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The Candy Toybox
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Candy Toybox: agent infrastructure is graduating out of the demo phase. Databricks pitches a programmable scratchpad to dodge context bloat, Google unifies four rungs of agent dev at I/O …
Today on The Candy Toybox: Solana's quarter gets framed less as memecoins and more as a payments-and-RWA backbone — while x402 fans out to BNB, sprouts a consumer marketplace, and someone finally publ…
Today on The Candy Toybox: the agent-payment stack is showing its seams — debugging guides, missing consumer protections, and three different ways to monetize an MCP server in ten lines. Plus Vercel s…
Today on The Candy Toybox: Firedancer ships to Solana mainnet under a deliberately quiet rollout, the agent-payments debate moves from protocol fights to wallet authorization, and music web3 gets a fr…
Today on The Candy Toybox: Solana's Alpenglow goes live for testing with sub-150ms finality claims, x402 expands to Arbitrum as Coinbase bets the platform on agent payments, and YouTube's Brandcast re…
Today on The Candy Toybox: plumbing turns into product. Clear Signing graduates to an EF standard, x402 sprouts trust-gating and confidential settlement, and a handful of frameworks (Claude Code, Micr…
Today on The Candy Toybox: plumbing turning into product. Solana ships a 96% compute cut for token ops the same week Alpenglow goes live for testing, x402 adds batched settlement and lands inside The …
Today on The Candy Toybox: Circle's full Agent Stack lands with a regulatory framing that wasn't in last week's preview, The Graph turns subgraphs into pay-per-query rails, and a fresh audit finds 0.4…
Today on The Candy Toybox: agent-payment rails went from prototype to vendor pile-up in 48 hours — AWS, Circle, and Google all shipped competing x402-adjacent stacks, while a free NFT drained an AI wa…
Today on The Candy Toybox: x402 keeps eating the stack — Stripe ships machine payments, AWS embeds Coinbase rails, Square hands Lightning to 4M merchants. On the other side of the desk, Ollama is leak…