Hey, it’s Marc, I keep asking bank executives the same question: when does an AI agent make its first real purchase inside your system? On March 2, Santander answered it. An AI agent completed a live, end-to-end payment on real rails, no human at checkout... See more
Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team. The SEC submitted a proposal outlining how securities laws apply to crypto. This means: SEC won’t wait for Congress. And Washington is betting on private stablecoins and regulated crypto. More on that below. Here are our ... See more
Hi, it’s Marc. ✌️ We sat down with Michael Blaugrund, the man bridging the world’s most important equity market, the NYSE, on-chain. The platform goes live later in 2026. It’s the biggest change to capital market since electronic trading. “Irrespective of... See more
Fidelity doesn't do crypto. It manages $6.8 trillion. So when the 79-year-old asset manager launched its own stablecoin on January 28, the game fundamentally changed. On January 28, 2026, the second-largest asset manager in America launched FIDD, a dollar... See more
In 2021, U.S. regulators killed Facebook’s Diem) stablecoin project with a phone call. No law, no court order, just the Fed’s General Counsel Mark Van Der Weide dialling Diem’s CEO Stuart Leve and its banking partners with a message that landed like a cea... See more
