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Moving money for the agentic internet at @radiustech_xyz, prev @medialab, @bostonfed, @circle, @usocc

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Joined February 2022
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Agents will "annihilate" the old business model of the Internet, @Cloudflare co-founder and CEO @eastdakota says. But a new business model will emerge. And it's likely to be built on stablecoins.
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Blockchains and stablecoins promised us programmable money. So far we have smart contracts, but dumb transactions. Today, Eco is launching the Sauce SDK and Skills to upgrade the transaction itself: turn onchain transactions into programs with guaranteed outcomes, across EVM chains and Solana. Your logic runs inside the transaction, against live market conditions, and delivers the outcome you defined or reverts entirely. Built for developers, agents, and enterprises moving money onchain. Live on @Arc, @Base, @Ethereum, and @Solana today (with more to come). Eco was built to deliver on the promise of programmable money. Sauce takes that mission a big step further by giving you more control, with failsafe execution. Read more below, or visit eco.com/sauce to get started.
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This is going to become my household's new Greeking Out
Tomorrow we're releasing a full UATX course for free: all 19 lectures of Professor Isabella Reinhardt's Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome, filmed in class with our students. It runs from Rome's mythical founding to the Third Century Crisis. It ends on a question the class spent a whole session arguing about: did Rome ever really fall?
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A2A payments will be more important than P2P payments.
Introducing 'stripe pay', for instant business-to-business transfers. Find companies using their Stripe profile handle and send funds for free. Available in the Dashboard and CLI.
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Whoever runs on this as policy wins every vote in Massachusetts.
BIG CHANGES could be coming to Market Basket in Chelsea! Market Basket is considering replacing portions of its parking lot with 162 apartments, two residential buildings and a village-style retail center near the MBTA Silver Line. The project is still in the planning stages.
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Why 11M instead of 10M? @RkBench explains. teapaw.org/radiustech_xyz/status/…
The Agentic Internet is available today on Radius Finality reduced from 500ms to 52ms. Transactions per second increased from 2.5 million to 11 million. Costing .0001 per transaction Why this is important 🧵
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I’ve always felt DavisPolk worked like it’s original client @jpmorgan - operate in a manner so when the absolute most critical parties are in crisis - you get the call.
NEW: Brian Resnick from Davis Polk restructuring team now on scene at Weil and wind-down now being actively discussed among options: ft.com/content/69ccfcb0-3f5e…
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The Agentic Internet is available today on Radius Finality reduced from 500ms to 52ms. Transactions per second increased from 2.5 million to 11 million. Costing .0001 per transaction Why this is important 🧵
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Announcing the Agentic Internet on @radiustech_xyz . We've doubled down on our bet that technology and the world's best technologists create the future. 1000x faster than our EVM competitors. The redesign of the internet starts here. Reach out for early access.
The Agentic Internet is available today on Radius Finality reduced from 500ms to 52ms. Transactions per second increased from 2.5 million to 11 million. Costing .0001 per transaction Why this is important 🧵
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Come for the discussion on payments (with shoutouts to @Aarondklein) and Fed governance, stay for our chat on college athletics, future of higher ed, and AI writing. A fun, wide-ranging conversation with Pat Harker. mercatus.org/macro-musings/p…
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Few have been closer to the metal on the work necessary to mesh technology with policy to make the changes it can bring real than @giancarloMKTS . Looking forward to this read.
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“AI is going to take the old business models of ads and subscriptions and just annihilate them. Something will replace it, and I think there’s a good likelihood it’s going to be built on stablecoins.” - @eastdakota Was incredibly prescient of Matthew Prince (@cloudflare) with @benmilne (@bralexyz) at @averystableconf in March of this year. Can't wait to tell you what @ay_o @kerrykellogg and I are working on for next year!
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We should be studying bell labs, Xerox park , Yorktown heights, and BBN more
Brian Kernighan is a former Bell Labs member of technical staff, co-author of the original C book, and the one who popularized “Hello World.” We talked about what Bell Labs was like and the stories behind all the famous tools that were built there. In this episode: • Bell Labs culture and how he got hired • Day in the life at Bell Labs and the best engineer • Unix, C, and how awk got created • His favorite languages and advice for students Where to watch: • YouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=sMllOlxV… • Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/2yb… • Apple Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… • Transcript - developing.dev/p/e072-brian-… Thank you to the sponsor of this episode for supporting my work: • WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at workos.com/ Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:42 What Bell Labs was and how he got hired 06:34 Why so many inventions came from Bell Labs 14:15 A day in the life at Bell Labs 27:55 The most impressive people he worked with 33:50 The AT&T film explaining Unix 39:46 Why C was so influential 43:25 How awk was created 48:40 What he misses most about Bell Labs 54:10 Are LLMs bad for computer science education 01:01:46 His 1972 commit in the Go repo 01:03:43 Grace Emlen, the fake Bell Labs employee 01:07:39 Why he writes so many books 01:19:58 His favorite and least favorite languages 01:24:28 Advice for students and young people 01:27:42 Outro
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Brian Kernighan is a former Bell Labs member of technical staff, co-author of the original C book, and the one who popularized “Hello World.” We talked about what Bell Labs was like and the stories behind all the famous tools that were built there. In this episode: • Bell Labs culture and how he got hired • Day in the life at Bell Labs and the best engineer • Unix, C, and how awk got created • His favorite languages and advice for students Where to watch: • YouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=sMllOlxV… • Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/2yb… • Apple Podcasts - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… • Transcript - developing.dev/p/e072-brian-… Thank you to the sponsor of this episode for supporting my work: • WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at workos.com/ Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:42 What Bell Labs was and how he got hired 06:34 Why so many inventions came from Bell Labs 14:15 A day in the life at Bell Labs 27:55 The most impressive people he worked with 33:50 The AT&T film explaining Unix 39:46 Why C was so influential 43:25 How awk was created 48:40 What he misses most about Bell Labs 54:10 Are LLMs bad for computer science education 01:01:46 His 1972 commit in the Go repo 01:03:43 Grace Emlen, the fake Bell Labs employee 01:07:39 Why he writes so many books 01:19:58 His favorite and least favorite languages 01:24:28 Advice for students and young people 01:27:42 Outro
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This one maybe as bad or worse than the PHP ones. Get used to lots of patching.
we've found and have been working on disclosure for a remote code execution in a widely-deployed compression library. it's both an impactful issue and an example that shows how complicated it can be to coordinate patching, since it's integrated into a lot of downstream software:
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Bench ® retweeted
when someone asks me to sell "stablecoin data" they are actually just asking me to tell them how to package it to buy it ignoring what data is already out there. the brale.network stuff is held together by duct tape as a test to understand the possible - and it turns out a lot is possible.
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i get asked to sell stablecoin data every day. the irony is anyone can get a starting point at brale.network/ - which is a bit of a skunkworks project to learn/test blockchain data. also - it uses cloudflare primitives i shared in a previous post.
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What happens to payments when AI agents become the ones making them? “Agents are looking for low friction ways to accomplish tasks.” @TurnkeyHQ Co-Founder and CEO @sadbryce sees crypto rails becoming a natural fit for agents that need to transact as they complete tasks. Speaking with @bamazizimesh on Stable Pulse: CEO Beat, he shares his vision for money moving more freely across consumer payments, B2B transactions, and digital services. 🎧 Building in agentic commerce? Hear his perspective on the wallet infrastructure behind it: youtu.be/hT4vYmneyTE
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