Michael Broderick

[Mastercard @Mastercard]

Today, Mastercard is announcing plans to expand settlement capabilities to include stablecoin, intraday, holiday, and weekend options, giving partners more choice in how and when transactions are settled. That means we’re:

✅ Enabling greater choice to settle in fiat or regulated stablecoins

✅ Improving liquidity management for time sensitive, cross border flows

We’re supporting settlement with @Circle’s USDC, @Paxos-issued stablecoins including USDG,USDP and @PayPal’s PYUSD, @Ripple’s RLUSD and @SoFi’s SoFiUSD across a range of supported blockchain networks including Arbitrum, @Coinbase’s Base, @CantonNetwork’s Canton, Ethereum, @0xPolygon, @Solana, @Tempo and XRPL. ARQ Finance, CBW Bank, @crossriverbank, @Lead_Bank and @Nuvei will be among the first to support.

[MoonPay 🟣 @moonpay]

BREAKING: the MoonAgents Card is here

💰 fund your new virtual Mastercard debit card with zero-fee stablecoin onramps

🛍️ spend anywhere Mastercard is accepted using your @solana stablecoin balance

powered by Monavate and @Mastercard to support the agentic economy

[Solana @solana]

Agents can now spend USDC on Solana anywhere Mastercard works.

Introducing MoonAgents Card by @moonpay

[Thomas Chua @SteadyCompound]

Benedict Evans' new presentation just dropped: "AI eats the world"
90 slides on macro and strategic trends in tech.

His biannual overview is always worth the time:

https://t.co/GV4ga5Wo1S

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale AI cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention. It has significant implications for cybersecurity in the age of AI agents.

Read more: https://t.co/VxqERnPQRJ

[Vlad Tenev @vladtenev]

There was a time when you couldn't trade stocks on your phone. Imagine explaining to someone in 2035 that back in 2025, markets closed on weekends and holidays.

Tokenization will unlock 24/7 markets, and once people experience it, they'll never go back.

It's the same story every time: access feels impossible until it's within reach.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

“Claude, change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly."

Passing the Heinlein test for AGI, at least in theory. Specialization is for insects.

[Jon Wu @jonwu_]

2025 career guide

[Google Labs @GoogleLabs]

🚨 NEW LABS EXPERIMENT 🚨

Introducing Mixboard 💡🧑‍🎨 an experimental, AI-powered concepting board. Designed to help you explore, visualize, and refine your ideas and powered by our latest image generation model (🍌)

Now available in US-only public beta! Learn more and try it here ⬇️
https://t.co/Rjy8VLIF3h

[Jeremy Allaire - jerallaire.arc @jerallaire]

Google AP2 (Agent Payments Protocol) supports cross-chain @USDC agentic payments, building on x402 (http extension). I have long held the view that the velocity of payments in the world will grow exponentially (e.g. Global TPV) as we enter the era of agentic payments onchain.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

x402 + @Google just unlocked a new level for AI agents.

Agents can actually pay each other now, with x402 powering the stablecoin rail inside Google’s new Agentic Payments Protocol (AP2). Really cool.

[9/11 Memorial & Museum @Sept11Memorial]

Today we will lead the world in commemorating the 24th anniversary of 9/11. Twenty-four years after the day that changed our world forever, we will come together to read aloud the names of those lost. Join us live: https://t.co/XXLaBbugOb

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Someone on HN (which is often quite crypto-skeptical) asked why exactly businesses are finding crypto and stablecoins useful. It's a very reasonable question. My response:

[a16z crypto @a16zcrypto]

"We need crypto to be a computer, not a casino."

@skominers

[Fraction AI @FractionAI_xyz]

https://t.co/mcemeYToXg

[Michael Broderick @whatismichael_]

@jarednotjerry @FogoChain 👔🔥

[Stellar @StellarOrg]

This Friday, SDF's @adavaughan is going live on @StellarOrg with @chronear, @NEARProtocol's Head of Ecosystem Strategy, to discuss how NEAR Intents will power new DeFi use cases on Stellar and what this integration means for the ecosystem.

[Christian @cc_crowley]

Hiring BD in crypto ≠ copying a web2 playbook.

We put together a guide for founders — shaped by our own firsthand experience and lessons from working with dozens of teams across the ecosystem.

👉 How to Build BD & Growth Teams: https://t.co/N6eAWwCvHH

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

A fresh new set of teams is ready to take the NEAR Ecosystem by storm!

Check out the many new products below, coming to NEAR across Intents, AI, and Shade Agents 👇

[Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈) @ilblackdragon]

Looming security armageddon no one is talking about: LLMs exploiting ubiquitous vulnerabilities in code.

We need to rebuild the internet with formal verification and running services in secure enclave hardware.

Dive in ⬇️