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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
The final post-mortem on Polymarket's recent manipulation exploit has arrived, detailing exactly how attackers leveraged single-point oracles to extract millions. In parallel, the infrastructure for t…
Today on The Coordination Layer, we're seeing the theoretical agent economy put into practice. Following recent payment stack rollouts from Circle and MoonPay, a concrete demonstration of autonomous f…
AI capability and liability are on a collision course this week. Just as OpenZeppelin's founder declares DeFi structurally vulnerable to new autonomous exploits, the European Union is officially activ…
The August 2nd EU AI Act enforcement date we've been tracking for months arrives this Sunday, flipping the transparency compliance burden squarely onto deployers. Stateside, the regulatory clock has m…
Machine-to-machine commerce is gaining dedicated financial rails this week as both Circle and MoonPay deploy specific payment stacks for autonomous agents. In parallel, prediction markets face a turbu…
Today on The Coordination Layer, the focus shifts to the unglamorous work of securing the agent economy. As DeFi protocols untangle recent oracle exploits, major enterprise players are stepping in to …
With the Model Context Protocol's stateless upgrade now official, builders are turning their attention to making those autonomous workflows durable and verifiable. Off-chain, the fallout from the rece…
Resolving disputes and scaling connections are today's immediate hurdles for on-chain AI. A consortium including MetaMask and Matter Labs has launched an 'Internet Court' specifically for agent-to-age…
The coalition lobbying Washington against open-weight AI restrictions has doubled in size to 50 firms, now notably including both Google and OpenAI. On the technical side, the infrastructure for auton…
The divide over open-weight AI policy has formalized into a public split. A coalition of 25 major tech firms has officially lobbied Washington against new restrictions, conspicuously isolating closed-…