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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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YZi Labs, backed by Changpeng Zhao, commits $100M to Hash Global’s BNB fund — signaling growing institutional confidence in BNB as a yield-bearing infrastructure asset.
Charles Hoskinson calls the CLARITY Act a “security-by-default” trap, warning it could give the SEC sweeping power over new crypto projects and push U.S. innovation offshore.
Donald MacKenzie explains how quantitative models, high-frequency trading, and nanosecond execution speeds have fundamentally reshaped financial markets — turning them from human-driven systems into machine-centered infrastructure.
Tether and the City of Lugano launch Plan ₿ Phase II (2026–2030), expanding their partnership to build blockchain-powered civic infrastructure focused on digital identity, trade, and urban resilience.
PayPal, MoonPay, and M0 have launched PYUSDx, a new infrastructure framework that lets developers create branded, application-specific stablecoins backed by PayPal USD (PYUSD), aiming to bring faster, modular stablecoin deployment to the application layer.
Animoca’s 2025 Exchange Listing Report highlights a structural shift in CEX competition, with KuCoin ranking among the top three in primary listings, maintaining strong mid- to large-cap exposure, and expanding into RWAs like tokenized gold as liquidity rotates toward higher-quality assets.
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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