR https://t.co/3sI6leeiBM
OCC's Stablecoin Rulemaking Sparks Yield Uncertainty
The OCC just dropped its proposed rulemaking for stablecoins. Stablecoins have a law now, but they don't have regulation. That's what the big banks and institutions are waiting for. What does it mean for yield? 👇 https://t.co/UL2amptKUw
GENIUS Act Opens 60-Day Comment Period on Stablecoin Rules
The GENIUS Act rules just dropped 60 days for comments Digging in to this today
Fintech Charters Once Unlikely, Now Industry Standard
About 3 years ago @aleximm said to me, he believes long term fintech companies would apply for charters. At the height of ZIRP, I disagreed. It seemed all downside. Now the world is upside down. Every tech company wants a charter. How times have...
Payoneer Pursues OCC Trust Charter, Stablecoin Insights
Payoneer is applied for an OCC National Trust Charter Head of Stablecoins Rob Morgan gave @TokenizedPod an exclusive interview: https://t.co/X8PzdyA5AB
Meta's Stablecoin RFPs Target 3 Billion Users
🤯 WOW Meta just sent stablecoin RFPs to crypto infrastructure firms. Are 3 billion users are about to get stablecoin wallets? https://t.co/VVOC3pQp06
Modern Treasury Redefines PSP Standards for 2026
Modern Treasury just became a PSP competing with Stripe and Adyen. But that undersells it massively. What they really did was rethink what a PSP needs to be in 2026. 👇 https://t.co/UQF88miBKC
Push‑to‑Card Enables Instant Fiat Payouts From Stablecoins
Push to Card solves a major issue for off-ramping. Often getting stablecoins anywhere was easy. Getting them to fiat was hard. Pushing the stablecoins to cards does two things 1. Gets there instantly/24*7 2. Can be spent as fiat instantly For payouts use cases its a...
Crypto Prices Drop, Institutional Adoption Lag Grows
The gap between crypto price and institutional adoption is growing. The more the price goes down. The more actual utility arrives. I feel like these needs some sort of law. Although perhaps sods law applies.
Uber Kiosks Let Travelers Ride Without a Smartphone
🚨 WOAH: Uber just launched kiosks at LaGuardia Airport. The disruption of taxis is nearly compete. No app. No phone. Walk up, pick a destination, tap to pay, get a paper receipt with your ride details. Powered by Adyen terminals. --- This is the bit...
Stablecoins Could Drain $6 T From Banks
How do Stablecoins pull $6 trillion out of banks If the *entire* market cap of stablecoins is estimated to be $2 trillion by 2030? 🤔
Stablecoins Emerging as Default for Cross‑Border Payouts
Global payouts are becoming default stablecoins Especially for cross-border. Here's a practical guide to evaluating when and how to use stablecoins for this use case
Visa Direct Integrates Stablecoins Into $1.7T Payout Network
EXCLUSIVE: Visa Direct's $1.7 trillion payout network just added stablecoin infrastructure. I spoke with @BVNKFinance Co-Founder Chris Harmse about what this actually means. 🎬 Full clip below. https://t.co/ptKhqD8e3b
Revolut Poised to Dominate Stablecoin Market by 2025
Revolut processed $1.2B in stablecoins last month. That's on track to beat $10.5B in stablecoin transfers in 2025. 87% growth. 30-40% of transactions are a few hundred dollars. - That's rent. - That's freelancer payments. - That's family sending money home. It's a massively changing...
Banks Must Evolve for Stablecoins, Says Production Team
This show was insanely good. A way to think about how banks need to adapt to stablecoins. From a team who's in production.
Stablecoin Firms Must Tighten AML and Sanctions Controls Now
Incredible work by @mikulaja @kontigo_app was at best a naive puppet for sanctions violations At worst a knowing participant. The whole stablecoin industry is on notice Get your AML and Sanctions controls buttoned up or there will be blowback It's when not...
Loan Caps Drive High‑risk Borrowers to Loan Sharks
You realize this will push many more customers towards loan sharks? The cap excludes high risk customers. Now they don't get loans at all.
Copilot‑Stripe Checkout Launches, Poised for 2026 E‑commerce Surge
🚨 Microsoft Co-pilot is now a checkout in a partnership with Stripe. 100m new checkouts 😳 --- Stripe is has enabled Copilot Checkout inside Microsoft Copilot. The enterprise LLM has more than 100m monthly active users. This partnership allows users in the US to...
Tempo's TIP-20 Enhances Stablecoins with Memos and Filters
One of the tiny details I love about Tempo is TIP-20 the token standard It extends the most popular stablecoin standard with some quality of life features like - Memo's for reconciliation - Block/allow lists And *so* much more. Dive in...
Fintech Professionals Share Their Most Bizarre Real‑World Tales
LinkedIn Fintech nerds. I'm writing something in a couple of weeks and I need your help. Share your war stories. What's the weirdest most "how is this even reality" story from Fintech? Comment below or DM if you want to stay anon.
