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When Software Starts Spending Money (opens the original)
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In 1997, the people building the web reserved an HTTP status code for something that barely existed.402: Payment Required.The idea was simple. One day, a website might ask a computer to send money before delivering a piece of content or a service.The problem was that the economics never really worked.Credit cards were designed for humans buying things from merchants. They came with fixed transaction costs, accounts, forms, passwords and checkout pages. Sending three cents from one computer to an
The ECB Just Opened the Door to Tokenized Finance. Who Gets Paid? (opens the original)
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I’m interested in the moments when a financial technology becomes something institutions can actually use. Today brought one worth paying attention to.The European Central Bank launched Pontes, a system that allows transactions in tokenized assets to be settled in central bank money. Clearstream, Deutsche Bank and Société Générale are among the first participants.That sounds technical. The idea is fairly simple.Imagine a bond issued on a blockchain. Recording who owns it is only part of the tran
Who Gets Paid When AI Starts Spending Money? (opens the original)
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AI agents are beginning to make purchases, move money and execute financial transactions. The interesting investment question is no longer whether they can do it — but who controls the infrastructure underneath them.On May 27, Robinhood launched a credit card for someone who does not really exist.Your AI agent.The product allows a Robinhood customer to create a virtual card, connect it to an AI agent, define how much it is allowed to spend and decide whether purchases require manual approval.The
You Can Trade Anything. You May Own Nothing. (opens the original)
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The financial world is removing the difference between accessible and inaccessible assets. I am not convinced investors understand what they are giving up in return.For most of my life, markets had fairly obvious borders. If a company was public, you could buy it. If it was private, listed in the wrong country or blocked by capital controls, you probably could not.This week, investors found new ways to trade a Chinese chipmaker they could not directly access. Robinhood revealed that yes-or-no be
The trillion-dollar race to connect every person, machine, and battlefield from orbit (opens the original)
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On February 26, 2022, two days into the invasion, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation wrote to Elon Musk.While you try to colonise Mars, Russia tries to occupy Ukraine. Send Starlink.Musk switched it on the same day.Within weeks, thousands of terminals were on the ground. Russia had spent the opening days of the war flattening cell towers and cutting fibre. It didn’t matter. Ukraine was running on a network 550 kilometres overhead.That’s the version everyone knows.Three years later, the
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