💳 Mastercard taught AI agents to pay with cryptocurrency independently.

During tests, one of them paid nine times for information retrieval and image creation via the Base blockchain — all that was left for a human was to set a budget in advance, and then the agent handled it without their involvement.

Recently, Mastercard launched a platform, which will allow payments with stablecoins at hundreds of millions of merchants worldwide.

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🪙 Today Solana is preparing for the biggest upgrade in its history — Alpenglow — it is expected to reduce the final transaction confirmation time from 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds.

Transactions will become irreversible almost instantly, and the network itself will switch to a new consensus system. The switch is expected around 17:00 MSK.

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📊 Altcoins are trapped — when Bitcoin grows, they stand still, and when it falls, they lose even more.

According to Wintermute, over the week, alts have dropped by an average of 5.7% as capital flows into BTC and ETH, and even a new Bitcoin rally might not change the situation.

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🤔 Arkham launched a paid platform Enterprise for tracking crypto transfers and investigations, while cutting down the capabilities of the free version.

Now without a subscription you cannot view the full transaction history and use Tracer 2.0, and the transaction list is limited to the last 100 — however, data and labels now update in real time.

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🚬 Investor Li Lu, disciple of the legendary Charlie Munger, called cryptocurrencies a fiction and predicted that they would eventually disappear on their own.

His mentor was even more categorical — he advised to avoid Bitcoin "like the plague", compared cryptocurrencies to a venereal disease and demanded their prohibition.

Munger himself was Warren Buffett's chief associate for decades and his right-hand man at Berkshire Hathaway.

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🗽 The US has approved the first stablecoin regulation rules under the GENIUS act, which will come into effect on January 18, 2027, key points:

🔵 Stablecoin Rewards. The OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) has abandoned previously proposed restrictions on individual user payout programs via crypto exchanges and third-party platforms.
🔵 Issuer Reserves. The regulator softened reserve management rules but maintained the mandatory 1:1 backing of stablecoins.
🔵 Oversight and Licensing. Requirements for licensing, risk management, reserve custody, and stablecoin redemption are stipulated for issuers.

Other regulators continue to develop their own requirements.

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🪙 More than half of the total BTC volume is stored at addresses, whose owners are unknown.

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🪙 Dogecoin is trying to be transformed from a meme into a payment system — developers of MyDoge wallet and DogeOS platform united into Dogecoin Labs, to give DOGE more practical application.

Plans include — applications, games, and in-store payments, although a significant part of the ecosystem is still under development.

Previously, the MyDoge team launched the test network DogeOS — L2 for Dogecoin with smart contracts and DeFi applications, where fees are paid in DOGE.

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🎲 Crypto exchanges found a new source of income — while the crypto market is experiencing a downturn, exchanges are increasingly exploring casinos prediction markets, where you can bet on the outcomes of real events.

According to Financial Times, the trading volume on Polymarket and Kalshi increased from $17 billion in January to $72 billion in September — now Coinbase, Binance US, and other major platforms are rushing into this business.

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🤖 Etherscan has released a connector for Claude, which allows you to check wallet balances, transfers, and smart contracts with simple questions to the AI.

It supports over 60 blockchains, and you can add it via the Claude catalog without an API key.

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☠️ Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX, seems to have become a victim of a hack — analysts discovered a suspicious withdrawal of almost $16,000,000 in USDT.

In July 2025, the exchange already lost $44 million.

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📊 Solana became the fastest blockchain after the Alpenglow upgrade, which reduced transaction finality to 150 ms.

TON is in 4th place.

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📺 Elon Musk suggested that AI and robots will be able to provide people with practically any goods and services.

In such a future, traditional money will lose its meaning, and value will be measured by energy, power, and mass.

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