NectarPay Tests Demand for Crypto Payments Among Texas Retailers
Are consumers ready to spend bitcoin on everyday goods? Cryptocurrency payment platform NectarPay is testing that question with a rollout of 11,000 handheld point-of-sale terminals to merchants across Texas, following an initial deployment of 1,000 terminals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The terminals are designed to allow merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments directly from customers […]
The Bilt Card: From Friction to Failure
We were early in calling out the structural problems facing any card issuer willing to underwrite a co-brand built around rewards on rent payments. The partner economics were thin, the consumer behavior assumptions were fragile, and the rental market itself was too fragmented to support a clean, scalable model. A spreadsheet can make almost any […]
Anthropic’s Mythos Test Raises New Concerns About Social Engineering
A recent test of Anthropic’s Mythos model has raised a question for the cybersecurity industry—as AI systems become more capable, will defenders need to prepare not only for criminals using AI, but also for AI agents that can independently manipulate people and systems? According to CNBC, the concern emerged after the UK’s AI Security Institute […]
The Death of the Payment Router: Why “Compliance as an OS” is the Only Way Forward for 2026
For a decade, the pitch to institutions was clear: faster transactions, lower costs, and a way around the traditional banking sector. That pitch is now obsolete. It’s not because it stopped being true; it’s because it’s no longer the question capital holders are asking. A treasurer deciding whether to settle nine figures over stablecoin rails […]