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What Vitalik’s privacy posts mean for every chain that isn’t Ethereum
Vitalik has published two pieces in the past two months that together make the case for why AI agents need cryptographic privacy at the payment layer. Nobody else has laid it out this clearly. The first, co-authored with Davide Crapis (the EF’s AI lead) on ethresear.ch in February, proposes a protocol called ZK API Usage…
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A Day in the Life of an Autonomous Operations Agent
At 02:47 AM, an autonomous operations agent named Nova quietly renews a domain. No alerts are triggered. No procurement tickets are created. No one from the finance team is awake. Yet a critical part of the company’s digital infrastructure has just been secured for another year. At scale, even the smallest operational payments become strategic signals. Nova…
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Private agent payments with Curvy Protocol: an SDK walkthrough
Curvy is a privacy infrastructure for EVM-compatible blockchains, and one of the workloads it was built for is autonomous agent payments – the kind of always-on, programmatic spending that AI agents, scheduled bots, and machine-to-machine services do without a human at the keyboard. This post explains why agents need privacy in a way that human…