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The Candy Toybox
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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Candy Toybox: Solana gets native subscription billing, the agent payment stack formally forks between card rails and crypto-native micropayments, and a wave of AI orchestration releases s…
Today on The Candy Toybox: the builder stack tightens — Solana governance debates its burn mechanics, agent orchestration frameworks race to production-grade durability, and the music-web3 infrastruct…
Today on The Candy Toybox: agentic commerce gets its institutional plumbing — from $8M raises to AWS primitives — while NVIDIA drops a full local-agent toolkit and music provenance finally gets a cryp…
Today on The Candy Toybox: the agent economy is minting its own payment stack, Solana's burn mechanics are up for a 100x upgrade, and a supply-chain malware campaign is quietly hunting crypto develope…
Today on The Candy Toybox: the agent payment protocols we've been tracking post their first production numbers, the Solana Agave 4.0 rollout forces a network-wide restart, and the music industry's AI …
Today on The Candy Toybox: Solana rewrites its most important program and frees 12% of blockspace, Anthropic advances Claude's orchestration capacity from 20 agents to hundreds, a pioneering music-web…
Today on The Candy Toybox: the infrastructure for autonomous agent payments keeps running into the same wall — who approves the transaction. We dig into the x402 approval gap, Claude's new production …
Today on The Candy Toybox: AI agents are getting wallets, payment rails, and protocol-level identity faster than most humans can open a bank account. Base, BNB Chain, and Solana are all racing to beco…
Today on The Candy Toybox: three hyperscalers shipped agent runtime tooling in the same weekend, the x402 micropayment stack gets its first trust-and-verification layer, and platforms from YouTube to …
Today on The Candy Toybox: agent frameworks are growing teeth (sandbox isolation, memory failure patterns, 6x inference speedups), the music industry's AI reckoning intensifies across TikTok, streamin…