📝#101: Tether's AI Agents

Hey, it’s Marc ✌️

This weeks question:

The top under-the-radar signals of this week:

• Trump reportedly plans to eliminate capital gains taxes on cryptocurrencies issued by U.S.-registered companies. This would drive significant capital inflows toward US-based cryptocurrencies.
• Trump has appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E). Wait, what?
• Coinbase became the second-top finance app in the US on the App Store, with stock price up by 80% since the election day.
• Revolut X has expanded to 30 new markets across the European Economic Area (EEA).
• And memecoins are driving the market craze, with “Pepe” and “Dogwifhat” being listed at Robinhood and Kraken.

Keep up with all our signals for Web3 execs on our Telegram channel.

Let’s dive in🦈

📚 Our Top Reads This Week

• Wall Street’s New Lubricant. & . Link
• From Prediction Markets to Info Finance. Vitalik. Link
• How Stablecoins are Extending U.S. Dollar Dominance. The Digital Chamber. Link
• J.P. Morgan’s Project EPIC Whitepaper. Link
• Beyond LLMs: How AI is Set to Reshape Global Business with Stephen Messer [Podcast]. Link
• The State of Generative AI 2024. Writer. Link
• Exploring the Future of AI Agents in Crypto. Binance Research. Link

J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain Reboot

J.P. Morgan has rebranded its blockchain unit, Onyx, to Kinexys. [Announcement]

The goal? To position itself as a leading blockchain financial payment solution.

What you need to know:

• As a part of rebranding:

  • JPM Coin is now Kinexys Digital Payments

  • Onyx Digital Assets is now Kinexys Digital Assets

  • Liink, a payment messaging network, is now Kinexys Liink

  • Blockchain Launch has been renamed to Kinexys Labs

• It is integrating Kinexys Digital Payments with its global FX platform, enabling near real-time on-chain FX settlements and reducing settlement risks.

Why it matters: J.P. Morgan’s blockchain push, dating back to 2015, is now evolving into practical, large-scale use cases. As institutions increasingly embrace tokenization and stablecoins, the bank is positioning itself as a leader in blockchain innovation within the banking sector.

By the data: Since launching, Onyx (now Kinexys) has processed over $1.5T in transactions, with daily volumes surpassing $2B.

Project EPIC (Enterprise Privacy Identity and Composability): Alongside the rebrand, the bank launched Project EPIC, aimed at addressing key challenges in blockchain ecosystems—specifically privacy, identity, and composability.

The big picture: JPM is leveraging blockchain to tackle real-world business challenges, targeting the $98T wealth management and investment sector.

Beyond LLMs: How AI is Reshaping Business

We sat with Stephen Messer, Founder of Collective[i] and AI pioneer, to talk about his vision of how businesses will evolve in the age of intelligent systems.

🤖AI Agents and Crypto

AI Agents are going mainstream.

• Recently, Microsoft's Magentic-One introduced a multi-agent AI system for automating complex tasks, rivaling frameworks like Salesforce's Agentforce.
• Also, OpenAI is reportedly set to release "Operator," an autonomous AI agent in January 2025.

What’s more interesting: AI Agents in Crypto.

• Tether launched an open-source wallet development kit for AI Agents to ease cryptocurrency integration for businesses.

Punchline: AI agents will change how payments, transactions, and even commerce itself operate. And this is just one of the many crypto x AI use cases that are popping up right now.

👉 Directory of top 100+ AI agents.

🚨 Other Highlights You Can’t Miss

• Tether launched an open-source wallet development kit. Link
• Detroit to accept cryptocurrency for tax payment. Link
• Ubisoft launched its fully-fledged Web3 game, Champions Tactics. Link
• Roblox released new safety rules for users under 13. Link
• OpenAI will launch its AI Agent in January 2025. Link

💰 Money Moves

• Writer: GenAI platform raised $200M Series C at a valuation of $1.9B. Link
• 0G Labs: Web3 blockchain company raised $40M in seed to develop AI blockchain OS. Link
• StakeStone: Blockchain company raised $22M fund led by Polychain Capital. Link
• Wyden: Crypto trading platform raised $14M in Series B led by Truffle Capital. Link
• Notabene: Crypto complaince solution provider raised $14.5M led by DRW VC. Link
• LAKE: RWA project raised $12.4M led by Artaize Invest. Link

That’s all for now, folks.

Talk soon,

– Marc & Team

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