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Agentic commerce is one of the hottest topics in tech right now, but there's a missing layer: AI agents can't actually pay for anything.

Traditional rails weren't built for machines making thousands of instant, delegated micropayments without human oversight.

That's what Louis Amira left Stripe to build.

As Stripe's former Head of Crypto and AI Partnerships, he sat at the intersection of the two biggest shifts in payments (Bridge and Privy acquisitions). Now he's the founder of Circuit & Chisel and the architect behind ATXP - the Agent Transaction Protocol.

Circuit & Chisel raised $19.2 million from Stripe, Coinbase Ventures, Solana Ventures, Samsung Next, and Polygon Labs, with Solana founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal as angels.

Presented by Altitude, banking for companies on the frontier.

Here are the best moments from yesterday's show - click to jump straight to the timestamp on YouTube.

Nook (Joey Isaacson, CEO) - stablecoin savings app - on building a product that sits between your emergency fund and your investment portfolio. Most users start with under $500, and over 15% go on to deposit $10,000 or more. High yield, high liquidity, no lockup. Watch the segment

Megapot (Patrick Lung) - onchain gaming and prize infrastructure - on liquidity pool bootstrapping and building gamified experiences that leverage stablecoin rails. Watch the segment

Brale (Ben Milne, CEO) - stablecoin issuance platform - on why Brale is a founding partner of the Better Money clearinghouse, reducing counterparty risk as stablecoin volumes scale from millions to hundreds of millions a day, the Visa/Canton announcement as a case study for big payments companies going onchain, and why we're in an adoption cycle, not a hype cycle.
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Erica co-founded Lead Bank after years at Square building payments infrastructure from the inside.

Today Lead is on chain, settling 24/7 with Visa and stablecoins. In a market where every new bank charter lowers the barrier to entry, she explains why compliance-first infrastructure is the one thing competitors can't replicate quickly.

Recorded at A Very Stable Conference 2026 in San Francisco.

Ben Milne joined yesterday's Stabledash Live to talk clearinghouses and ecosystem interoperability. But if you want the full picture on what Brale has built, his Stableminded episode from earlier this year is essential.

Ben breaks down how Brale went from 2 customers to 200+ stablecoins launched, why the cost of issuing a stablecoin has dropped from $100M to effectively zero, the Canton Network partnership and what institutional repo markets look like onchain, and why agentic payments could be the next massive unlock.

He also drops a line worth replaying: "Imagine adopting payments infrastructure that makes you money."

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Phantom Opens Full Banking Suite to All U.S. Users

Midas Raises $50M to Build Instant Liquidity for Tokenized Assets

Better Money Raises $10M Seed to Build a Stablecoin Clearinghouse

Franklin Templeton Launches Franklin Crypto, Acquires 250 Digital

OnRe's Reinsurance Market Surpasses $100M on Kamino

Valinor Raises $25M to Put Private Credit On-Chain

You can dive deeper into all of these stories and more on Stabledash, your single place to navigate the stablecoin industry online.

We'll be here every step of the way to help you understand the shifts, the risks, and the opportunities ahead.

Until next time,

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