Compliance and regulatory officers jumping ship (highly tracked in tech), executive leadership shakeups amid IPO positioning, and “acqui-hires” where a struggling startup is bought solely for its engineering team.
Mastercard has introduced Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a new service designed to enable AI agents and machines to conduct programmatic, high-speed, always-on transactions across its global payments network. The June 10 announcement builds on Mastercard’s existing Agent Pay program and focuses on bringing structure, permissioning, and settlement capabilities to machine-driven commerce. Key features include:…
Play-to-earn games must be underpinned by sustainable models to ensure players continue to play the games. And the heart of this sustainability lies in a game’s token and that token’s external incentives. Play-to-earn games are shifting focus in the gaming industry from strict entertainment, as has always been the case, to entertainment with built-in economic…
Inefficiency, fraud, and obscurity in land registration is a tale as old as time. Look no further for proof than The Statute of Frauds, which England put into law in 1677. At the time, land fraud plagued the country. English courts found themselves bogged down in perjury and forged deeds in land sales. In the…