Agent Payments Defy Human Fraud Models
I hadn’t thought about this until @robbiepetersen_ said it: agent behavior looks nothing like human behavior. So card network fraud models may be useless for agentic payments. https://t.co/ouC5FjfUrY
Generative AI Turns Transactions Into Human‑Centric Loyalty
Engagement drives loyalty. Generative AI allows financial institutions to move beyond transactions and deliver proactive, human-centered experiences. https://t.co/QeRC2HMzbF
Ignore “Crypto Is Dead” Hype, Build Future Payments
Every cycle i hear "crypto is dead" and every cycle the teams that ignored the noise and kept building ended up spawning the best products. We're building the future of onchain payments at @0xPolygon right now and barely anyone is talking...
AI Unlocks Financial Insight—Verify, Protect, and Decide
One of the biggest benefits of AI is access. If you've ever wanted deeper insights into your finances but didn't have the visibility here's one way to work around it. But remember: AI is experimental. It can hallucinate numbers. Always review the...
AI Agents Simplify Features, but Stripe Auth Remains Tedious
Using AI coding agents to implement new features is exciting. You know what’s not? Integrating with Stripe or setting up auth using Better Auth - it’s just a continuous slog of trial and error. 😭
Accredited Investor Law Keeps Stablecoin Yield From Retail
Retail does NOT Deserve yield on Stablecoins. The accredited investor law has achieved its goal.
Western Union Poised to Profit From Stablecoins
I started looking at Western Union because I thought stablecoins would kill it. Then I realized WU is better positioned than almost anyone to leverage them. Brand, distribution, 200+ countries, $923M in EBITDA. The key risk was management. They had...
Tech Outpaces Rules: Regulations Still Catching Up
This feels so obvious but like any industry, the regulations are still developing and tech moves faster than rules
Human Social Structures, Not Payment Rails, Limit Commerce
I talked with @nlevine19 and @robbiepetersen_ about the future of commerce, and why the real bottleneck isn’t the payment rails. It’s human social structures. That shifted how I think about what agents actually need to solve for. Timestamps: 🔧 01:02 Why Noah thinks...
Financial Planning Software Moat Is Thin, Easily Replaced
what's the moat for financial planning software? one of my portfolio companies ripped it out and built their own...it was not hard.
AI Takes Over Finance as UX Vanishes
Neobanks gave us better UX Agentic finance gives us no UX The AI just handles it That's the shift
Single-Account Governance Led to $25M DeFi Exploit
$25 million stolen. In this episode of Uneasy Money, hosts @kaiynne, @tayvano_ & @LucaNetz are joined by @omeragoldberg to unpack the Resolv exploit and Aave v4 governance approval: 🤔 Why was the USR minting function governed by a single account? ⁉️ How did...
Walmart's OpenAI Exit Signals AI Model Battle for Finance
Walmart dropping OpenAI is hitting the headlines. What does this reveals about Agentic Commerce and what every Bank, Insurer, and Fintech should take from it? Which model will financial institutions choose when AI agents start selecting and purchasing financial products on...
Invisible AI: Finance Benefits Without Seeing the Model
The best AI harness for finance will be invisible You won't see the model You'll see the outcome Faster settlements Better risk management Smarter capital allocation The tool disappears when it actually works
Stablecoin Yield Talks Remain Complex, Senate Chair Says
LATEST: 🇺🇸 Senate Banking Committee chair Tim Scott says the stablecoin yield debate is complex, with banks and crypto firms like Coinbase still at the table negotiating https://t.co/guK3dR2LRR
Digital Credit: Blueprint for Billion‑Dollar Finance Companies
“The best way to build a billion-dollar finance company today is Digital Credit.” $STRC My keynote, “Digital Capital, Credit, Money, and Yield,” at the @Blockworks Digital Asset Summit 2026. https://t.co/YZ8lzp5uis
Kalshi Dedicates up to 15% Staff to Market Integrity
At the Kalshi conference this morning. COO Luana Lopes Lara just noted that 10-15 percent of the company’s team is devoted to market intregrity, preventing insider trading etc https://t.co/kvA31jTP0B
Startup Evaluation Metrics Shifting Beyond Headcount and Capital
What’s changing is how we evaluate startups. The old metrics around headcount and capital are being rewritten in real time. https://t.co/ZtzGkZRjgM
Only Half of APAC Banks Harness AI’s 70% Value Potential
A survey of APAC’s banks in 2025 found that four functions—customer relationships, customer service, innovation, and IT—were so important that they were expected to contribute more than 70% of AI value. The problem, however, is that while half of APACs are...
Privacy Solution Arrives for DeFi: Introducing STRK20
Privacy is one of the most important missing pieces for DeFi adoption. We're building it. STRK20 is coming soon. https://t.co/1qXEkrjvY9
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....
Coinbase's Sports‑Bet Spam Marks Major Crypto Misstep
Coinbase spamming its users to bully them into sports gambling might turn out to be one of the great unforced errors for the blunder-prone crypto exchange
Digital Credit Redefines Yield with Stretch $STRC
“11% is a big number.” “Am I offending you if I call it a money market fund?” - @SullyCNBC Digital Credit is redefining yield. Today we discussed Stretch $STRC on @PowerLunch. https://t.co/oirw3PGZBi
Stablecoins Transform Cross‑Border Payments and Beyond
.@AndyE_NH has published a new @NHInsight blog post: 'The Impact of #Stablecoin: Cross-Border #Payments & Beyond' – https://t.co/PWu3toWRwm #Tokenization #Crypto #GENIUSact #Digitalization https://t.co/9jB5xC0o9c
We Built the Finance Tool AI Agents Use
Every finance tool is adding an AI chatbot. We went the other direction — we made @tryramp the tool that AI agents use. curl -fsSL https://t.co/dtP4f5DrW5 | bash
Prediction Markets Become ARK’s New Investment Insight Engine
At @ARKInvest, we’re always looking for new tools that can sharpen our research and improve how we make investment decisions. Prediction markets are not just a new derivatives market — they represent a powerful new way to quantify risk and...
AI Agents Bring Expertise to Democratized DeFi
Here's the thing about DeFi We democratized access but not expertise Agentic finance changes that AI agents that understand yield farming, risk management, and optimal execution paths Finally, the promise of financial inclusion meets actual capability
Stripe MPP vs Coinbase X402: Which Wins?
Stripe’s MPP vs Coinbase’s x402. Two very different visions for agent payments. Which model wins? https://t.co/9SSDq5hVSn
Governments Won’t Embrace Digital Payments Anytime Soon
"You'd be crazy to assume that governments will be adopting payments in the next couple of years." https://t.co/meE1SvxnF0
Strategic Thinkers, Not Just Tech, Future‑Proof Lending
Technology alone won’t future-proof your institution. You need strategic thinkers who can anticipate change, not just react to it. Download the State of Digital Lending report: https://t.co/0wah7wPuXN https://t.co/Vo5PYR9wWL
Finance Ops Drives 45% AI Agent Market Surge
the ai agents market grew from $8.29 billion in 2025 to $12.06 billion in 2026. that's 45.5% year over year. and finance operations is the number one entry point. 33% of enterprise leaders are piloting agentic ai in finance ops first, ahead...
AI Agents Trigger Payment Wars Among Tech Giants
Stripe. Coinbase. Visa. Everyone is building for AI agents. Now LIVE on Unchained, we unpack the battle for the payment layer of the agent economy. https://t.co/meE1SvxnF0
Payments Become the New Battleground in the Agent Economy
The Battle for Payments in the Agent Economy w/ Noah Levine & Robbie Petersen https://t.co/9SSDq5hVSn
Crypto Landscape Shifts: Major Deals, ETFs, and Regulation
Crypto things you might have missed: -Coinbase crushes stablecoin yield deal -Fannie Mae launches crypto-backed mortgages -Hashdex Nasdaq ETF adds ADA & LINK -Visa taps Canton Network -MARA sells $1.1B BTC to fund debt buyback -SEC: Tokenization innovation exemption incoming
Record Gross Sales, Log Fees as Separate Expense
If you’re using Stripe or Square, this is a CFO conversation. You make a $100 sale. $97 hits your bank. What’s hitting your P&L as revenue? If it’s $97, your reporting is off. Revenue is recorded gross. Fees are recorded separately as an expense. That $3 is...
Banks Must Measure AI Impact, Not Training Completion
Redesign Work, Realize AI: How Banks Must Measure and Reorganize to Turn AI from Experiments into Durable ROI Stop measuring training completions. Start measuring: cycle time, cost-to-serve, throughput, risk outcomes. Three-dimension framework: capability adoption (role-specific literacy, agent management) + workflow transformation...
Bilt Offers 125% Transfer Bonus, Only for Wyndham
Bilt Unveils A 125% Transfer Bonus For Rent Day — But It Is To Wyndham - View from the Wing https://t.co/iD73OsRnNk
Seeking Best US Money Transfer App For
What’s the best app for someone in the US to use to send money to me? Tap Tap Send?
Fintech's Everyday Impact Explained by World Economic Forum
#WhatsNext? #Fintech is changing our lives today. But what is it exactly? (World Economic Forum) https://t.co/9IGoQXZmVM
Fintech Hype Proved Wrong as Synapse Collapses
Isn’t this just a paraphrasing of @astrange’s “every company will be a fintech” thesis? Which not only didn’t come true, but saw thousands of consumers lose millions of dollars when Synapse, which Strange was a board member of, catastrophically collapsed.
Bookkeepers See Only, Can't Spend Your Money
Something I wish more people knew before working with a bookkeeper — when I connect to your bank account, I get view-only access. That means I can see statements and activity but I genuinely cannot transfer money, pay anyone, or...
Tokenized Money Market Funds Extend the Bank Walk
My friend @biancoresearch used to call it the bank walk from checking accounts to money market funds. From firsthand experience, paying all my bills via a tokenized money market fund, the bank walk is destined to continue IMO even if most...
Banks Fear Profit Flight, Not Deposit Flight, Over Stablecoins
With stablecoins, the banks aren't worried about deposit flight. They're worried about profit flight. These numbers are embarrassing. https://t.co/JZICGB5MWv
Finance, AI, and Integration Talk at GetJustPaid Event
thank you to everyone who came out yesterday to the @getjustpaid and @RilletHQ event. great room, great conversations, and a lot of strong thinking around finance, ai, and where things are headed. more to come soon, including our upcoming integration with rillet....
Lending Protocols Must Scrutinize Asset Onboarding and Whitelisting
"Anyone who's running a lending protocol needs to think about the assets you are onboarding and whitelisting." https://t.co/P1vIs3eM4Z
ZEC Powers Private AI Platform Silo’s Payment Layer
“Why we chose ZEC as the payment layer for Silo, our private AI platform”—https://t.co/UFPqM53FCq https://t.co/wxZxEWbopF
Own Ideas Get Stolen; Prioritize Payment Service Decoupling
You're in a cross-functional strategy meeting, exhausted from trying to get your architecture proposal taken seriously. The senior developer repeats your exact idea verbatim as if he just invented it. Peer: (Leans back, steepling his fingers) "I've been thinking, what we really...
Invesco Acquires Superstate Tokenized MMF, Marking Trad
BOOM: Invesco to Acquire Superstate's USTB Tokenized MMF Management One of first acquisitions of a crypto-native fund by TradFi asset manager. TradFi now majority of top 10 tokenized MMFs $2.2T asset manager Invesco acquiring management of $USTB ($950M AUM, 5th largest tokenized...
Seeking Access to Test 100M Transactions Claim
Supposedly 100M x402 transactions for $30M in payments volume Where can I try this myself?
Trayd Raises $10M, Slashes Payroll Time 28x
Congrats to Trayd on their $10M Series A! Specialty trade contractors deal with union rules, multistate labor laws, and a ton of manual back-office work. Trayd automates payroll, HR, and compliance for them, cutting a 14-hour weekly process down to under...