Hugh Akston

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[Hugh Akston @BtcEthLink]

@cryptojoyboy Yes

[Chainlink @chainlink]

x402 by @coinbase is now the first AI payments partner for the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE).

https://t.co/3U3RZUSDZg

x402 is a protocol launched by Coinbase that enables APIs, apps, and AI agents to transact seamlessly over HTTP.

Through this partnership, AI agents can discover, trigger, and pay for CRE workflows leveraging x402’s programmable payments layer, unlocking:

• Programmatic payouts from proprietary data—Chainlink ensures data authenticity, CRE enables execution, and x402 orchestrates payments between agents and providers.

• Monetizing CRE workflows—Builders can publish public or private workflows that anyone, including agents, can pay to use.

• An onchain, native protocol stack for agentic workflows—AI agents discover CRE workflows, verify results with Chainlink, pay autonomously using x402, and settle real-world outcomes onchain.

This marks a major shift from manual transactions to economically expressive AI that can participate directly in the onchain economy.

[Hugh Akston @BtcEthLink]

@MrBeast 7,534,525

[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission @SECGov]

Chairman @SECPaulSAtkins: "Over the past year, we have moved purposefully to answer President Trump’s call to make America the Crypto Capital of the World . . . We are taking historic steps to modernize our rules and regulations to facilitate markets' moving on-chain."

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

The Clarity Act is not the finish line. It is the starting gun.

[Bluntz @Bluntz_Capital]

just like weekly bear divs were an amazing predictor of the bull market top on $SOL, it also cuts both ways.

if you're bearish down here im sorry but you are clinically retarded.

[Ansem 🐂🀄️ @blknoiz06]

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[Gacho.CRE ⬡ @0xGachoCCIP]

🚨 DTCC MAINNET ADDED 🚨

DTCC MAINNET APPCHAIN IS NOW SUPPORTED BY CHAINLINK

#Chainlink #CCIP #DTCC $LINK #LinkTheWorld #CRE @The_DTCC

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

My advice to Jamie Dimon? Grab a chair, find a good spot on the beach, and actually read this bill over July 4th. His concerns have been addressed — section 301 handles them directly. We have 16 provisions protecting against illicit finance. He is just simply mistaken.

[Hugh Akston @BtcEthLink]

This one’s a banger
@chainlink

[Chainlink @chainlink]

money shouldn't have business hours

[Benjamin Cowen @benjamincowen]

$LINK was $39 yesterday.
Today it is almost $50

[Hugh Akston @BtcEthLink]

Hard to imagine anyone believes this

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

If Elon Musk paid my ultra-millionaire wealth tax, we could pay for child care for all three and four year olds in America.

[mert @mert]

"ive been in office for 13 years and our yearly budget is 7 trillion but we can't help children unless we steal from the guy doing spaceflight"

[Rocketshipalx @rocketshipalx]

My thoughts after 3 months in the US/Texas🇺🇸:

- Americans are way more extroverted than Europeans
- Talking to strangers is normal here
- My first H-E-B trip felt like Boris Yeltsin seeing an American grocery store
- Some food is more artificial, but the amount of choices is insane
- You can still eat healthy. You just have to choose it
- High risk, high reward is real
- Way more people are entrepreneurial
- People dream bigger than in Europe, and they actually execute
- Obv not everyone is smarter, but the smart people are world-class
- Successful people here are way more down-to-earth. In Europe, successful people care about status and can be arrogant
- Cars. Enough said
- Americans have perfected artificial sweets
- There’s still more freedom here than in Europe
- One thing I didn’t expect: some Americans talk down on America
- As an outsider, that’s weird, because imo it’s still the greatest country on Earth🇺🇸🇺🇸

[DTCC @The_DTCC]

DTCC is approaching a live demonstration of tokenization using assets held at The Depository Trust Company (DTC).

To underscore the significance of this milestone, we break down what tokenization is, how it works, and how it may help enhance the efficiency, accessibility, and transparency of assets ownership.

Learn more about our tokenization initiatives: https://t.co/IQB5OSm6DB

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL: U.S. HAS SIGNED MOU WITH IRAN

[Chris Barrett @ChrisBarrett]

As I sit here in DC this week, we are closer to something I was not sure I would ever see.

I have been working in this industry since 2015. For most of those years, the defining feature of crypto in Washington was not policy. It was the absence of it. A gray zone where serious people built serious things under a constant cloud, never quite sure which rules applied or whether the ground would move beneath them.

This week the CLARITY Act sits on the Senate calendar. A federal framework for digital asset market structure, the thing this industry has wanted for the better part of a decade, is closer than it has ever been. It is not law yet, and there are real hurdles left. But the distance between where we stood a few years ago and where we are sitting today is hard to put into words.

I keep thinking about the work that got us here. Over the past year I watched Chainlink move from outside these conversations to inside them. Sergey at the White House for the signing of the GENIUS Act. The Department of Commerce putting government economic data onchain. Meetings with the SEC that became real interpretive guidance. Conversations with the lawmakers now writing the rules. None of that happens by accident. It happens because people keep showing up, year after year, and make the case in rooms where it is not yet obvious.

And there is something fitting in it. The entire premise of what we build is verification. Making truth provable. Removing the question of what is real. The work here in DC is the same thing in a different form. Trading a decade of ambiguity for something the industry has never actually had.

We are not at the finish line. But sitting here, it is hard not to feel the weight of it.

The gray zone is ending. What comes next is something this industry has never had.

Clarity.

[Hugh Akston @BtcEthLink]

@SatoshiFlipper I remember you calling the same in April/May 2021. Nailed it 👍

[Hugh Akston @BtcEthLink]

So when AP4M needs to settle a transaction from an Aave-powered credit line, across CCIP, to a Coinbase wallet, on Base, with Ripple's RLUSD as the settlement asset... Chainlink infrastructure is in that stack multiple times over, just not on the press release. $LINK @chainlink

[Mastercard @Mastercard]

As AI agents begin to act, payments move into the background — at machine speed and massive scale.

Today we’re introducing Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines — bringing structure, governance, and trust to this new class of payments.

Launching with 30+ partners to bring this to life from day one.

This isn’t just more payments. It’s a new operating model for commerce.

👉 Learn more: https://t.co/TeS6Lj8jLO

[Chainlink @chainlink]

AI outputs are prone to inaccuracies & hallucinations, creating a bottleneck for enterprise AI adoption.

Swift, UBS, Euroclear, & 20+ major organizations leveraged Chainlink to reduce AI hallucination risk and unlock automated corporate actions.

Chainlink 🤝 AI

[Hugh Akston @BtcEthLink]

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