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Happy Monday! This week’s updates show three very different ways blockchain infrastructure is being put to work: autonomous payments, trusted digital communications, and a packed month of global ecosystem activity. Take a look 👇 XDC Weekly October 25, 2026 - October 31, 2026 _____________________________ Unsupervised at Hub71 @XDCNetwork hosted Unsupervised at Hub71 in Abu Dhabi, where more than 200 participants tested AI agents making real-world purchases and paying one another in USDC through @XDC_SI. The build day demonstrated agentic payments across retail, APIs, trade finance, healthcare, and gaming use cases, with transactions settled on XDC Network. _____________________________ SBI XDC Selected for Japan’s MIC FY2026 @sbixdc and Socialpath have been selected for Japan’s MIC FY2026 project focused on countering online misinformation. The initiative will use @XDCNetwork to demonstrate how blockchain can help verify the origin, authenticity, and integrity of communications issued by financial institutions. _____________________________ Upcoming Events - November 2026 @XDCNetwork teams are set to participate in 16 events worldwide throughout November, spanning Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and the United States. The schedule includes appearances as attendees, speakers, sponsors, and hosts across events focused on institutional finance, digital assets, trade, AI, tokenization, and payments.

A strong network is built by more than technology. It’s built by the developers creating tools, educators sharing knowledge, and community members helping others get involved. Every contribution matters. Drop a name of project or community member in the ecosystem you want to shoutout 👇

One of the strengths of the XDC community is the people who take the initiative to make it better. Whether it’s creating resources, sharing knowledge, helping newcomers, or developing tools for the community, these contributions matter. To those of you putting their time and effort into supporting the XDC community, we see you, and we appreciate you.

We’ve spent years talking about bringing financial assets on-chain. Now we’re talking about AI agents interacting with those assets, initiating payments, and coordinating financial workflows. Let’s get to work.

We told our AI agent to buy the cheapest option. It did. 4,000 times. Nobody in accounting knows yet.

A shift in China’s approach to digital assets would put an even greater spotlight on the infrastructure needed to bring blockchain into real-world financial activity. This is big.

Guys, remember when banks using blockchain sounded like a pipe dream?

Somewhere right now, a fax machine is holding up a shipment of coffee beans. It doesn't know. It's just doing its best.

Merchant readiness for AI-agent commerce: 89% Actual AI-agent transactions today: 3% That gap isn't a technology problem. @Checkout's 2026 research found 75% of merchants say the deciding factor for adoption is real-time permission revocation, not speed or intelligence. On September 18th, the @USOCC granted conditional approval for national trust charters to three firms, including @catena_labs, whose ledger is built specifically for AI agents: ▶️ verifiable identity ▶️ immutable audit trails ▶️ policy limits it cannot override. The infrastructure is catching up to the ambition. Adoption follows the infrastructure, not the other way around.