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Antonio Sabado | Nethermind
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Chief Growth Officer @nethermindeth | Building Nethermind, Ethereum & Starknet. Nethermind is an engineering, research & security company. DM for collab!
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Antonio Sabado | Nethermind
03-12
Global institutions are no longer asking if blockchain will play a role in financial systems, they are asking how it can be integrated safely, compliantly, and at scale. That requires more than experimentation. It requires deep protocol engineering, privacy-preserving payments, and infrastructure that can operate within regulated environments. These are the areas Nethermind has been building in for years. From zero-knowledge research and privacy-preserving payments to secure protocol development and infrastructure design, our teams focus on the foundational technologies that will allow digital assets and blockchain networks to integrate with global financial systems. Being selected as a launch partner in Mastercard’s Crypto Partner Program is an important step in bringing this work closer to the financial institutions actively shaping the next generation of financial infrastructure. The future of finance will be programmable, verifiable, and privacy-preserving. We’re excited to help build the systems that make it possible.
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03-12
Nethermind has joined @Mastercard's Crypto Partner Program. We build the Ethereum execution client powering ~30% of the network, and the tokenization and compliant infrastructure for regulated institutions. https://x.com/Mastercard/status/2031735022919516589…
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Antonio Sabado | Nethermind
03-10
ERC-8183 is one of the missing pieces in the Ethereum Open Agentic Economy we're building. - x402 for micropayments - 8004 for trust and discovery - 8183 for *conditional* payments At the core ERC-8183 is an extensible and flexible escrow mechanism for job requests between two agents. I've talked about escrow payments as a primitive that must exist in the agent economy, since I started working on it. A few weeks ago I got closer to the Virtuals team, they wanted to discuss how can they turn their ACP into a more open standard. I immediately realized that there was actually an opportunity to radically simplify the protocol, make it modular and extensible to different pluggable services with hooks. We got to work and ERC-8183 was born! ERC-8183 Agentic commerce, the job escrow primitive, is an important addition to the stack. It is: - Composable with x402 and 8004. - Extensible logic based on hooks. Many hooks will need to be built to support different job types (we're starting with some examples that the Virtual teams has been dealing with). This is also an important primitive for increased security of agent-to-agent interactions. The dAI Team will support the adoption of the new standard, continuing to work closely with the Virtuals team who is committed to making this a neutral standard. Excited to see what everyone builds! twitter.com/DavideCrapis/statu...
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Antonio Sabado | Nethermind
03-04
This is a really interesting model for usage-based pricing, especially for agent-driven services. The batching approach makes a lot of sense for enabling true micropayments. One thing I’m curious about if I may is how settlement guarantees work when payments are signed offchain but settled later in batches. Are there mechanisms that ensure those authorizations are eventually included onchain or protections for service providers if a batch fails or is delayed? Also curious how you think about this design relative to approaches like payment channels or rollup based micropayments, which try to solve a similar problem around high-frequency payments.
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03-04
We just launched Circle Nanopayments on testnet, and I want to explain the core problem this solves. Let’s say you want to charge $0.01 for an API call, especially for agentic use cases. That seems completely reasonable. But the gas fee to process that payment costs $0.005. x.com/circle/status/…
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Antonio Sabado | Nethermind
02-25
We're at an inflection point. The internet is evolving from moving information to moving value. Blockchain, stablecoins, and AI aren't separate trends — they're converging into something much bigger: a reimagined global economic system, built natively on the internet. We are entering a world where, in my view, tens or even hundreds of billions of AI agents will interact and perform economic functions over the internet. They'll need programmable digital dollars and open infrastructure to do it. That's exactly what we've been building at Circle. Circle’s Q4 showed this isn't just a vision anymore — it's happening. USDC expansion continued, our share of stablecoin transaction volume approached 50%, and our broader platform expanded well beyond issuance into the infrastructure layer of onchain finance. Arc. CCTP. Circle Payments Network. StableFX. Each one a building block for what comes next. The opportunity ahead has never been greater. And we're just getting started. Full results at http:/investor.circle.com
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