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.

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:

We just shipped a new site for Agora ( that is a better reflection of what we do: powering modern money for global businesses. A number of hidden pages will be rolled out soon. Our product + eng team has been shipping like crazy.

Agents are becoming market participants. We’re launching the Agora Agent Hackathon with @thecanteenapp: a two-week virtual hackathon exploring how AI agents trade, invest, and interface with markets. $50K in prizes across categories. We’re looking for teams building: → Trading agents → Prediction market intelligence → Adaptive portfolio managers → Cross-market execution systems → Macro and geopolitical prediction tools → Social trading networks Build with Arc and @Circle infrastructure, including Wallets, CCTP, Nanopayments, and stablecoin-native settlement. Open to builders anywhere. Register here: Passcode: SOCIALSx1313