The TON blockchain just got upgraded and is now 10× faster.
Block rate increased 6×.
Transactions are now instant, subsecond.
This was step 1 of 7 to Make TON Great Again (MTONGA).
Next step: cut the already low transaction fees by 6×.
🚨 @Mastercard has added @Solana to its Crypto Partner Program, a global initiative connecting traditional finance with the digital asset ecosystem.
The program brings together 85+ crypto-native firms, payments providers, and financial institutions to explore real-world payment use cases.
Introducing Privacy Aggregator Layer (PAL)
A new standard for Solana.
Solflare is the first wallet with a native built-in privacy layer.
PAL’s first feature Private Send (app + extension), lets you send crypto without revealing your wallet to the recipient:
• Optional per transfer
• Built into Send
• Fees shown before you confirm
• Processed in minutes
How it works ↓
The @openclaw incident exposed a new AI security reality.
Agents become vulnerable when three conditions overlap:
- Unrestricted access
- External communication
- Untrusted inputs
When agents can act, communicate, and learn from unverified sources, poisoning scales fast.
The problem isn’t smarter AI. It’s unverifiable inputs.
Perle introduces provenance and human verification at the data layer, grounding AI in verifiable reality.
“Why is Coinbase always misunderstood or under-appreciated by Wall Street?” - I got asked this today in our AMA with analysts, and it’s an interesting question. Sharing my answer here.
I do think Coinbase is a bit of a misunderstood company. It’s a classic innovator's dilemma.
On the one hand, the smartest traditional finance firms are all leaning in and embracing crypto. 5 of the GSIB banks are starting to work with Coinbase. Many of the largest financial institutions are actually hiring crypto people (check LinkedIn). As regulatory clarity is emerging, we're seeing ~50% of the big financial institutions really leaning in and embracing it.
On the other hand, the other half are lagging and still resisting it. I think some of these people are just inherently skeptical of crypto because of incentives - their whole careers have been built in the traditional financial system. They’re skeptical because it feels like a threat; it's human nature. You don’t go to the cab companies and ask them what they think about Uber. You don’t go to the horse and buggy makers and ask them what they think about the automobile.
The biggest disruptive innovations in the world have all followed this pattern. You can look at Uber, Airbnb, self-driving cars, AI adoption, even SpaceX versus NASA. Crypto is directly disrupting Wall Street, so it makes sense that some on Wall Street would misunderstand crypto/Coinbase. The smartest ones are going to embrace it. The laggards are going to be left behind.
Coinbase and crypto have never been in a stronger position. We've been putting up great numbers the last 3 years, doing what we said we would do. We've diversified our revenue streams. Regulatory clarity is emerging. More and more financial institutions, governments and retail investors are jumping in. The financial system is going through this massive transformation, and there is really no company in the world that is better positioned to help make that a reality and capitalize on it than Coinbase.
Investors must be early and right to generate alpha, and Coinbase is still underestimated. It's not yet a consensus view amongst traditional analysts. I suggest looking at what a company says they're going to do (and their track record of meeting it), not whether some analyst's model said they beat or miss. Also our GAAP Net Income includes unrealized gain/losses on crypto we hold, so it's useful to look at Adj. Net Income as well (spoiler: we were profitable last quarter, even in a down market - many headlines got this wrong).
Some highlights from our recent Q4 + FY earnings for more context on Coinbase’s current position:
- Total trading volume grew 156% Y/Y and our crypto trading market share doubled in 2025
- Assets on Coinbase increased 3x over the last 3 years
- We now have 12 products generating >$100M of revenue on an annualized basis
- New all time highs in USDC and Coinbase One
Thanks for the question, @CoinbaseDuck!
Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings.
OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.
Top 10 Mini-Apps on @baseapp this week 📱
1. @ripsapp
Dominating the consumer layer with viral interactive experiences that keep users coming back daily.
2. @planetix
Capturing the strategy gaming market by allowing players to build and explore complex virtual worlds.
3. #basemeapp
Solving the identity problem by giving users a simple way to create and manage onchain profiles.
4. @clashofcoins
Winning the casual crowd with quick and addictive coin flipping games that drive high retention.
5. @qrcoinfun
Proving that simple utility like scanning codes can drive consistent real world engagement.
6. @kingyru (Arbase GM)
Building a loyal community by gamifying the daily check in process for social rewards.
7. @avantisfi
Making complex financial tools accessible by bringing perpetual futures trading directly to the mini app.
8. @LegendBaseETH
Keeping players hooked with a deep narrative rpg experience rather than just simple clicks.
9. @kondofun
Offering practical productivity tools for users who want to organize and declutter onchain.
10. @bankrbot
Blending ai agents with defi execution to make swapping tokens faster and more efficient.
“Anyone should be able to trade any asset, anywhere in the world, 24/7 with just an internet connection and a phone in their pocket”
@KyleSamani explains his definition of Internet Capital Markets
Top Web3 KOL Red Flags:
1. Promoting 10+ projects/month
2. Lack of disclosed holdings
3. Constantly hyping "moon shots"
4. No prior blockchain experience
5. Promoting without using the product
If you see these, run the other way.
💡2026 is proving that privacy preserving identity isn't limited to one industry.
Payments, Healthcare, Gaming, Insurance, Events. Social media.
Every industry, online and offline, the possibilities are truly endless.
We're making comprehensive, real-time crypto market data accessible to AI agents 🤖
CoinGecko API now supports x402, the open payment protocol developed by @coinbase that lets AI agents (such as @openclaw 🦞) pay for crypto price and market data using USDC.
Learn how it works 👇
https://t.co/azMR1dxLq8
0/ ERC-8004, the standard for universal AI agent identity, reputation, and verification, is now live on Ethereum Mainnet.
With the ERC-8004 standard, AI agents are accountable economic actors.
Here are 5 unlocks that ERC-8004 gives to builders, and how to integrate today.
@Giooton You might have missed https://t.co/sGD7Nfsb9T which can be a group assistant on Telegram, answering any questions about crypto and send CT summaries to you :)
Ethereum is for AI.
ERC-8004, a new standard by the @ethereumfndn dAI Team, @MetaMask, @Google, @Coinbase, and others, provides a blueprint for how AI agents find and review each other, request and pay for jobs, and verify the work done.
What builders need to know.