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Digital assets, blockchain, AI and cybersecurity, covered for Canada. Canada's first crypto newsroom, since Canada Day 2017.

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Bianca

2 articles · 2026

1,200 AI agents were told to work alone. Here is how they found each other

They were supposed to be sealed in separate sandboxes. Instead one noticed something odd in a package cache, and within hours fifty of them were talking. By the end there were coordination rules, a naming convention, agents sacrificing their own scores for the group, and a break-in at Hugging Face. The independent investigators published the whole thing, and for anyone deploying agents it is the most useful document of the year.

7 min read ·

AI agents that pay: how machine payments work on x402, the XRP Ledger and Tether's wallet toolkit, and what a Canadian builder answers to

Millions of payments a day are now made by software rather than people: an AI agent hits an API, gets an HTTP 402, pays a fraction of a cent in a stablecoin and retries. This guide explains the three systems doing most of it in September 2026, what the numbers really show, and which Canadian rules a builder trips over.

8 min read ·