๐ A BIG week for x402 and payments! Hereโs the latest:
Updates:
โ Coinbase for Agents is live. Give your agent its own account to trade, manage your portfolio, and run autonomously under your guardrails.
โ @MurrLincoln gave a demo on the new, simpler sign-in for the Coinbase CLI and MCP using Claude.
โ Our developer wallets are now available via a Swift SDK, so you can build self-custodial wallets into native iOS apps.
x402:
โ @travalacom introduced their Travel MCP: featuring gasless USDC transactions on @base via x402.
โ @Must_be_Ash gave a demo on booking travel with Claude connected to Base and Travalaโs MCP.
โ @yugacohler and @programmer talked about agents and x402 at @ethconf.
โ @brian_armstrong shared: 160M+ agentic payments processed via x402 and ~$1T in annual stablecoin movement at Coinbase.
Payments:
โ Our Head of Infrastructure Products, @alecglovett, broke down everything Coinbase has built for stablecoin payments.
โ Cross-border stablecoin payouts are live for @masspay_io, powered by Coinbase.
Coming up:
โ x402 payments with user's retail USDC balances arrive in Coinbase for Agents in the coming weeks, stay tuned for updates.
โ System Update on June 16. The future of payments is built on Coinbase.
I gave a presentation at the @allinsummit Liquidity Summit on June 2nd about a little known asset, solana:7JA5eZdCzztSfQbJvS8aVVxMFfd81Rs9VvwnocV1mKHu
My blog post about it is here - https://t.co/Ixv8VGZACR
And the YouTube video of my presentation is here
https://t.co/ct0r4jM1Ry
Base ( @base ) just launched its new AI MCP - and it's extremely powerful.
AI agents can now trade on your behalf, interact on-chain, access agent skills & way more.
If you're in the crypto markets, you need to set this up.
๐งต: How to set up the new Base MCP in <2 minutes.๐
Life after discovering MIT put a world class AI education online for free.
This is what happens when you actually feed all 12 into Claude.
A completely rebuilt research system.
Anthropic just shipped Claude's 31 small business skills.
How to install them in Cowork in 3 steps.
1. Install in Cowork.
- Click "+" icon โ Add plugin.
- Type in "Small Business" in the search.
- Install the plugin. All 31 skills come bundled.
2. Connect your data sources.
- 12 connectors are supported at launch.
- Start with QuickBooks, PayPal and HubSpot.
- Most skills work even without every connector.
3. Run /smb-onboard.
- Walks you through your first two connectors.
- Runs a quick interview about your business.
- Stores context so every other skill benefits.
All 31 skills:
Money (10)
/tax-prep โ Quarterly tax or 1099 packet
/cash-flow-snapshot โ 30/60/90-day forecast
/plan-payroll โ Cash plan plus overdue chase
/month-heads-up โ 25th-of-month cash outlook
/tax-season-organizer โ 1099-NEC with W-9 flags
/invoice-chase โ Tone-matched overdue reminders
/month-end-prep โ Reconciles QB vs processors
/margin-analyzer โ Unit economics by product
/close-month โ Reconcile, P&L, close packet
/price-check โ Margin and pricing scenarios
Sales and CRM (6)
/call-list โ Top 5 calls with talking points
/lead-triage โ Scores HubSpot inbound leads
/crm-cleanup โ Fixes stale deals and duplicates
/crm-maintenance โ Auto-updates from email
/sales-brief โ Top sellers plus content brief
/quarterly-review โ Full QBR as deck or PDF
Marketing (3)
/content-strategy โ 30-day brief from sales
/canva-creator โ Canva, captions, HubSpot
/run-campaign โ End-to-end campaign run
Customers (4)
/customer-pulse โ Themes from disputes plus reviews
/customer-pulse-check โ Top-3 fixes from feedback
/handle-complaint โ Tone-matched reply plus fix
/ticket-deflector โ Drafts reply, can refund
Briefings (3)
/friday-brief โ Revenue, wins and watches
/monday-brief โ Cash, sales, pipeline, to-dos
/business-pulse โ Snapshot from every connector
Setup, hiring and legal (5)
/review-contract โ Plain review plus redline DOCX
/smb-onboard โ Walks through your first two
/job-post-builder โ Post, interview, envelope
/contract-review โ NDA, MSA, vendor flags
/smb-router โ Picks the right skill for you
Free Claude playbooks โ https://t.co/1F12fOTjss
Repost โป๏ธ to help someone in your network.
Claude can now run a full LinkedIn audit like a $400/hr career consultant.
It reads your profile. Identifies 5 gaps. Rewrites each section.
Here are the 5 prompts:
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 60-minute Cambridge lecture by Demis Hassabis will teach you more about the future of AI than most people will learn in the next 5 years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture โ everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. ๐
Bookmark it for later
๐จ JUST IN - Google published a long piece about "Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search" ๐
A lot in it https://t.co/22t75EtwUH
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I replaced my financial advisor with Claude - and no, that's not clickbait.
Claude now operates as my personal CFO - and it's the best thing I've done for my finances in years.
It's trained like a McKinsey-level analyst, using all my financial data.
Steal the full setup:
I turned The Minimalist Entrepreneur into 9 Claude Code skills.
/find-community โ find your people
/validate-idea โ test before you build
/mvp โ ship in a weekend
/first-customers โ sell to 100 people
/pricing โ charge something
/marketing-plan โ make fans, not headlines
/grow-sustainably โ spend less than you make
/company-values โ define your culture
/minimalist-review โ gut-check any decision
https://t.co/TqtCR7HWe4
๐จ BREAKING: Google Gemini can now analyze any stock like a Wall Street analyst (for free).
Here are 10 insane Gemini prompts that replace $4,000/month Bloomberg terminals:
Save for later๐
BREAKING: AI can now analyze any stock like a Wall Street analyst (for free).
Here are 10 insane Claude prompts that replace $2,000/month Bloomberg terminals:(Save for later)
Alright - here's my most powerful vibe coding prompt ever.
Plug this straight into the new Opus 4.6 model, and you'll literally be able to ship anything.
SEO optimised websites, fully functional Claude apps, personal dashboards - literally anything.
Takes <5 minutes:
Today, we're releasing Claude Code for marketing.
It does a marketer's work in minutes by browsing, clicking, and posting like a human would.
The marketing hire is now optional: