Tong Zhang is a BlockAI News reporter covering DeFi, RWA, and L1/L2 ecosystems. He holds a Masters in Finance from the University of Adelaide and previously served as an Audit Manager at PwC. Active in Web3 since 2022, Tong combines traditional financial rigor with on-chain analysis to track how institutional capital is moving into digital assets.
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The Tillis-Alsobrooks compromise of May 1, 2026 drew a legal line that will reshape every stablecoin product in the US. Here's what it actually says, why banks pushed so hard for it, and what it means for your Coinbase rewards, PayPal PYUSD, and DeFi protocols like Aave.
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In six days, the SEC rewrote its onchain rulebook, Kraken's parent filed for a federal trust charter, and the Senate scheduled the CLARITY Act markup. This is not coincidence — it's the simultaneous assembly of institutional crypto's regulatory plumbing.
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Kraken's parent Payward filed for an OCC national trust charter on May 8, 2026 — the 12th crypto firm in under six months to do so. Here's what the charter actually does, what it doesn't, and why institutional custody hinges on this one federal license.
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AI agents can't fill out a Stripe form. This developer primer walks through agentic payments end-to-end: why stablecoins beat credit cards for autonomous software, how to pick USDC over USDT or PYUSD, how x402 and EIP-3009 actually work, a minimal TypeScript demo on Base, and a production risk ch...
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Google's Gemma 4 MTP drafters deliver up to 3x faster inference with zero quality loss — no new hardware required. This tutorial explains the autoregressive bottleneck, compares MTP vs speculative decoding vs draft models, unpacks Google's architecture choices, and shows realistic speed gains on ...