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Can AI agents actually pull off DeFi exploits?
We asked whether off-the-shelf AI could turn DeFi vulnerabilities into real exploits. The answer was… complicated.
Apr 29
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Daejun Park
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Matt Gleason
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Stablecoins are going local
A new picture is emerging of what stablecoins are for
Apr 25
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Robert Hackett
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Jeremy Zhang
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Agents are starting to operate real systems — who’s actually in control?
As agents start to govern real systems, who controls the models behind them? Plus, four more ways blockchains can help provide the missing…
Apr 18
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Christian Catalini
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Andy Hall
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Noah Levine
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Christian Crowley
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A guide to perpetual futures: How they work and why they're growing so quickly
The rise of perps, the shift onchain, and the emerging builder opportunity
Apr 11
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Jay Drain Jr.
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Entering the era of the headless merchant
Agent-native payment rails are live — and so are the merchants.
Apr 8
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Noah Levine
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'Open Agentic Commerce' and the end of ads
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The missing legal layer for DAOs
A better path for decentralized governance is gaining traction across states and major crypto communities
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Exchanges won’t build the next layer of finance. Founders will.
Core financial plumbing is starting to be rebuilt onchain
Mar 29
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Blockchains are fast enough for finance. Now what?
We need to solve much more than just throughput to truly compete with existing financial infrastructure.
Mar 25
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Pranav Garimidi
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Joachim Neu
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Max Resnick
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'Open Agentic Commerce' and the end of ads
Agents are making ads obsolete. Open protocols and a 28-year-old idea are giving the internet a native business model.
Mar 21
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Samuel Ragsdale
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Your product won’t sell itself
A playbook for hiring the roles, building the process, and scaling enterprise sales
Mar 14
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Jason Rosenthal
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What founders get wrong about selling to enterprises
Why enterprise deals aren't won on "better" tech alone — and what founders can do.
Mar 11
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Christian Crowley
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AI just gave you superpowers
A conversation on shrinking teams, agents-as-coworkers, and the role of humans in the emerging AI economy
Mar 7
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