Gemini hit with lawsuit over IPO π§ββοΈ, Myths about passkeys π, Open Agentic Commerce π³
AI Summary
Gemini faces a class-action lawsuit over alleged IPO disclosure failures after shares fell 80% from their $32 debut. Coinbase Asset Management is launching a tokenized Bitcoin Yield Fund on Base using ERC-3643 for compliance, while WLFI's AgentPay SDK enables AI agents to autonomously transact USD1 stablecoin across EVM chains. The newsletter also covers open agentic commerce protocols competing to replace ad-based revenue models collapsed by AI web crawlers.
Key Facts
- Gemini shares collapsed 80% from their $32 IPO price to ~$6, triggering a class-action lawsuit over alleged investor disclosure failures.
- WLFI's AgentPay SDK lets AI agents autonomously transact USD1 stablecoin across EVM chains with isolated private keys and policy-enforced spending caps, auto-installing into Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.
- AgentCash bundles open protocols x402 and MPP into a unified agent payment layer serving 2,000+ agents, as AI traffic collapses ad revenue models with StackOverflow down 75% since GPT-4.
Contrarian Angle
HTTP 402 Micropayments Finally Viable via Stablecoins
The HTTP 402 status code reserved in 1997 but never deployed due to unviable micropayment economics now has a working implementation via stablecoins, resolving the sub-cent fixed-fee problem that blocked all prior attempts.
A 30-year-old dormant internet standard is now monetizable, enabling AI agents to pay for content directly and potentially replacing the entire ad-based internet revenue model.
Tokenizing Loan Pools to Solve DeFi's Partial Liquidation Problem
Figure Forge converts coarse-grained credit instruments like $42K auto loans into infinitely divisible pro-rata participation tokens priced at mark-to-market, unlocking loans as viable DeFi collateral by allowing any position size without full-loan granularity.
Traditional DeFi collateral requires whole-loan granularity; Figure Forge solves partial liquidation by fractionalizing at the pool level, enabling institutional credit to flow into DeFi.
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