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If you're in crypto and haven't at least made a Wayfair shopping list for your bunker, you've been living in a... bunker (god that phrasing didn't of the way I wanted).
Check out this post by our research team, the FUD isn't completely unreal, but there are important nuances.
A Bitcoin address only reveals its public key when it spends.
Until then, an attacker has a hash.
Fresh deposit addresses, Network address rotation, and change-address rotation are live in Fireblocks today.
Our research team on post-quantum prep: fblks.co/4j7vpQp
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Muse now checks out with Shop Pay, PayPal, and Link.
The agent is one surface. The wallets are still competing for the slot.
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Card programs used to sit on a second balance, usually an omnibus, just to reconcile spend off the wallet.
No more. Wallet funds the card in real time.Another step toward making neobanking easier to stand up.Powered by @dynamic_xyz 💪
gz @turbahn !
Until now, stablecoin cardholders had two balances to manage:
The one in their wallet. And the one backing their card’s spending limit.
Now they can keep funds in their wallet without managing a separate balance.
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Wallets splitting to win share. Agents trying to make the wallet a plugin.
PayPal today, Shop Pay yesterday (@XMoney next?). Same agent, different balance.
Those two directions don’t resolve themselves
🤷♂️🤷♂️
We're excited to partner with @Meta to enable PayPal customers to seamlessly shop and check out using their @Muse personal AI agents across PayPal merchants worldwide.
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Tech for agent payments is shipping. Demand isn't
$800k/day in January, ~$40k now
That’s the gap between a working rail and someone who needs to pay
Looking at you PSPs!
Agent payments have a strange problem.
Everyone is building them.
Very little money is actually moving through them.
American Banker says daily payment volume on x402 fell from about $800,000 in January to roughly $40,000 in September.
Meanwhile, Verda Ventures counts 950 startups building agent-payment products.
That gap is the story.
Visa is building agent credentials. Mastercard is building agent payments. Coinbase, Cloudflare and others are building rails. Startups are building wallets, identity, routing and mandates around them.
The infrastructure race is moving much faster than demand.
That does not mean agent commerce is dead.
It means the rail was easier to ship than the volume.
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Omer Amsel retweeted
Bitcoin DeFi, meet institutional infrastructure.
@Stacks is live on @FireblocksHQ today. 2,400+ clients now have a trusted path in.
Bitcoin Staking next.
🔗: stacks.co/blog/stacks-is-liv…
Stacks is now live on @FireblocksHQ.
2,400+ institutional clients can now reach Bitcoin DeFi directly: lending, trading, and BTC yield using the custody infrastructure they already trust.
Omer Amsel retweeted
Stacks is now live on @FireblocksHQ.
2,400+ institutional clients can now reach Bitcoin DeFi directly: lending, trading, and BTC yield using the custody infrastructure they already trust.
Omer Amsel retweeted
ETH staking volume on Fireblocks has more than doubled in six months.
Hosted by @omeramsel
Featuring the providers live on Fireblocks:
Ben Thalman @builder_benny · @Figment_io
John Mulreany @Joarbs4 · @Kiln_finance
Hosam Abdelaal @hosamm_mah · @BlockdaemonHQ
Artemiy Parshakov · @P2Pvalidator
Izzy @IsdrsP · @LidoFinance
June 18 · 1:00 PM EDT ↓ xitter.cf/i/spaces/1dGYlldlpgoKX
That's me 👋🏻
Staked ETH.
Liquid staked ETH.
Restaked ETH.
Liquid restaked ETH.
Want to know what all of that actually means? Same.
So I'm asking the people who do this for a living.
See you there.
The state of institutional ETH staking.
Live on X Spaces, Thursday June 18 at 1:00 PM EDT. Hosted by @OmerAmsel.
On the table:
→ Post-Pectra in practice
→ The case for provider choice
→ What institutions still need
Set a reminder ↓
xitter.cf/i/spaces/1dGYlldlpgoKX
Omer Amsel retweeted
Fireblocks has been one of the key infrastructure companies behind stablecoin payments, settlement, and wallet operations.
@OmerAmsel, Head of Web3 at @FireblocksHQ, will join us at Stablecon EMEA to talk about what he’s seeing as stablecoins become more embedded in everyday payments and settlement.
Join us in Amsterdam, May 19–20🗓️
Learn more 👇
Omer Amsel retweeted
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Omer Amsel retweeted
The Bybit hack was preventable. The flaws that made it possible still exist.
Fireblocks’ latest crypto security report exposes the flaws and the fixes.
Access the full report → bit.ly/resources-the-new-fro…