"An AI agent is one of the most intimate experiences we will have. Without decentralized architecture, we're building an Orwellian future with zero privacy." - @lia_aixyz from @BitGPTnetwork on why co-owning AI is the only solution. Full talk here → youtu.be/7E31kMz0rhM

Revealing..the headline speaker for Agents Unleashed happening tomorrow 🥁 The one and only @Lia_aixyz, founding partner @bitgptnetwork and deAI expert is taking the stage to discuss where agentic payments is heading. 📍 Oct 1, Singapore Last day to signup: luma.com/h0zgn96s

How can you buy a fridge with an AI agent? With @Ryan__Barney, I trace the history of "HTTP 402 - Payment Required": its lost promise as the Internet's payment code, its revival in the era of agentic payments by @Coinbase's x402, @BitGPTnetwork h402, and @radiustech_xyz EVMAuth, and how this allows end consumers to buy fridges with AI agents stablecoins. A TLDR: - HTTP 402’s lost promise: Originally envisioned as a native micropayment standard with a <payment> tag, HTTP 402 never took off due to a lack of digital cash and economic feasibility, leaving it a dormant relic of early web design. - FinTech “walled gardens” and the Internet’s Original Sin: Instead of protocol-level payments, centralized processors like PayPal and Stripe filled the gap, locking users into proprietary ecosystems and cementing the ad-driven business model of the web, dubbed as the Internet’s “Original Sin” - Stablecoins AI agents revive the ‘90s vision: With stablecoins offering near-instant, low-cost, programmable transactions, and AI agents acting as autonomous buyers, HTTP 402’s original dream of seamless, machine-to-machine payments is becoming viable. - Current competing standards: x402, h402, and EVMAuth take different approaches to payment challenges, facilitators, and proofs of payment, balancing ease of integration, multichain support, and smart contract composability. - Infrastructure Opportunities: Widespread HTTP 402 use will depend on (1) client/agent integration, (2) vendor adoption, (3) facilitator systems, and (4) advances in stablecoin payment infrastructure. Of these, facilitator systems, which control asset flow and spending policy, is likely to be the most lucrative infrastructure opportunity, while vendor adoption (what agents can actually buy) are likely HTTP 402’s biggest hurdle. If you're a builder building on x402/h402/EVMAuth or any other protocol for agentic payments, please reach out via DMs! More than happy to chat :) [FULL ARTICLE IN THREAD]

A big thank you to all the projects and participants who joined our event yesterday! 🙌 @OfficialSkyWee1 It was a truly chill evening filled with insightful conversations and meaningful connections. ✨ Looking forward to your updates and to building new collaborations together! #KBW2025 #korea #DePIN #RWA #AI

Project Crypto ☀️ Huge week for crypto and internet capital markets, with SEC Chair Atkins releasing a plan to bring crypto innovation back to America with sensible regulations for builders. Job’s not finished, so we keep shipping. Here’s what you might’ve missed last week: - 9GAG, one of the OG meme sites and a longtime home of internet culture with over 200m users, integrated with @Moonit, making any viral meme from 9GAG automatically tokenized on Solana - @orca_so launched Wavebreak, a Solana token launchpad featuring proprietary anti-bot tech, permissionless token creation, and graduation LP rewards for creators - @multisig introduced The Grid MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, making it faster and easier to deploy stablecoin accounts with AI - @pipenetwork launched Pipe Firestarter Storage, the first decentralized full-stack CDN on Solana built to compete with giants like Cloudflare - @fslweb3 launched Good Game US Dollar (GGUSD) on Solana, a yield-bearing stablecoin backed 1:1 by @withAUSD and U.S. Treasuries - @wattprotocol launched, transforming Solana tokens into yield-generating assets with universal staking - @poppin_so launched, enabling developers to easily add real-time chat, posts, and announcements to any site, turning traffic into community - @pumpdotscience launched The Lab, a protocol for market-driven science experiments, enabling users to productize interventions and reward token holders - @XO_app announced that they are migrating their 1.5M user dating app to Solana with the help of @Magicblock - @Sleepagotchi dropped on iOS & Android for a limited time 3 week open beta - @omnipair raised more than 3x its target funding with @MetaDAOProject to build a new futarchy-governed DeFi primitive on Solana - @BitGPTnetwork launched h402, an open standard for machine‑to‑machine payments: agents pay for APIs, compute, and data with simple HTTP requests that settle on Solana in milliseconds - @Exceed_Finance launched Super Staking on Solana - @perena opened their yield-bearing delta neutral vault to the public, powered by @TradeNeutral - @poofnew launched on Solana mainnet, enabling @solana_devs to vibe code Solana apps with AI prompts in minutes - @magna_digital added support for Solana Token Extensions to help power token distribution for @SonicSVM rewards - @drip_haus introduced DMs on their app to make it easier for creators to connect with their fans - @TypeXKeyboard launched on the app store, a gamified Solana wallet embedded inside your keyboard that enables you to trade without switching apps - @jupiterexchange introduced Verify v4, featuring faster token verification approvals, streamlined social signal metrics, and an option to express review Feels good to be here with so much happening. Comment with something cool you saw or did on Solana last week. Btw in case you forgot - @solanamobile Seekers start shipping tomorrow. As always, hope you all have a lovely rest of the day and week ahead 🫡