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At TOKEN2049, Kenneth Shek talks to Blockster about AI’s usability problem, who controls customer data, Europe’s digital identity push and the permissions agents need to act.

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At TOKEN2049, Kenneth Shek talks to Blockster about AI’s usability problem, who controls customer data, Europe’s digital identity push and the permissions agents need to act.

AIR and Minds are partnering with Reap and Pivota to let agents use verified customer benefits and complete purchases within approved spending limits. The collaboration will begin with a single-merchant demonstration.
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New York, NY — Maple, the world’s largest onchain asset manager with more than $5 billion AUM, has integrated Bitpulse’s institutional risk underwriting technology into its platform—marking a decisive step in raising transparency, discipline, and real-time oversight across the onchain credit ecosystem.
Organizations across the board, be it hyperscale data centers or distributed edge nodes, are continuing to witness a major upsurge in their need for computational resources all while trying to avoid any security-related laxities that traditional centralized models come with
Singapore — The Algorand Foundation, in partnership with Pera Wallet, has unveiled LiquidAuth, the world’s first decentralized passkey manager — a new open standard that replaces centralized authenticator apps with secure, self-custodial login technology.
New York, NY — J.P. Morgan has officially launched its JPM Coin deposit token on Base, marking a new era of regulated, onchain commercial banking. The move follows months of pilot testing and signals the start of full-scale adoption for the bank’s blockchain-native infrastructure under its Kinexys division.
San Francisco — Edge & Node has joined LF Decentralized Trust, advancing open standards for interoperable Web3 and AI infrastructure in the next era of the internet.
Vaduz, Liechtenstein — EtherMail, theWeb3 communication platform used by more than 49 million connected wallets and 2.7 million verified users, has launched a native integration with Telegram — creating the first direct bridge between wallet-linked messaging and the crypto community’s most active communication app.
GoMining CEO Mark Zalan talks Bitcoin mining, AI infrastructure and GoBTC Pay as the company expands into a broader Bitcoin ecosystem.
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