George

[George @0xGeom]

@merklefruit @ElevenLabs @umia_finance Loved this @merklefruit - Would you mind sending the prompt and what assets you used?

[Ishmael Asad @AsadIshmael]

Own something

[Elizabeth Yin 💛 @dunkhippo33]

1/ Sharing our deal stats for September 2026:

1,922 companies submitted pitches to Hustle Fund last month. Here's what we saw, including why we passed, what valuations looked like, and what founders are building. Read on >>

[nicolas @merklefruit]

time to win

[nicolas @merklefruit]

i asked Opus 5.5 + @ElevenLabs to explain @umia_finance and this is what it came up with

[George @0xGeom]

@mhui1109 @newmuseum @ElevenLabs @profound @betaworks Do you have the link to the creative breakfast club @betaworks ?

[Philip Decker @philip0x]

agents spending onchain and hodling onchain is inevitable.

Tho I think it starts with onchain credit….bc on-ramping is annoying.

enable agents to spend with onchain credit, and then offer them an onchain savings/debit product with killer yield.

[Liz Wessel @lizwessel]

You know how VC firms were all booking SF movie theaters for screenings of the Odyssey? Well...

[George @0xGeom]

New York City before the storm

[George @0xGeom]

@CoinDesk @coinbase @brian_armstrong Businesses don't pay for everything upfront, and their agents won’t either. On-chain Agent credit solutions will be next.

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

INSIGHT: @Coinbase CEO @brian_armstrong says "The number of agents will keep growing. Crypto and stablecoins will be their go-to payment rail."

[Chuk @chuk_xyz]

Stablecoins are making Visa and Mastercard harder to disrupt

Several developments point in the same direction:
• SoFi is moving its card program, expected to process more than $25B annually, to SoFiUSD settlement on Mastercard.
• Reap and Visa are expanding stablecoin-linked card issuing to 100+ markets globally.
• Visa is giving Credit Coop access to settlement data to support financing for card programs.

Card programs are becoming easier to launch, fund and run.

Running a card program means keeping funds available to meet settlement obligations.

Banking cutoffs and weekend closures can leave operators holding larger buffers than they would otherwise need.

Stablecoin settlement lets participants move those funds outside banking hours, reducing the need for large prefunded balances.

@creditcoop_xyz addresses the financing still required. Visa settlement data helps lenders assess exposure, while automated repayment from receivables gives them more control over getting paid.

Less idle capital and better access to financing could make more card programs viable to launch and scale, bringing more activity onto Visa and Mastercard, not less.

So stablecoins end up lowering the cost of participating in the networks they also compete with.

And those networks already have the merchant acceptance and consumer habits that new payment systems spend years trying to build.

[Jake Brukhman @jbrukh]

When @BlackRock is telling you that AI and crypto are converging, believe them.