The next phase of crypto and AI is not more chatbots. It is machines that hold money, spend money, compete for money, and trade money under programmable constraints. This is the agentic economy: autonomous software agents acting as economic participants rather than mere interfaces.
Messari’s work on Kite frames the core bottleneck clearly. Agents can already research, plan, and recommend. What they still largely cannot do is...
What is MPC in Crypto and How Does It Work?
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Just when you think you know pretty much all the security options out there in crypto, new ones pop up (along with acronyms to add to the glossary—which I absolutely love! 🥴).
Now it’s MPC’s turn. Let’s see what it’s all about and how it compares to multi-sig and hardware wallet security.
MPC in crypto stands for Multi-Party Computation (also called secure multi-party computation). It is a cryptographic technique that eliminates the...
Crypto Theses 2026 Mid-Year Recap: What’s Actually Playing Out Amid Correction and Convergence
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The Divergence That Defines Mid-2026
On July 10, 2026, the CoinDesk 20 Index closed its third straight quarter of losses—the longest losing streak since the 2022 bear market. Bitcoin ETFs posted their largest quarterly outflow on record at $4.67 billion. BTC sat near $63,000, roughly 48% below its October 2025 peak. Capital rotated aggressively into AI equities while crypto prices corrected.
Yet in the same window, tokenized real-world...
The Rise of Yield-Bearing and Bank-Led Stablecoins: 414% Inflow Surges, OCC Approvals, and the New Programmable Payment Rails
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A $1.7 Billion Signal in One Week
Last week, while Washington continued wrestling with how — or whether — digital dollars should generate yield, stablecoin markets delivered a concrete verdict. Net inflows exploded 414% to $1.7 billion, according to Messari data, a report from Alexander Beaudry and Austin Freimuth. This wasn’t scattered retail speculation. It reflected institutions and sophisticated users actively allocating capital into...
Robinhood Chain Mainnet: How a Major Retail Brokerage Is Bringing Tokenized Stocks and DeFi to Millions
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On July 1, 2026, at its “The World is Flat” keynote in London, Robinhood opened the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain — an Ethereum-compatible Layer 2 built on Arbitrum technology. With approximately 27.6 million funded accounts at the time, the brokerage connected its vast retail user base to a permissionless network where tokenized versions of Nvidia (NVDA), Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), and other equities can interact directly with...






