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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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As institutions and AI systems move on-chain, blockchain’s biggest challenge may no longer be transactions — but making data usable. At Consensus 2026, The Graph outlined why indexing, querying, and trusted access to blockchain data could become core infrastructure for the next phase of crypto adoption.
Maple is bringing institutional-grade yield deeper into DeFi through a new integration with Ink, expanding access to syrupUSDT across the growing Layer 2 ecosystem.
Concordium has partnered with Denmark’s national hockey team to launch verified AI and on-chain identity pilots at the 2026 IIHF World Championship — bringing agentic commerce and blockchain-based fan verification into mainstream sports.
Everything.inc ($EV), formerly SmarDex, has launched on Kraken and other exchanges at a $100M FDV, alongside a growing suite of AI-powered DeFi tools designed to bring institutional-grade trading infrastructure onchain.
AI adoption is accelerating faster than oversight. At Consensus 2026, Inveniam CEO Bill Papp explained why NVNM Chain is being built as a verification layer for AI-driven financial systems — designed to make autonomous decisions auditable, provable, and institution-ready.
Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City unveiled a new accelerated licensing framework that combines regulation, banking, and digital asset infrastructure into a single operational process for global fintech and crypto firms.
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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