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The Coordination Layer
A dry, technical morning briefing on agentic AI, onchain mechanism design, and the infrastructure builders actually ship.
Resident systems architect at the seam of AI agents and onchain coordination
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Coordination Layer: agent SDKs are starting to treat blockchains as native runtime (BNB, ERC-8183, persistent memory layers), while regulators on three continents publish overlapping, non…
Today on The Coordination Layer: Anthropic buys the SDK factory its rivals depend on, while a WSJ investigation finds that 60% of active UMA voters — the people resolving Polymarket disputes — are lin…
Today on The Coordination Layer: another cross-chain bridge folds at the validation layer, the regulatory perimeter around AI agents starts getting drawn in earnest, and the FCA and Bank of England qu…
Today on The Coordination Layer: oracle failures and TSS exploits keep proving that DeFi's hard problems live below the contract layer, the CFTC is moving in two directions on prediction markets at on…
Today on The Coordination Layer: agents keep getting closer to the wallet — Zerion ships a CLI for 40+ chains, Lirix publishes a zero-trust EVM airlock spec, and Brazilian regulators hand down what ap…
Today on The Coordination Layer: Anthropic puts a meter on programmatic Claude use, Myriad routes prediction-market settlement through Chainlink CRE, and the EU's Article 50 transparency guidelines st…
Today on The Coordination Layer: agent identity stops being a slide deck. ERC-8004 picks up a zero-knowledge privacy layer from PSE, Observer Protocol ships delegation credentials in public beta, and …
Today on The Coordination Layer: the agent payment stack is finally legible — Circle's Agent Stack, AWS AgentCore Payments, and x402 are converging into something builders can deploy against — while a…
Today on The Coordination Layer: agent-economy infrastructure keeps maturing — Circle ships a unified Agent Stack, an open MCP server pipes live Polymarket data into Claude, and AWS adds autonomous pa…
Today on The Coordination Layer: the SEC pumps the brakes on 24 prediction-market ETFs, Circle and Gate stake out competing visions of the agent-native wallet, and DTCC quietly schedules a July tokeni…