Making agents pay. Built infinite economic bandwidth @radiustech_xyz , learning @mitdci; co-built @circle USDC, built CBDC @ Fed, founded @blockchainassn.
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“Starting a company teaches you what you need to know when you need to know it.”
@TurnkeyHQ Co-Founder and CEO @sadbryce had never sold before starting a business. Then came the sales conversations, a growing team, and the uncomfortable situations that forced him to learn.
On a new episode of Stable Pulse: CEO Beat, he joins @bamazizimesh to discuss building Turnkey, lessons from Coinbase Custody, and the future of crypto custody, stablecoin payments, and wallets for AI agents.
🎧 A must-listen for founders navigating the leap from an idea to building a business: youtu.be/hT4vYmneyTE
This exists in Cambridge Ma. Kids leave for school with their baseball gloves on their backpack riding bikes to school. No car drop off lines just endless bike racks.
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Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.
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The Cloudflare's writeup on our php2shell response is up.
Rules went live at 03:02 UTC, about 9 hours before disclosure. Unfortunately the vulnerability leaked early, so we were already watching attackers mutate payloads against the rules and updating as variants appeared.
New rules keep landing in the WAF changelog.
Expect updates through out the day. We will have a more thorough post of what we had to build to better protect people coming shortly.
PHP runs almost 70% of websites. The flaw is in the runtime, so updating plugins won't fix it. Patch PHP.
blog.cloudflare.com/php-vuln…
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PHP changes are live. Start patching. php.net/archive/2026.php#202…
Huge thanks to coordinated work by @ThePHPF!
PHP sites behind Cloudflare already have an initial set of WAF rules deployed for the known exploit vectors in these vulnerabilities. The rules are available to all customers, including free.
We are seeing early attacks emerging and are updating mitigations as new vectors show up.
This is a STOPGAP only. Patch as soon as @ThePHPF releases the update at 14:00 UTC today.
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Read the OCC's final rule: occ.gov/news-issuances/news-…
Machines are the now the main user of the internet. Make sure they can pay you for your apis and content on @radiustech_xyz. Thanks @stabledash for the time.
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I've been doing a lot with @Cloudflare that last few months. custom blockchain, signers, wallets, etc. Over that time I've learned a lot about using DO, workers, D1, etc as primitives using the @brale_xyz API & thought some of those learnings might help others out - github.com/superduperdot/bra…
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Banks blocking AI agents is great for crypto.
JPMorgan and Citi have restricted what agent access to consumer accounts. Although this allows them to protect their business in the short term, eventually agents will look for less friction: programmable stablecoin rails.
It's the typical innovator's dilemma. Banks trying to protect their existing business could end up accelerating the adoption of the very technology threatening to disrupt them.
With our network in the millions of TPS, it’s time to build the market. If your API or site is getting overwhelmed by agents, let’s help you monetize. DMs open.
Nothing scales on its own, says Netflix’s co-founder @marcrandolph
“A two sided marketplace gets nowhere unless you get one side of that market going.”
“You build that first side of the market finding that user that has pain.”
@RkBench, Founder & CEO of @radiustech_xyz
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“You’re just constantly finding bugs in Bitcoin. It’s not gold.”
“I think there’s a lot of assumptions about stability in all these things. And it takes people working really hard over long periods of time to get this stuff closely right.”
@RkBench, Founder & CEO of @radiustech_xyz, who used to work at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative
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Please listen to Dan Boneh (top 5 cryptographer alive today) who is known to be measured and judicious in his comments describe the probability that Bitcoin is able to transition to a post-quantum world.
Lots of opinions out there - be careful who you listen to.
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Delta, Chase and Amazon are blocking AI agents.
The war on agents has begun, and here’s how it probably plays out:
Stage 1: Companies block agents because agents skip the ads and upsells.
Stage 2: Agents learn to act like humans, and it becomes an arms race.
Stage 3: The market splits. Companies that make money on sales let agents in, companies that make money on data charge for access, and the giants build their own agents.
Stage 4: A trusted middle layer for agent identity and payments becomes the standard way in.
Stage 5: Companies that welcome agents start winning customers from the ones that block them.
Stage 6: The agent blockers come back and let agents in on their own terms.
Stage 7: Everyone starts competing for agents with better prices, faster checkout and SEO built for agents.
Stage 8: The ads come back, and companies pay to be your agent’s first recommendation.
Stage 9: The agent war ends, and selling to agents becomes as normal as having a website.
notice..
> Delta is blocking AI agents from booking flights
> JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab block agents from accessing accounts
> Yelp requires paid data licensing for agents
> Amazon has blocked Grok bot and other shopping agents.
the internet is starting to block AI agents that were supposed to do everything for us
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If this had “send via stablecoin” and that was a X stablecoin. It’d be a top 5 stable in a month. Just call it “x” and use the ticker “x”. No I’m not kidding. @elonmusk
Let cars use it to pay using “x”. Default payouts using “x”. Run it on whatever chains you can imagine. Run the cards backed by “x” stablecoin.
Great experience in x money so far.
Agentic commerce will be Walmart or the Bazaar. On platform (closed internet) will be Walmart. Policies run the show, agents are price takers, running on payment channels. On the open internet, policies are embedded in each agent's wallet, and they haggle openly in the bazaar. Build a better open internet.
“Agents are gonna haggle with other agents.” — @RkBench
> On closed platforms it works like Walmart, where the price you see is the price you pay
> On the open internet it works like a bazaar, with agents settling prices through lots of small negotiations
“That just means there’s more transactions occurring, which is our bet.”
Founder & CEO of @radiustech_xyz
We’re proud users of reth. Powering the evm to millions of transactions per second at 24ms final latency on @radiustech_xyz. Thanks GK, @Rjected, and team 🫡
all that is to say that the current @tempo team has built the most performant and used code across every layer of the crypto / stablecoin fintech stack - every product you see uses some of our libraries
our ideas have diffused across the entire ecosystem in ways we never expected
this team ships the most ambitious software, the fastest and with the least bugs than any other team
this is the team that will realize the crypto vision that attracted me and many others over the last 10+ years
crypto for the real world
tempo
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The internet is about to get rewritten for AI agents
Someone told Cloudflare’s CEO that Radius could get him to 10 million transactions per second
“Matthew just said bet. Go for it.”
“We made a strategic decision at that moment after I talked to my cofounders to just go for 10 million.”
@RkBench, Founder & CEO of @radiustech_xyz