Good morning & happy Wednesday! Today's issue is super hot as we're looking into Mastercard and Google, which just open-sourced the missing trust layer for AI that spends your money (what Verifiable Intent is all about, why it matters and how it will change Agentic Commerce & Agentic Payments + bonus deep dives into Mastercard & Visa's latest financials, and how Google's building the Android of Commerce), and Nasdaq's tokenization play (why it's not about 24/7 trading at all, where the real value unlock is & what to expect next). So let's just jump straight into the finnovative stuff '' Last week, Mastercard quietly released Verifiable Intent, an open-source framework that creates cryptographic proof an AI agent is doing exactly what its human authorized - nothing more, nothing less. The agent can act autonomously, but the boundaries are tamper-evident and auditable. It's built on SD-JWTs aligned with W3C Verifiable Credentials and works across Google's Agent Payments Protocol,...
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