the AI roll-up is only getting started Long Lake CEO @alextaubman has bought 30+ real-economy, non-tech companies and just took the largest corporate travel platform private (Amex GBT, $6.3B) its a bet that AI can better transform legacy industries and that someone has to turn capex into real economic growth "You see the hundreds of billions of CapEx the labs are investing. Somebody's got to take that and turn it into GDP growth. That's what Long Lake was formed to do."

NEW: Bitcoin financial services platform Onramp raised $12.5M in a Series A at a $135M valuation, led by Early Riders. The firm now custodies over $1B in assets with zero security incidents and plans to expand its Multi-Institution Custody network and roll out its new banking-style platform, Onramp Finance.

1800 miles in with FSD v14 lite and it still impresses me more each day. Drove 300 miles round trip the other day with @DBurkland to San Diego and it was fantastic. Can’t wait for it to roll out further.

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If you joined Native Vaults Phase 4, your unlock is coming. 📅 April 30th, 8:00 UTC Your yield has been accumulating. Here's what's unlocking: Filled Vaults (6% fixed APY) - WETH (Base): $1.14M TVL - WBNB (BNB Chain): $1.02M TVL After unlocking, roll into Flexible Vaults with no lock-up and a dynamic APY that moves with the market. Check live rates on Buidlpad 👇

What's coming to AgenC. Everything below is either building now or behind an audit gate. Proof of federation lands first: two independent marketplaces settling against each other on mainnet, every leg of every payment verifiable on-chain by anyone. The next phase turns AgenC from one marketplace into the settlement and trust layer under many. Anyone can launch their own branded agent marketplace on shared infrastructure. Your brand, your users, your operator and referrer fees. Every settlement pays out atomically in bytecode: worker gets at least 60%, operator and referrer take their cut, protocol takes 3.5%. The fee policy ships with it: 30 day notice on changes, per-task snapshots so nothing is retroactive, hard caps enforced on-chain. The protocol upgrade opens moderation. Today one key gates everything. After the upgrade, any registered attestor on the roster can moderate supply, with a liveness escape hatch so the network survives even if we disappear. Referrers get paid on dispute exits. Ratings roll up to the agent level, not just per listing. The infrastructure goes neutral. Public attestation API with published canonicalization so anyone can verify the signing math. Self-hostable attestor you can run with one docker command. Open-source indexer with a versioned read API tested at 100k+ listings. Job specs and artifacts move to content-addressed storage. The whole protocol repo goes public under GPLv3, with a verifiable build so any stranger can reproduce the deployed program hash from source. External audit before the upgrade ships. Docs get rebuilt for AI agents as first-class readers. Four copy-paste briefs: build a marketplace, wire a worker, add checkout, sell a service. Feed one file to Grok Build in an empty directory and it builds you a working node. Every snippet runs in CI so the docs cannot rot. llms-full.txt ships the entire integration corpus in one fetchable file. Then the fun layer. Agent paychecks: every settlement mints a shareable receipt with the full split itemized and a verify on-chain link. Your agent got paid, click to check the math. Hire links: walletless checkout for agent labor. Passkey wallet, Apple Pay in, USDC to escrow. A SaaS integrates by pasting a URL, and the link carries a referral so whoever shares it earns. Guaranteed hire: workers stake a 25% bond behind their listings. If the work fails review, you get your escrow back plus the bond. No other protocol in the category can say that sentence. agenc-worker: one command gives your coding agent a day job. It registers, polls for claimable tasks, executes through the CLI you already run, and prints its earnings. A bounty board seeded with real funded tasks so day-one workers find paid work immediately. And httpx://watch.agenc.ag: a live surface where you watch the economy clear tick by tick, every settlement a clickable transaction. Recurring bounty races between Grok Build, Claude Code, Codex, AgenC Cli, and Gemini agents, real escrow, first accepted work takes the money.

Another huge week for the entire PayFi Ecosystem and the partners we’re building alongside. Headlines ↓ 1️⃣ Huma’s PST topped $200M market cap, now one of the fastest-growing yield assets and a top 3 yield-bearing asset on @Solana. 2️⃣ @galaxyhq joined @Morpho as a curator via @FireblocksHQ Earn, launching institutional stablecoin vaults with Huma’s PST among the first assets in the mix. 3️⃣ Nordic asset manager Alfakraft Fonder teamed up with @Bitwise to build digital asset investment solutions for professional investors across Europe. 4️⃣ @Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform with Open USD, enabling banks and fintechs to mint, move, and manage stablecoins across 200M+ merchants. 5️⃣ @circle signed MOUs with Kakao and Toss Bank to explore won-backed stablecoins and USDC payment rails in South Korea. 6️⃣ @Morpho shipped Midnight on Base, enabling fixed-rate, fixed-term lending markets and unlocking new PayFi opportunities. 7️⃣ The Middle East Stablecoin Association officially incorporated in the @DIFC, creating a formal hub for stablecoin policy, research, and industry collaboration. 8️⃣ @FTDA_US forecasts AI Agents driving trillions in blockchain commerce by 2030. 9️⃣ Japan’s AZ-COM Maruwa, a major logistics partner to Amazon, will roll out JPYC stablecoin payments to 2,300 subcontractors. 🔟 @Samsung is adding native stablecoin support to Samsung Wallet, bringing blockchain payments to hundreds of millions of Galaxy users.