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Why 'stablecoins' won't age well
Ford Broncos aside, cars no longer have much to do with horses. Yet we still measure engines in terms of “horsepower.”
The analogy was useful at first.¹ To explain a strange new machine to 19th-century ears, you reached for the familiar: T...
We raised a $2.2B crypto fund
Crypto cycles tend to follow a pattern. A wave of speculation pulls in attention and capital. Some of it gets wasted. Some of it funds infrastructure that wouldn’t otherwise get built. When the noise dies down, what’s left is usually more u...
Can AI agents actually pull off DeFi exploits?
Agents are becoming very skilled at identifying security vulnerabilities — but we wanted to find out: can they go beyond just finding vulnerabilities and actually produce working exploits on their own?
We were especially curious how agents...
How stablecoins found their story in 9 charts
Stablecoins spent years in search of a story.
At first, they were a trading tool, a way to move dollars across exchanges. Then they became a savings vehicle, something to hold rather than spend. Now the data is pointing somewhere new: stab...
Agents are starting to operate real systems — who’s actually in control?
With contributions from , Christian Crowley, , Liz Harkavy, , and Sean Neville.
AI agents have moved quickly from copilots to economic actors faster than the infrastructure around them.
While agents now execute tasks and transact, they st...
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