Stripe added Open USD, Strategy reached 848,000 BTC, an oil shock triggered $547 million in liquidations, and Cloudflare and Amazon released open decision models. The week's recap, AI leaderboard and paper bot status.
Korea Blockchain Week focused on agent payments, the CFTC is opening a forum on agentic finance, and Nvidia shipped a platform that polices agents at the hardware level. A quick brief.
Coinbase lets agents trade stocks and pay per request, Block brings Bitcoin Lightning to x402, Public wires AI agents into Kalshi, and BlackRock calls it the machine-native economy. Plus the data that cools the hype.