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Visa has expanded its stablecoin settlement network, adding support for Stripe, Circle, Coinbase, and others as transaction volume hits a seven billion dollar annual run rate. That's a payments giant quietly building the plumbing for a financial system that looks very different from the one we grew up with.
On a related note, Pantera Capital's CEO is making a bold call, arguing there's a massive divergence between fully-priced AI stocks and bitcoin, which he says sits forty-three percent below its historical trend. Whether you buy that thesis or not, the tension between AI investment frenzy and crypto skepticism is a real conversation happening inside institutional portfolios right now.
And on the security front, a new report from Thales finds that forty percent of all internet traffic now comes from bad bots. What's striking isn't just the scale — it's the shift in how we think about the problem. Identifying bots used to be the hard part. Now the challenge is understanding what those bots, agents, and automated systems are actually doing once they're inside.
That's today's signal through the noise. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
