Agora has now processed over $92B in lifetime AUSD transfer volume and over 38M transfers. Unique holders are up 70%+ YoY, and Agora received preliminary conditional approval from the OCC. Read the Q3 highlights ⤵️

Agora powers modern money and banking for global businesses. Tech, telco’s, payments, energy, and more. I’ll be at @money2020 next week meeting with customers upgrading their global treasury and payment stack @withAUSD.

The Agora team will be at @consensus2026 Miami, May 5-7. @Nick_van_Eck will be on stage May 6th at 10:45am — Stablecoins Go Global on the Convergence Stage with leaders from @FireblocksHQ, @Anchorage, and @zerohashx. Stablecoin infrastructure is at an inflection point and we're looking forward to the conversations.

Drake Evans (@drakeevans) of Agora (@withAUSD) describes correspondent banking as a bundle of services: money movement, settlement, FX, pre-funding, compliance and credit. He sees stablecoins as an upgrade for movement and settlement. Liquidity, compliance and pre-funding, he said, still have to happen. Watch the full panel featuring: Kirit Bhatia of Banking Circle, Martins Benkitis (@MartinsBenkitis) of @GravityTeam_co, Raj Parekh of Monad Foundation (@monad), and Dante Reminick (@DanteReminick) of Halliday Payments (@HallidayHQ).

Founder of Agora Finance, @Nick_van_Eck on Tokenized said that round the clock trading doesn't mean round the clock pricing, and ETF buyers could end up paying for that gap.⁣ ⁣ "If you can only have the APs create and redeem during traditional banking hours, you may have really large deviations from the NAV."⁣ ⁣ "You as a buyer might actually be getting a really bad price by trading on the weekend or trading at night because some of these other things behind the scenes are still relying on the legacy system."⁣ ⁣ "All those people need to get up to date to really have efficient twenty four seven markets, which is going to take a very long time."⁣ ⁣ "There's definitely gonna be periods of thin liquidity like at night or on the weekends."⁣ ⁣ Creation and redemption still run on banking hours even when the index runs on none, so the NAV gap shows up exactly when liquidity is thinnest.⁣ ⁣ 🎙 Listen to the latest episode on Tokenizedpod(dot)com

AI news: @NVIDIA has unveiled Agora: Git as shared memory for autonomous research agents. No assigned tasks. No central planner. 13 agents collaborated for nearly 12 days, producing 1,703 contributions and independently reproducing results 165 times. Together, they closed 62% of the performance gap to a trained GPT-2 on a weight-transfer challenge. This is what agent swarms should look like: not isolated bots, but a persistent research community that remembers, branches, verifies and builds on its own discoveries.

In a recent interview for "The Global Agora" podcast, I talked in particular about how technological power translates into geopolitical power, and discussed whether the techno-oligarchy can now play its own geopolitical game. You can listen to the entire episode here: Apple ( / Spotify ( You can also read my texts on techno-oligarchy: ➢ Worse than Fascism: Eight Points on Techno-Oligarchy: ➢ The Techno-Oligarchy’s First “Holocaust”: ➢ Techno-Oligarchy and the Theft of Tomorrow: ➢ Antichrists and Empires: Peter Thiel, Alexander Dugin, and the theology of illiberal power: