▶ 7:35 · $USDC · Armstrong: Stablecoins will be default payment rail for agentic economy, sub-second global settlement

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Brian Armstrong on Bitcoin, Anthropic Drops Fable 5 & Mythos 5, NewLimit's $435M Age-Reversal | 264

2026-06-11 · 9 company · 9 thematic

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speakers

brian armstrong

Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the largest US crypto exchange, and a leading voice on crypto policy and adoption.

alex wissner-gross

Computer scientist, physicist, entrepreneur and investor whose work spans artificial intelligence and complex systems. He is the founder and managing partner of Reified.

peter diamandis

Peter Diamandis hosts the Moonshots podcast with a panel of 'mates.' He founded XPRIZE and Singularity University, sits on boards of Trust & Will and Vesmark, and runs the Future Vision XPRIZE for positive AI futures. He frames discussions around the 'singularity economy' and exponential technologies.

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“I think actually like stablecoin payments will probably be the the default layer for the agentic economy. And right now today a lot of people are just interfacing with one AI agent to get information back. But increasingly we'll be interfa…”

—brian armstrong

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