coindesk 5 days ago

Crypto Long & Short: What happens when an AI agent pays for the wrong thing

The largest card networks now sit in the top governance tier of x402, the standard that AI agents use to pay for things online. Al...

coindesk 1 week ago

Crypto Long & Short: Why real-world assets need fixed-rate loans onchain

Real-world assets already back the largest stablecoins, yet borrowing against them onchain still runs through variable-rate pools....

coindesk Oct 07, 2026

Crypto Long & Short: Zcash and the case for privacy in the age of AI

AI has made it cheap to link wallet addresses to the people behind them, and the permanence of the blockchain means records don’t...