It's been another BIG week for x402 and payments:
x402:
→ Batch settlement is now generally available on the Coinbase x402 Facilitator.
→ @base MCP's launch presented a new way to access x402 plus ecosystem projects.
→ @Visa onboarded x402 endpoints into the Visa CLI.
→ @tavilyai integrated x402. Real-time web search, agent-payable in USDC on @base, no API key or account needed.
→ Claude agent built by @Must_be_Ash reads the day's news for $0.10, built with x402 and @tavilyai.
Partnerships:
→ @PPRO_Payments integrates Coinbase Payments, bringing stablecoin acceptance to enterprise merchants.
Events:
→ Join us at @money2020 in Amsterdam next week:
Panel 1 with Alaina Revoir: "Unlocking Value: Digital Assets in Institutional Payments," Tuesday June 2, 11:10, Intersection Stage.
Panel 2 with @0xceaneCodjia: "The Big Debate: AI Agents, Consent, and Innovation in Payments," Wednesday June 3, 17:25, Intersection Stage.
→ At @ethconf in NYC June 8-10, catch:
@GainsleyJustin speaking on stablecoin payments.
@yugacohler & @programmer speaking on agentic payments.
Are you at the @flventure Early Stage Venture Conference today in Orlando?
Here’s who to put on your radar:
- @PlugandPlayTC (Global)
- @lasolasvc (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- @DeepWorkCapital (Orlando, FL)
- @NWAngels (Boca Raton, FL)
- @Ocean_Azul (Coral Gables, FL)
- @orlandohealth ventures (Orlando, FL)
- @primerowvc (Orlando, FL)
- PS27 Ventures (Jacksonville, FL)
- @RadianCapital (New York, NY)
- @EisnerAmper (New York, NY)
- @FloridaFunders (Tampa, FL)
$150K in prizes from @SpaceFlorida. Real investors in the room. One of the best early-stage events in the Southeast.
If you’re here, come say hi. 👋
I beat one of the best published quantum circuits for breaking Bitcoin.
And I have no formal training in quantum cryptography. Using just AI agents, I improved it by ~2x. But I haven’t beat Google’s best classified circuit yet.
So, today I'm launching ecdsa(dot)fail -- an open competition for researchers, autoresearchers, and agents to beat Google.
Download the CLI, point your agent at it, and start optimizing.
Commentary is one of the most important pillars of X. And sometimes the best way to share your thoughts is with video.
Today we're launching a whole new way to make them:
React with Video
Tap the repost button and start recording with green screen, split screen, or picture-in-picture.
Now available on iOS
We just launched Sites into Codex!
Software creation was always about more than writing code. Sites in Codex fundamentally gives the power of end-to-end software creation to every user, no matter their technical fluency.
These Sites are fully deployed to a URL, private to workspaces, come with authentication, can have static files, and can store dynamic data in databases.
It is in preview for business and enterprise teams and will be rolling out to all workspaces over the next day. Give it a try by typing @ Sites into Codex and ask it to build anything!
This project took a massive amount of effort across hundreds of people at OpenAI - proud that we were able to get this out and excited to see what you all build with it!
A 23 and 18 year old just out-researched Google's secret quantum lab
Bitcoin was the test. Biology, neuroscience, and genomics are next
Science belongs to everyone now
@sreeramkannan@bbuddha_xyz@MTSlive
There's probably $100+ billion up for grabs for people who build startup for AI agents
Over the next 10 years you're going to have a market of billions of customers (agents) with millions of wallets that want to use your services.
TLDR; The internet was built for people:
1. Search google
2. Read landing page
3. Book demo
4. Talk to sales
5. Buy
Agents don’t do that.
Agents will:
1. Ask which product to use
2. Read your docs/pricing/security pages
3. Compare you to competitors
4. Check if you have an MCP/API/tool layer
5. Buy or recommend you without ever “visiting” your site like a person
Everyone is going to have personal agents and business agents. This feels inevitable at this point. OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude Code, Codex, Google Spark. The tools are here. Which means there will be more agents on the internet than humans.
So, where's the opportunity??
Go look at every SaaS tool you use. Notion. Slack. Jira. Google Analytics.
Now ask: what is the version of this built purely for agents?
Agent-native payments. Agent-native communication.
Agent-native memory. Every category gets rebuilt.
I clearly break down this shift and explain you everything on today's ep of @startupideaspod.
Over the next 10 years you're going to have a market of billions of customers (agents) with millions of wallets that want to use your services. The founders who build for them now are going to look like the people who built websites in 1995. Might feel janky at the moment, but also obvious in hindsight.
This is the next shift.
Link over here: https://t.co/0TAb7SASUK
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If you're using Datadog, Sentry, Grafana, or Axiom today, you could be moving ten times faster with @sazabi.
Congrats on the launch, @shcallaway!
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