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The report projects that by 2033, AI-native workers could drive $262 billion in stablecoin settlement volume within the expanding gig economy.

A new open-source project called BoundFlow has emerged as an operational control plane for AI agents, designed to enforce guardrails like cost caps, approval gates, and self-healing policies.

Bitcoin industry heavyweights Michael Saylor and Adam Back have publicly criticized Bitcoin Improvement Proposal-110 (BIP-110), a proposed temporary fork aimed at curbing non-monetary transactions such as Ordinals inscriptions.

The BIP-110, or Reduced Data Temporary Soft Fork, aims to temporarily restrict non-financial data on the blockchain for one year, capping OP_RETURN and blocking arbitrary data chunks above 256 bytes.

Shares in Bitcoin treasury company Empery Digital rose on Friday after the firm disclosed it had sold nearly half its Bitcoin holdings to fund an AI data center project and pay down debt.