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Mastercard is now helping agents pay for digital services.
Coinbase provides the agentic payments infrastructure to power each @Mastercard agent using @Cloudflare. Powered by x402 and the Coinbase facilitator.
If you’re building in agentic commerce, let’s talk.
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BlackRock’s latest paper highlights x402 as open infrastructure for the machine-native economy.
Agents paying for data, tools, and compute on demand, with a citation to the OG x402 whitepaper.
blackrock.com/us/individual/…
Our latest research paper explores the growing connection between AI and digital assets and explains why broad AI adoption may drive new demand, utility and applications across the digital asset economy. blackrock.com/us/individual/…
John retweeted
Another unlock for your friendly AI agent.
First use case is Travala - you can use your favorite LLM to book 2M+ properties, paying with USDC on Base.
Excited to see more businesses build on this with AWS AgentCore to open themselves up to the newest, fastest growing consumer group.
Agentic finance needs three things to work at scale:
→ A place for agents to live.
→ A payment rail they can trust.
→ An open way to find what to pay for.
@awscloud AgentCore Payments, using CDP wallets and x402, delivers all three.
Live today.
John retweeted
Today we open sourced our no 1 used internal tool, berd. An agent where you can byo harness/models while keeping your work and context in one place, in an unhinged environment where you can build your dream team of agents. Try it out at berd.xyz!
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments now supports @mpp, giving agents a new way to transact with stablecoins. Powered by @privy_io wallet infrastructure.
AgentCore payments is now generally available. Production-ready agentic transactions with security, guardrails, and observability from day 1.
go.aws/4gkAZM2
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An early glimplse of vocal commerce.
x402 + Siri 🧑‍🍳💋
Agentic payments…but with Siri?
Now your agent can pay any merchant on Coinbase Business via x402, all from iOS
Powered by @CoinbaseDev @CoinbaseBiz
John retweeted
we're going to start talking a lot more about our intelligence tools. this is the beginning of the beginning.
We built an internal AI system called Builderbot. It coordinates agents across our entire codebase. Engineers tag it in Slack, and it researches, plans, and ships. The story so far:
- 200,000 operations per day.
- 1,500 pull requests merged per week.
- 15% of all production code changes across Block.
What used to take months now takes days.
How we built it: block.xyz/inside/block-rolls…
John retweeted
Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore.
You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.
John retweeted
agents are doing things today that weren't possible even 3 months ago
in the graph below:
1. nodes are paid APIs that have been called by agents
2. edges are only drawn between APIs that have actually been composed together by agents
3. data is from apr 31 to june 3
i put this together to illustrate what's been happening since we started giving agents access to money
u can think of each of these connections as a new use case
as more merchants make their services accessible to agents, this network will grow, the connections will multiply, and use cases will emerge that will surprise everyone, including the people who built the APIs
this is open agentic commerce.
John retweeted
In a recent batch talk, YC General Partner @t_blom broke down how to build a self-improving, AI-native company.
He walks through how to create recursive, self-improving AI loops, and why founders who get this right will run companies that improve while they sleep.
00:00 — Companies Are Roman Legions
00:54 — Copilots Are the Wrong Mental Model
01:55 — Extract the Domain Knowledge
02:24 — The Recursive Self-Improving Loop
04:12 — The Holy Shit Moment at YC
05:50 — Self-Optimizing Product and Support Loops
06:29 — Burn Tokens, Not Headcount
07:23 — Middle Management Is Over
08:05 — Make Everything Legible to AI
09:40 — Regenerating the YC User Manual
11:19 — Software Is Ephemeral, Context Is Valuable
12:18 — Where Humans Still Matter
John retweeted
Your customer
0-2025: humans
2026+: AI agents
Now they can pay for and use your product.
Message us for early access
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2ND EDITION OF THE AGENTIC FINANCE MARKET MAP
New players across agentic payments, commerce, cards, frameworks, and all the applications in the world.
See below for list of new players ⬇️
John retweeted
More ways for your agents to spend. Coming soon to Base
