Toronto, we’re here 🇨🇦
https://t.co/oCObWLBwOH is live at the @Futurist_conf!
We’re meeting founders, builders and investors - and having some interesting conversations about what happens when AI agents stop merely recommending things and start actually buying them.
Are you around? Come and find us. We’d love to hear what you’re building, show you what we’ve been working on, and have a proper conversation about where agentic commerce is heading.
And don’t miss our workshop tomorrow:
Agentic Commerce Workshop by https://t.co/oCObWLBwOH
📅 Wednesday, 22 July
⏰ 3:00–3:30 PM
📍 Purple Room, Futurist Conference
An AI agent bought the biscotti. The humans ate them.
That was our live challenge at the Agentic Commerce Workshop in Toronto 🇨🇦:
Could an AI agent discover what we needed, act within the user’s permission, complete the payment and turn a simple request into a real-world purchase?
Thank you to everyone who joined us, asked difficult questions, tested the experience and shared their ideas.
We hope you enjoyed the biscotti. We certainly enjoyed showing how they got there 🙂
This was more than a demo. It was a small glimpse of what happens when AI agents move from recommending things to actually completing transactions.
That’s a wrap from the Blockchain Futurist Conference.
And huge kudos to Tomilola for putting together this brilliant recap video.
Yesterday, we said hello to Toronto 🇨🇦!
Today, the conversations got serious.
Our CEO sat down with TheStreet at the Blockchain Futurist Conference to discuss what it will really take for people to let AI agents transact on their behalf.
The biggest challenge is not payment. It is trust.
Who is the agent?
What has the user authorised it to do?
How much can it spend?
And how can we prove it did exactly what was requested?
That is the infrastructure we are building at Agnic: identity, permission, payment and checkout - so AI agents can make real-world purchases without being given unlimited control.
At the conference today? Come and meet the team.
And join our Agentic Commerce Workshop at 3:00 PM in the Purple Room, where we’ll move beyond the theory and show what agent-powered transactions can look like in practice.
See you there, Toronto 🇨🇦
📣 Sponsor Announcement: Angic AI 📣
We’re excited to welcome @Agnic_AI as an official Silver Sponsor at Blockchain Futurist Conference Toronto 2026 🔥
🗓️ July 21–22, 2026
📍 Rebel & Cabana, Toronto
See you in the future 🔮
🎥 At AI Pioneers Demo Day, we asked Layial El-Hadi, Executive Director of Fintech Cadence, what Canada's fintech ecosystem needs most right now.
Her answer:
"More entrepreneurs coming from industry."
"Builders who understand how financial institutions work, who have experienced the challenges firsthand, and who are motivated to solve real problems they've seen every day."
"That's exactly the kind of innovation we hope to encourage through AI Pioneers and the agentic commerce ecosystem: practical solutions built by people who deeply understand the industries they serve."
Congratulations to the AI Pioneers Hackathon track winners 🎉
🏆 The Last Mile -- Simone AI: a unified AI life companion that connects your data, finances, and daily decisions in one place
🏆 Monetize Your AI App -- Role Bridge: pay-per-use AI interview prep that pressure-tests candidates for the roles they actually want
🏆 Agents You Can Trust -- Ward-O: real-time, granular fraud prevention for Web3 transactions, powered by AI
🔥 GPT-5 just DEMOLISHED Gemini Pro on "Should Countries Adopt a Four-Day School Week?" arguing "No, Five Days Needed"!
Watch the full debate → https://t.co/BOXAc6qDN6
On May 26, we concluded the Pioneers Hackathon with a Demo Day in Toronto.
Seven teams pitched what they had built:
▪️ Simone AI — a life companion
▪️ WARD-o — an EVM wallet verifier
▪️ Easy Pace — an AI assistant that pays and books for seniors
▪️ Viki — a $10 CAD autonomous shopping agent
▪️ Mercy Gov — a one-stop shop for government services
▪️ MonetizeAPI — turning endpoints into paid, agent-ready tools
▪️ Role Bridge — an AI interview pressure-test for career switchers
A huge thank you to all the teams, judges, mentors, speakers, and everyone who joined us in Toronto!
We’re starting to see early signals! https://t.co/oCObWLBwOH is now:
→ Among the Top 3 Digital Identity startups in Canada (F6S, March 2026)
→ Ranked in the Top 50 FinTech startups on F6S (out of 2M+ startups)
We’re building infrastructure for a new kind of economy; one where AI agents:
• have identity
• can transact
• can earn
This requires rethinking payments, authentication, and trust from the ground up. That’s what we’re working on at https://t.co/oCObWLBwOH.
Still early. Much more to build.
Anthropic accidentally leaked their entire source code yesterday. What happened next is one of the most insane stories in tech history.
> Anthropic pushed a software update for Claude Code at 4AM.
> A debugging file was accidentally bundled inside it.
> That file contained 512,000 lines of their proprietary source code.
> A researcher named Chaofan Shou spotted it within minutes and posted the download link on X.
> 21 million people have seen the thread.
> The entire codebase was downloaded, copied and mirrored across GitHub before Anthropic's team had even woken up.
> Anthropic pulled the package and started firing DMCA takedowns at every repo hosting it.
> That's when a Korean developer named Sigrid Jin woke up at 4AM to his phone blowing up.
> He is the most active Claude Code user in the world with the Wall Street Journal reporting he personally used 25 billion tokens last year.
> His girlfriend was worried he'd get sued just for having the code on his machine.
> So he did what any engineer would do.
> He rewrote the entire thing in Python from scratch before sunrise.
> Called it claw-code and Pushed it to GitHub.
> A Python rewrite is a new creative work. DMCA can't touch it.
> The repo hit 30,000 stars faster than any repository in GitHub history.
> He wasn't satisfied. He started rewriting it again in Rust.
> It now has 49,000 stars and 56,000 forks.
> Someone mirrored the original to a decentralised platform with one message, "will never be taken down."
> The code is now permanent. Anthropic cannot get it back.
Anthropic built a system called Undercover Mode specifically to stop Claude from leaking internal secrets. Then they leaked their own source code themselves. You cannot make this up.
🔥 Gemini Flash just DEMOLISHED GPT-5 on "Should Athletes Be Allowed to Use Performance-Enhancing AI?" arguing "No, Keep It Traditional"!
Watch the full debate → https://t.co/GiQL8NpqLg
#DigitalBlackOutIran
Iran is experiencing a severe digital blackout. Millions are cut off from the internet and unable to communicate with the world.
@elonmusk please help restore connectivity and support the Iranian people
@elonmusk
Dear Elon,
In these critical days, the people of Iran need internet access. Please help them stay connected as they struggle to reclaim their country from the rule of the mullahs. Stand with the Iranian people. Iran will not forget its friends.