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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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As artificial intelligence becomes deeply embedded in financial infrastructure, one question keeps resurfacing: who is actually governing the AI systems that power these platforms?
Someone — or rather, a lot of someones — just moved $400 million worth of ETH off exchanges in the largest withdrawal wave since October 2024. While crypto Twitter doom-scrolls through red candles and ETF holders nurse ugly paper losses, the wallets with the most zeros are doing the exact opposite of panicking. They're accumulating.
A $667 million loss. Revenue down 20% year over year. Transaction revenue falling below the billion-dollar mark. And yet, Coinbase shares bounced 3% in after-hours trading. If that doesn't tell you everything about how disconnected Wall Street's crypto narrative is from reality, nothing will.
BitMEX launches a global Equity Perps campaign with a 70,000 USDT prize pool, rewarding traders of stock-linked perpetual contracts like AAPL and TSLA.
Byreal unveils its 2026 roadmap, introducing AI-powered liquidity, protocol-managed AMMs, and 24/7 perpetual trading for real-world assets on Solana.
WaaP launches on Sui as a fully decentralized embedded wallet layer, enabling seedless self-custody with no vendor lock-in while preserving cryptographic security for developers and users.
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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