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Digital Bytes analyses blockchain adoption in banking, stablecoins in finance, tokenised assets and programmable money. A weekly briefing on how digital infrastructure is reshaping financial markets.

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Digital Bytes 30th September 2026 (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    Google sold the first page: AI agents will buy without seeing it (opens the original)

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    The consumer internet taught a generation that finding anyone was a search problem. Type a name. Scan ten blue links. Trust the first screen because a machine already decided you should. That machine was never neutral. It knew where you were standing, how old you looked to its model, which ads had been paid, which pages had been stuffed for a crawler, and which brands had bought the right to sit above the answer. That setup is finished as a way for machines to find each other. Not finished as a

  3. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    The new money war: stablecoins, tokenised deposits and the battle to bank the AI economy (opens the original)

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    The debate over digital money is moving away from a binary choice between banks and crypto with the more consequential contest being now between two forms of programmable money: fiat-backed stablecoins and tokenised commercial-bank deposits. Both can move across digital ledgers around the clock, interact with smart contracts and settle transactions far faster than many legacy processes, yet they are economically and legally different. Stablecoins are typically backed by pools of highly liquid as

  4. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    From waste to wealth: how blockchain and digital passports are rewiring the global economy (opens the original)

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    The global economic model, historically defined by the unsustainable ‘take-make-dispose’ linear framework, is facing unprecedented pressure. This practice is escalating resource consumption and waste production, whereby intensifying ecological catastrophes and environmental stressors worldwide. To navigate these severe environmental, social and economic challenges, a systemic shift toward the circular economy (CE) is vital. The <a href="https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/topics/circular-ec

  5. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    The autonomous farm: how AI, blockchain and IoT could rewire global food supply chains (opens the original)

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    Agriculture has moved from mechanisation to satellite-guided precision farming and then to connected sensors and cloud analytics. The next step, often described as Agriculture 5.0, adds autonomous decision-making, human-AI collaboration and digital trust infrastructure. A 2026 Frontiers study combines reinforcement learning, neutrosophic regression, IoT telemetry and blockchain to model crop losses and secure transactions across six crops including rice, banana, turmeric, coconut and cocoa. The

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