Reading up on blockchain
3 deep · digging since dec 02, 25
- I made my website charge AI agents a penny per page. Then I watched Claude pay it. — Suganthan
The author’s site charges AI agents one cent per page via the x402 protocol, demonstrated by Claude Code paying, illustrating a pay‑per‑crawl model for AI content access.
- An Unlikely Source of Crypto Innovation: Afghanistan - The New York Times
An unlikely source of crypto innovation, Afghanistan, sees a start-up building blockchain tools to transform humanitarian aid despite Taliban suspicion of the internet.
- AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
AI agents autonomously exploited smart contracts in simulation, generating $4.6 million in simulated stolen funds, demonstrating a concrete lower bound on economic harm from AI-driven cyberattacks.