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Weekly Roundup 10/23/26 (Gold alchemy, rogue financial AI agents, GENIUS implements stablecoin yield) (EP.746)
10/23/2026
Weekly Roundup 10/23/26 (Gold alchemy, rogue financial AI agents, GENIUS implements stablecoin yield) (EP.746)
Matt and Nic are back with another week of news. In this episode: Marathon Fusion says it has turned mercury into stable gold What would commercially viable alchemy mean for Bitcoin’s scarcity argument? AI tools uncover a major vulnerability in PHP A certificate authority’s private keys turn out to be trivially guessable Railway warns developers to revoke their secrets after a cyberattack Banks are finding third-party AI agents inside customer accounts Who’s responsible when your AI agent acts without instructions? The OCC finalizes its GENIUS Act rules Stablecoin issuers can’t pay yield directly, but where does that leave third-party rewards? a16z reportedly plans to drop “crypto” from its flagship fund’s name Ali Yahya is leaving to start a company Microsoft, Alphabet, and Goldman Sachs object to tokenized versions of their shares Should public companies have a veto over tokenizing their stock? Polymarket faces growing pains as Kalshi gains ground Are perpetual preferred shares a new source of Bitcoin demand? Can compute derivatives give investors a way to short the AI boom? Content mentioned in this episode: Marathon Fusion, OCC, Fidelity Digital Assets, Bitwise, Wired, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal,
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