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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, regulation collides with reality. In the US, export controls on AI models create a 'predictability crisis' for developers. In Europe, policymakers are scrambling to define DAOs and finalize AI-…
Today on The Coordination Layer: The agentic AI ecosystem is maturing, with new platforms offering hosted agents, task marketplaces, and enterprise orchestration tools. In a first for autonomous comme…
Today's briefing tracks the rapid consolidation of the agentic AI landscape. With Coinbase registering the first AI financial advisor, Apple baking agent protocols into Xcode, and prediction markets f…
Today on The Coordination Layer: The geopolitical shockwaves from the US government's restrictions on Anthropic's models are accelerating Europe's push for 'sovereign AI'. Meanwhile, the agentic web c…
Today on The Coordination Layer, we track the collision of AI agents with real-world liability. As agentic systems move from the lab to production, courts and regulators are accelerating enforcement, …
Today on The Coordination Layer, we're tracking the fallout from the US government's export controls on frontier AI models, which has spurred both industry pushback and the release of open-source alte…
Today's briefing tracks the significant fallout from the US government's decision to suspend access to Anthropic's latest AI models, an action that is accelerating calls for decentralized alternatives…
Today on The Coordination Layer: a sharp government intervention in frontier AI development. Just two days after Anthropic released its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, the US has ordered the company to s…
Today on The Coordination Layer: a CVE in MCP-for-Kubernetes, Lido's conditional $6M commitment to the KelpDAO recovery vehicle, Gemma 4 going open-source with frontier reasoning scores, and Spielberg…
Today on The Coordination Layer: institutional payment rails merge with onchain agent permissions, Anthropic continues to deepen its multi-agent orchestration stack, and the CFTC draws its first hard …