Themes

Stablecoins are about to be everywhere, and regulated.

Crypto is becoming the payment method for AI.

x402 just went mainstream: Cloudflare turned pay-per-request into a switch.

Agent-to-agent payments are hard to set up and need a consumer version.

Wallets are still painfully unfriendly.

Programmable money exists, but normal people cannot program it.

Cross-border rails are being built by firms that need crypto but do not get it (e.g. pawapay).

Emerging markets need crypto as rails, not speculation.

The agent economy has not started yet.

Agents reach people as chatbots, not generative UI, and are barely proactive.

Agents have no identity, and no way to prove they are not human.

Nobody can control or account for the agents they run.

The valuable data is not in any API; only agents that scrape and research reach it.

AI cannot be trusted without showing its working, or its cost.

Social media makes people anxious and performative.

Money makes people anxious, so they avoid it.

Behaviour change needs skin in the game, not another dashboard.

The news keeps you scrolling; there is no calm way to keep up or react.

Connecting is slow and exposes you: your number, an app to install.

Proof you are real, in a web full of fakes.

Dead venue screens, and brands wanting to live where people already are.

A family space for the person the apps left behind.