Archive · 31 issues
August 2026
Monday, August 31, 2026
Nium's USDC payout rails, AML AI governance, and payment data margin
Sunday, August 30, 2026
AI-initiated payments, stablecoin+deposit stacks, and a16z's $1.1B hardware bet
Saturday, August 29, 2026
Lambda's $1B GPU bet, Kalshi's federalism loss, and Genius Group's BTC U-turn
Friday, August 28, 2026
Anthropic's $45B bet, acquirers selling fraud data, and AML's audit trap
Thursday, August 27, 2026
World Cup's $3.5B ROI, Banks vs. Stablecoins, and Kalshi's Selective Crackdown
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
AI rewrites credit risk, agentic compliance, and Africa's next frontier
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
AI rewiring payments, AML audit traps, and DoorDash's drone hedge
Monday, August 24, 2026
Helcim's $38M bet, stablecoin deposit pressure, and scam liability
Sunday, August 23, 2026
Rillet's 48-hr unicorn, crypto ETF surge, and AI credit underwriting
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Multi-rail moats, Nscale's $3B IPO, and AML's AI liability trap
Friday, August 21, 2026
Shinhan on Solana, Anthropic's IPO, and stablecoins reshaping deposits
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Nvidia's $20B data bet, BTC ETF's $517M day, AI credit underwriting
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Multi-rail payments, AML's AI gap, and Jane Street's Etched bet
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Stripe bets on AI agents, Anthropic's $18B sprint, and Ripple's Korea play
Monday, August 17, 2026
Stripe's $7B AI rail, Revolut's branch gamble, and credit's full-stack rebuild
Sunday, August 16, 2026
Multi-rail payments, JPMorgan's Polymarket play, and fusion's $7B bet
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Scam prevention as retention, Mastercard's Brazil lowball, Stripe-PayPal
Friday, August 14, 2026
Citi buys Kard, Databricks hits $190B, AI rewrites credit
Thursday, August 13, 2026
Multi-rail payments, Yuno's $45M, and Custodia's Supreme Court fight
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
LocalGlobe vets go indie, stablecoin moats, HappyRobot's $1.2B leap
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
inKind's $1.2B play, Broadridge's $8T DLT proof, AI kills RegTech
Monday, August 10, 2026
Nabla's independence bet, OpenAI eats PowerPoint, multi-rail payments
Sunday, August 9, 2026
Bank scam wars, stablecoin pressure test, and BIP-110 fork
Saturday, August 8, 2026
Harvey's $15.5B valuation, AI credit decisions, and three $1B+ rounds
Friday, August 7, 2026
Multi-rail payments, DeepSeek's $74B reset, and a16z's scout blitz
Thursday, August 6, 2026
Bank scam controls, Stablecoins vs deposits, Kalanick's robotics bet
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
AI credit sequencing, Samsung's stablecoin play, Moss unicorn at €30m
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Banks vs. treasury APIs, Horizon3's $2B bet, Coldcard's $130M hack
Monday, August 3, 2026
Banks' digital money split, Saylor's BTC signal, phone scams surge
Sunday, August 2, 2026
Multi-rail payments, Binance's $676M Iran link, and voice AI
Saturday, August 1, 2026
SSI's $5B raise, Index's Wiz-funded war chest, and banks losing mid-market
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