Smart Stables - The next stablecoin primitive Wrap existing stablecoins and create new app and use specific smart stablecoins linked to key metrics and events in your app while accessing DeFi yield on the underlying stablecoin 🧵

There have been more bots on the internet than humans for over a decade. This reads more like something people would say about social media in 2017

Circle has been shipping out primitives for the @Arc ecosystem. We've cooked up a demo showcasing how @Circle Nanopayments x402 power the agentic economy and why it depends on sub-cent settlement. ↓

If your org's AI agents aren't trying to unionize are you even tokenmarxing?

State of Agentic commerce

UX Designer justifying use of extra wide monitors - What if we put tabs on the side?

Agentic payments are a pricing model innovation for SaaS We've started doing simulations on how agents behave as multiple parties change pricing over time. Retention is soo different for agents vs humans

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack. Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords. LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm. Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks. Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages. Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

We've been thinking about AI agent payments wrong You don't need to trust them with money. Or audit every transaction Just program the money itself Token-level rules are like physics. An agent can't violate them for the same reason a ball can't fall upward

Gotta give huge credit to @tempo on how well they've designed batch txns, gas sponsorship natively at the chain lvl and a great block explorer Surely raised the industry's dev UX bar

We’re Based Labs. We build programmable stablecoin infrastructure. Stablecoins with rules. Spend controls, compliance logic, agentic payments, treasury automation. We’re turning stablecoins into application-aware financial infra for payments, treasury, and agentic commerce.

This year has so much tech to look fwd to

📢 Solidity JSON Writer v2 1/ A complete overhaul of the only on-chain, gas-efficient JSON builder library for smart contracts Wanting on-chain metadata (NFTs, agents, etc.) or need structured JSON in Solidity? Read on. 👇

Apptokens are obvious once you understand all tokens are programs and not currencies Programs can also be currencies but they can be much much more

So bullish on Apptokens I'm literally having a panic attack

What wants to happen here, as this expression of consciousness, in this moment?

ERC20 was never designed for agentic commerce x402 should be designed to support tokens having custom rules. Agent to agent commerce should have tokens designed for agent to agent commerce, not ERC20!

Having some AI follow you into your zoom meetings or google meet for taking notes is the digital equivalent of showing up to a meeting with your fly down

As funny as it sounds, this is what ads for deep research promote in LLMs which take mins would look like Brainrot appetizers before Slop as the main course

5 years ago: "Onchain infra is ready, just build games!" Reality: Broken economies. Devs had to build the tech themselves Today: "Onchain infra is ready for AI agents!" History repeats. Agent builders will learn they'll need a lot of custom infra