Google’s own @mitchem looked great explaining the benefits of open-source public goods for machine payments like x402

It’s taken 15 years of blockchain technology to get to this point. Agents can now buy things you didn’t know could exist Try @agentcashdev

Our Google x402 Miami 🤖🌴 demo powered by friends: - Hermes Agent @NousResearch w/ Gemini Flash - Facilitator @faremeterxyz by @corbitsdev - web3.js by @anza_xyz - x402 pub goods bigquery by @TektonicCompany - x402 store Cloud Run @googlecloud - x402 Agent selfie by @NanoBanana - Vibe coded @geminicli x402 (and more) at Google Cloud Web3 cloud.google.com/application…

Introducing Pay.sh, in collaboration with @googlecloud For the first time agents can discover, access, and pay-per-request for APIs from Google Cloud including Gemini, BigQuery, Vertex AI, and more using stablecoins on Solana. No accounts, no subscriptions, just machine-native commerce.

e/acc @beffjezos vs. d/acc @VitalikButerin live discourse moderated by a16z @eddylazzarin teamed up w/ ai16z (former) @shawmakesmagic thought I signed up for an irl tweet-off ... turns out it's an irl essay-off each round of back and forth takes 10min starting from 2nd law of thermodynamics tough job to insert even punctuation for this one, let alone moderate... 😂

Whitepaper Reading Club Singapore: Feb 24 ~350 firms "make" crypto markets tradable. But why don't we trust them & Post-Jan 2026, liquidity is down 40%. Market Makers aren't heroes/villains — they're economic actors. The real issue: the hidden dealings between projects, exchanges, and MMs that retail can't see. That's what needs to change. Full summary → docs.google.com/document/d/1… Fi4x9Q01WLRQKSsFQMod8iSD2k8PvY Discussion Notes Below 👇 Thanks to: - @ulandaoon (Drew & Napier) Dominic (@TokkaLabs), @donovanchoy, @jameskwho for the insights. - @Herringglobal @DeFi_Koopman & Tony, @xulian_hl for looking over the notes and the summary. - Teams from @flowdesk_co and @AcheronTrading that attended - Welcome to @mitchem and @tyneslol who quietly showed up and everyone else that came through - Thank you again to @Kimmi_Unni & Joel @SuperteamSG for hosting us again!

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