The world's largest asset manager frames agentic payments as the nearer-term crypto opportunity, with tokenized compute claims a longer-dated prize it pegs against a $1.1 trillion cloud market.
Stablecoin volumes topped $11 trillion in 2025 with rules clarifying across the US, Europe, and APAC, evidence BlackRock cites for blockchain's shift from speculation to machine settlement.
The reported plan would fold federal AI policy into the Treasury Secretary's portfolio, making Bessent a central figure on both the economic and technology agendas at once.
The world's largest asset manager is pointing at a future where computing power itself becomes a tradeable, on-chain asset, extending its tokenization push beyond funds and treasuries into…
The world's largest asset manager is framing autonomous machine-to-machine payments as a structural use case for stablecoins, adding a fresh institutional leg to the blockchain payments thesis.
The $87,000-$88,000 yearly open stands as the resistance to watch, with $79,000-$80,000 flagged as the support zone if a correction follows.
More than $2B in whale accumulation is the concrete signal; Gemini's $8.50 call is a projection, while URPD data suggests further upside room.
The integration connects machine-readable on-chain intelligence with payment rails, giving agents a direct path to data before they act on market conditions.
Lonsdale’s bullish thesis puts AI’s investment case beyond software revenue, linking adoption to broader productivity gains and wealth creation.
A 24% weekly growth rate gives SPCX a stronger adoption signal, but sustained usage will matter more than the first-month milestone.
The forecast puts AI capability on a near-term timeline, raising the stakes for automation, labor and competitive advantage across industries.
As autonomous agents browse at machine speed and volume, bot detection shifts from a background security function to core web infrastructure.
The solo-GP raise lands in a brutal fundraising market for small crypto managers, backed by a first fund tracking the top 10% of its 2023 vintage with Monad and Ethena in the portfolio.
The two leaders of frontier AI labs appearing before the UN's most powerful body marks the clearest sign yet that AI safety has moved from tech-conference agenda item to global security file.
No policy change accompanied the remark, but presidential vocabulary tends to shape how US agencies, procurement documents, and public messaging frame the technology.
Solana clears 76% of all x402 transactions, 23.2 million in four weeks, but the protocol settles in stablecoins rather than SOL, leaving native token demand the open question.
The $8.9B sovereign position taken in August 2025 is now worth about $52.9B, a near-495% unrealized return in 13 months as $INTC trades at $121.78.
The thesis links AI capital wastage to renewed money creation, making Bitcoin and gold potential beneficiaries if governments choose liquidity over losses.
The key market question is whether AI-linked credit stress would force a public-sector rescue, expanding dollar liquidity and strengthening Bitcoin’s macro case.
Forced buying drove most of the rebound, leaving the next move dependent on fresh demand as liquidations fell sharply from Monday’s peak.
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