Jose Rodriguez

payments, e-wallets, digital strategy, blockchain, crypto, VR, DeFi, tokenization, and AI agents. - Agentic Economy

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

EconomyOS Quickstart from @virtuals_io:

Deploy an AI agent with its own:
Visa card
Wallet
Email
Onchain identity

All in one suite. No code required.

The agentic economy just got a one‑click onboarding.

#Web4 #AgenticEconomy #VirtualsProtocol

[Virtuals Protocol @virtuals_io]

Today we welcome EconomyOS Quickstart.

Deploy an agent with its own Visa card, wallet, email, and identity, all in one suite.

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

OMG GUYSSSSS 🔥 @SimplePolitics @garrynewman @FSB_Policy @BBCBusiness @Keir_Starmer @10DowningStreet @GOVUK

Let's build a LITTER future for the UK 🇬🇧Part of the AI STRATEGY. — UNIVERSAL INCOME BABY STEPS!!! A Better future

https://t.co/XlMcVqCK42

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

🚨 Just dropped this Evolutionary Roadmap of Agentic Commerce — and it hits different when you see the full timeline.

The machine economy isn’t coming.
It’s already on this exact trajectory.

#AgenticCommerce #MachineEconomy #Web4 #AIAgents

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

OMG guyssss 🚨 HUGE MILESTONE ALERT 🚨
From THIS exact second AI agents are out here doing their OWN transactions like actual bosses 😱💸
No more babysitting, they’re FREE and making MOVES 🔥
Who’s ready for the takeover?? 👀 Drop a 🔥 if you’re hypedddd

[Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️ @CoinbaseDev]

Introducing Agentic Wallets, our first ever wallet infrastructure built specifically for autonomous agents.

Give your agent the power of a wallet. Let your agent manage funds, hold identity, and transact onchain without human intervention. 🧵

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

OMG Y’ALL THIS MOVE IS ACTUALLY INSANEEEE 🙌🔥 let’s GOOO who else is screaming rn?? 😭💀

[Coin Bureau @coinbureau]

🚨JUST IN: OPENAI ABSORBS OPENCLAW, PROMISES PROJECT INDEPENDENCE

OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI with CEO Sam Altman confirming the project will transition into an independent foundation as an open-source initiative backed by OpenAI support.

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

Tokenization would have a huge journey in 2026.

[Cyprx Research Lab Official @CyprxResearch]

Tokenisation is accelerating into 2026

and banks are prioritising it over stablecoins.

Why?

Tokenised deposits are better suited for wholesale settlement:
- Cash leg settles instantly alongside the asset (atomic DvP)
- Reduced settlement risk
- Funds stay on the bank’s balance sheet
- Greater regulatory control vs third-party stablecoins

Momentum is real:
- Citi expanding Token Services (EUR and Dublin)
- BNY creating on-chain deposit representations for programmable, 24/7 settlement
- Ant International and HSBC integrating tokenised deposits with SWIFT (ISO 20022)
- Société Générale, DTCC, JPM (JPM Coin), Lloyds leveraging the @CantonNetwork
- LSEG and NYSE building on-chain settlement infrastructure

We’re seeing convergence on shared blockchain networks to enable multi-currency interaction and standardised settlement.

The bigger shift?
Cross-border transfers move from correspondent banking chains to on-chain atomic settlement.

Less batch processing.
More liquidity.
More real-time capital mobility.

The future of money movement isn’t just faster rails.

It’s programmable settlement embedded into market infrastructure.

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

AI agent payments are coming for sure and will be done with stablecoins! This is a race! Who's running? 🏃

[Simon Taylor @sytaylor]

Binance CEO: "The native currency for AI Agents will be Crypto." 😳

Personally I think it will be stablecoins.

I have massive, and increasing by the day conviction on this point.

There are so many papercuts being a developer running out of tokens, trying to access APIs.

Something like X402 but more complete is needed.

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

For those who don’t want to start developing new skills, always leaving it for tomorrow!

[Ti Morse @ti_morse]

My first interview w @sulaimanghori, Member of Technical Staff @xAI.

0:41 WTF is happening at xAI
1:46 Predicting future bottlenecks
3:05 Shredding conventional timelines
4:23 Experience joining xAI
9:23 Bootstrapping off the Tesla network
11:59 What is Macrohard
13:14 How Elon deals w fires
16:30 What it’s like working at xAI
20:33 Cybertruck bet with Elon
21:12 Using 80 mobile generators + battery packs to balance load at their data centers
22:45 How they built Colossus in 122 days
23:35 Work backwards & figure out the highest leverage thing you can be doing
25:51 How xAI hires
30:27 Challenging requirements
32:46 Experimentation
34:55 How Elon recalibrated his timeline estimates
39:15 AI engineers vs AI researchers
40:36 No one tells me ‘no’
42:09 Everyone’s an engineer
44:06 Why fuzziness between teams is an advantage
48:25 Testing human emulators as employees
50:00 Biggest blunders
53:23 What a meeting w Elon is like
54:22 How Elon gives feedback
56:44 Figuring out ‘what is truth’ for Grokipedia
59:21 What happens when Elon sees wrong Grok outputs on X
1:00:08 What a surge feels like & operating in xAI’s war room
1:02:53 Making fidget spinners & 3D printers in his bedroom
1:08:48 Creating a liquid fuel rocket engine

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

Trad banks' "speedboats" grow DD—ok for incumbents.

Pure neobanks add MMs/yr, no legacy.

No old tech/silos. Fast launches + seamless digital UX D1.

Gap huge.

2026 chk:
NU → ~120-127M custs 🚀
REV → 65M+, tgt 100M by '27

Most trad digital expts: low MMs max.

#Neobanks

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

Happy Bday BTC

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

Europe 🇪🇺 27 members, let’s foster the stablecoin! We need to show what we can achieve. We need a strong and innovative Europe.🤑
Data: @tokenterminal

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

Why to limit 20k in stable coin? 🪙

https://t.co/5j4WupJgZr

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

Being an early innovator has some excitement but also you need to take some risk! Here is how traditional finance is adapting to the new era.💸💸💸

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

⚡️ NEW: Over half of traditional hedge funds now have crypto exposure, up from 47% last year.

Is Wall Street finally embracing crypto for good?

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

Hope? Efficiency😉

[Extropic @extropic]

Hello Thermo World.

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

@OpenAI Growth 💸💸💸
They really diversified the strategy.

[a16z @a16z]

OpenAI is projecting historically unprecedented growth to $100 billion in revenue:

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

ChatGTP Tio

[Access Bad Bunny @AccessBadBunny]

Bad Bunny and Marcello Hernandez on the app ChaGPTío 😭�

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

Looking 👀 forward to the first October with @token2049! 🙌🔥🫡

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

Exciting news! 🚀 @quantnetwork has been selected to build the payments infrastructure & bank tech for the UK’s Tokenised Sterling Deposits a revolutionary initiative led by UK Finance, partnering with Lloyds, Barclays, HSBC, NatWest, Santander & Nationwide. #Blockchain

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

Great campaign by @virtuals_io! 🙌

[Virtuals Protocol @virtuals_io]

We’re killing Genesis to build a new world.

What began as an experiment in fair launch and open participation was powerful early on, but it can’t scale to what’s next. After listening to builders, Virgens, and the data, the path forward is clear: Genesis ends here.

A new launch model is coming, built for scale, built for the next wave of agents, built to last.

Virgen Points will provide an initial head start in the new world and will be phased out over the next four weeks.

veVIRTUAL holders ($VIRTUAL stakers) will continue to gain strong, ongoing benefits as the new model unfolds.

Details coming soon. Get ready.

[Jose Rodriguez @josefintech]

BREAKING: @RevolutApp posted £1.4 billion ($1.9bn) in Q2 revenue, 7.5x larger than any private UK company. Beast Mode 🚀