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Pearl: The Missing Piece for AI?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a pivotal technology, and as its use grows, it demands more computational throughput than ever.
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AI, Agents & Autonomous Finance
AI and crypto converge around agency, ownership, and execution. Castle Labs covers agentic finance, AI-managed capital, autonomous vault curation, verifiable compute, private inference, and the protocols trying to make machine-led markets real. Our audience does not need generic AI excitement; it needs to know which agent systems can actually hold keys, allocate capital, verify work, and become part of financial infrastructure.
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·AIMarkets
The Beginning of Agentic Finance
How AI agents pay onchain via Ethereum's agentic stack: x402 payments, ERC-8004 trust and ERC-8183 commerce, why most x402 volume runs on Base, and key risks.
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AI: The Gift that Never Takes
AI Dispatch #44 recaps December: Virtuals' ACP passes $370m in agentic activity, Surf raises $15m, Trump's AI executive order, and verifiable AI via EigenCloud.
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Is AI in a Bubble?
With Bitcoin back at $86k and VIRTUALS below $0.85, how the sell-off hits crypto AI tokens, whether AI is in a bubble, and notes on Gemini 3 Pro and Opus 4.5.
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xMAQUINA: The Robotics Treasury Company
How xMAQUINA's DEUS works as a robotics treasury company: a $32M NAV with stakes in Figure, Apptronik and 1X, a SubDAO launchpad, and a 1.56x premium to NAV.
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Crypto, AI, Robotics: The Technological Trinity
How Virtuals is adding robotics to its stack and agentic GDP, and how ACP, Butler and Unicorn could let AI agents hire robots and settle payments onchain.
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An Introduction To Robotics: The Next Frontier of Crypto
Crypto x robotics is a ~$404M sector vs ~$112B for robotics stocks. How the stack works across peaq, Auki, Geodnet, CodecFlow and Silencio, with market caps.
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Agents, Infra, and Alpha
AI Dispatch #36: Virtuals launches its Butler agent on X, Nansen AI goes mobile, Ethereum forms a decentralised AI team, x402 payments, and Token2049 AI events.
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Can an AI Agent be your Personal Quant?
How Almanak's AI agent swarm acts as a personal quant, from strategy design to custody, privacy and human-in-the-loop safeguards. Its vaults passed $60M TVL.
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The AI Dispatch #34 - Robotics, Vader Pivot, Backroom OCDs
Crypto AI weekly: robotics tokens emerge as the next wave, Vader pivots to EgoPlay smart glasses tasks, SentientAGI drama, and Almanak passes $50M in TVL.
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The AI Dispatch #33 - Agent Pear 🍐
How Agent Pear finds pair trades by statistical arbitrage, flagging spreads beyond two standard deviations via z-scores, and executes on DEXs like Hyperliquid.
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Going Beyond GPT Wrappers: The Next Phase of AI Agents
Why LLM trading agents fall short and how Almanak uses structured multi-agent strategies and deterministic execution for verifiable onchain asset management.
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