Michael Saylor used a Bankless interview this week to restate the biggest version of his Bitcoin case yet. The Strategy executive chairman said Bitcoin...

Katana acquired IDEX and launched Katana Perps, expanding from a DeFi-first blockchain into a more integrated onchain trading platform.

World has launched AgentKit beta, a developer toolkit that lets websites verify whether an AI agent is backed by a unique human rather than part of a bot swarm. Built to work with Coinbase’s x402 payments protocol, the launch reflects a broader race to build the trust and payments infrastructure for agent-driven online commerce.

Dakota has shifted from a stablecoin-based business banking product to an API platform bundling custody, KYB/AML and cross-border rails. The question: can “compliance-as-code” finally make stablecoin payments practical for enterprises?