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Meta shipped Muse to a user base measured in billions, and within days Amazon blocked it from shopping on Amazon.com. Michael, Liam and Brian on why autonomous agents will need a settlement unit, and why that is the clearest path yet to Bitcoin becoming ordinary money.
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ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Meta's Muse personal agent is the story of the week, and Michael calls it the biggest thing that has happened in AI so far. It is already ordering groceries, booking services and canceling subscriptions for users, and Amazon has cut it off from shopping on Amazon.com. The argument the three of them build from there is that agents traversing the internet will eventually hit monetary friction, that something has to sit between an agent and the open web, and that Meta acquiring Lightspark is the obvious way it gets a payment layer. Earlier in the show they work through the SEC's five year innovation exemption, which opens tokenized equity trading without the Clarity Act, and what Goldman and Citizens analysts read into it for Coinbase, Robinhood and Circle. The back half covers TypeSafe's Jev model, Tether's $1.45 billion position at Gold.com, and stablecoin hiring at Apple and Google.
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Bitcoin rips overnight, and the leverage that got washed out
05:29 - Bitcoin climbs after a rate hike, which is not how this usually goes
07:15 - The SEC's innovation exemption lands without the Clarity Act
09:26 - Why a securities rule matters for a commodity
13:33 - Goldman and Citizens: Coinbase, Robinhood and Circle win
15:48 - Circle's Arc, eleven validators, and what decentralized is not
18:25 - The banks sat this one out, and why that ages badly
23:13 - The tokens will flow: OpenRouter usage up 25,000%
27:14 - Jev, and the case against burning tokens to make a decision
33:29 - Meta ships Muse, the biggest AI moment yet
38:44 - Amazon cuts off Muse, and the agent knife fight begins
42:32 - Why Meta buying Lightspark is the obvious next move
46:45 - Instinct raises at $10 billion, and the paper gain problem
50:39 - Tether becomes a bullion bank, and Big Tech hires for stablecoins
58:40 - Single point of failure of the week: California's AI kill switch
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Final Settlement is a weekly show on capital markets, dealmaking, early-stage venture, Bitcoin applications, and protocol development, presented by Early Riders and Onramp Media with Michael Tanguma, Liam Nelson, and Brian Cubellis.
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