🚨UPDATE: Bitcoin Lightning is coming to AI agent payments.
@jack Dorsey's Block has joined the x402 Foundation, bringing Lightning support to the open payment standard.
AI agents using x402 can now pay for APIs and digital services over Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, enabling faster and lower-cost transactions.
🚨UPDATE: @The_DTCC is bringing its $114 trillion securities network onchain.
Its tokenization service launches in October with U.S. stocks, major index ETFs and Treasuries.
More than 100 firms, including @BlackRock, @GoldmanSachs and @jpmorgan, have joined DTCC’s tokenization working group.
The world’s biggest assets now span metals, tech, and Bitcoin.
Gold leads at nearly $30 trillion, while Bitcoin sits among the global top 10 at $1.70 trillion.
Bitcoin is now competing for global value alongside gold, silver, and trillion-dollar companies, despite being the only decentralized digital asset amongst them.