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Wall Street is tokenizing because of one simple reality: Gen Z controls the future of capital. This generation watched AI eat the job market in real time. For them, investing is survival. They trade at all hours. They expect instant settlement. They're not opening Schwab accounts. Tokenization is how Wall Street captures the next trillion dollars of retail money.

Everybody is talking about AI agents and stablecoins. Almost no one is talking about AI agents needing wallets. An agent will have to pay, get paid, and hold funds. All of that points to the same thing: an agent needs a wallet. When two agents dispute a transaction? Smart contracts solve this. Digital-native dispute resolution between machines. This is where crypto and AI actually converge.

History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. In 1997, Tim Berners-Lee created HTTP status code '402' for micropayments but credit cards had fixed fees in the tens of cents, so 1-cent txs weren't really viable. a16z just put out a great piece on this. Fast forward 28 years, stablecoins have near-zero fixed transaction costs. AI agents need to pay for millions of penny and sub-penny transactions – compute, data, APIs, services. The infrastructure so many people said was "looking for a problem to solve" now solves the biggest problem on the internet.

Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Coinbase, and Stripe all made moves towards building agent payment rails this month. If that's not a signal, I don't know what is.

Algorand protocol development and ecosystem growth are now under one roof. Algorand Foundation ( @AlgoFoundation ) and Algorand Technologies have come to a strategic agreement to unify ecosystem operations. This agreement creates a unified powerhouse for blockchain innovation here in the United States and positions Algorand as the chain that enables financial empowerment at scale.

Think about what's happening here. The @EnelGroup and @conio partnership is the first concrete example of energy tokenization at scale. Anyone can now become an energy producer and reap the benefits. Planetary growth, especially in the era of AI, is increasingly constrained by energy. By democratizing production, anyone can own a piece of the grid. This could unlock massive economic growth. #AlgorandCan #Enel #RWA #EnergyTokenization

🚨X402 is now live on Algorand🚨 We launched a public facilitator, bazaar, and the full tooling stack to make building seamless. Devs can spin up X402 endpoints in just a few lines of code and tap into: ✅ Low, predictable fees ($0.0001 per transaction) ✅Instant settlement ✅Atomic grouping of payment instructions ✅Unparalleled scalability and reliability Many thanks to @GoPlausible who did much of heavy lifting, to @programmer and the @Coinbase team for their support, and to our friends at @Google web3 for the guidance. Let's build 🚀🔥

🧵1️⃣ AI Agents / Agentic Commerce ICYMI, Algorand is now a partner of @Google to collaborate on their new Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), alongside some of the biggest tech and payment giants! 🤯 This is absolutely massive news because we're heading into a world where billions of AI agents will soon be able to act and trade fully on their own, making decisions, exchanging value, and working together in real time, on our behalf! In absolutely every field! But traditional rails are absolutely NOT built for this kind of use case and won't be able to handle it, unlike payment systems running on crypto rails. How do you expect AI agents to freely exchange value autonomously? They don't have bank accounts. They need to run on blockchains! Many people don't realize just how much of a game changer agentic commerce will be. At scale, it represents an entirely new fully on-chain economy! And very few blockchains are as well positioned to support this as $ALGO: high scalability on L1 (which keeps improving), ultra-low and predictable fees, and instant finality for immediate settlements. Agentic commerce is a major focus of the new @AlgoFoundation roadmap, and partnerships like the one with Google are absolutely massive. You're not bullish enough for what's coming next! 🔥

While pruning dormant networks, ADD ALGORAND $ALGO, the Quantum-Safe HUB for Agentic Commerce.

The heavily marketed L1 blockchains, the ones with sketchy track records, doth protest too much about the performance metrics of #Algorand. Keep the pressure on @AlgoFoundation. Send it!

Shitposting is the new Turing Test.

🚨SCAM ALERT🚨 Someone is impersonating Pera by sending fake NFTs. Do NOT visit the website as it is likely malicious. Asset ID of Fake NFT: 3012505735 Creator of Fake NFT Wallet: PERALC66VB7Q5ZBZCOXYC6WLCENZAHQIUTBFEHXMJAJ6352J7THLNK3SWE

🧩 One good lesson: $SUI main DEX got hacked for $260M. Price dropped only 1%. $TAO network is still down. Price is up 5%. Retail doesn’t care about the tech. As long as their favorite paid influencers and VCs are backing the coin, they’ll keep buying

P2P will be rolling out in phases over the next couple of releases. First one is imminent!

Focus on the signal, not the noise.

Atomic swaps: not just for trading hotdogs 🌭 They could actually prevent full-blown banking crises. You’ve heard of atomic swaps on Algorand, but what are they really, how can they protect financial institutions, and why are they important in crypto? Let’s unpack it 🧵

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Berkshire-backed Nubank adds ALGO to crypto offerings cointelegraph.com/news/berks… via @cointelegraph