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🗒 November 06, 2026

Sergio Lerner on Compact Inclusion Proofs

Bitcoin Layer 2s: Ordinals, BitVM, and Programmability

Comparing Bitcoin Layer 2 Security Models

Ziren 2.0: A New Proving System for zkVMs

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Edition #07

🗒 October 16, 2026

Block brings Bitcoin Lightning into the x402 Foundation

TRM Labs: between 0.6% and 7.5% of screened x402 commerce looks like AI agents

Circle opens Arc to the public, with agent tooling built into the chain

BlackRock sees payments as the nearer-term opportunity for AI agents and stablecoins

Mastercard adds trust and intelligence services to Agent Pay

+100,000 x402 endpoints are now searchable by agents through