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Daily Edition · Page 4

THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

MARKETS & BUSINESS

TLDR Crypto

TLDR Crypto

MORGAN STANLEY TOKENIZES US EQUITIES AND TREASURYS WITH DTCC

Morgan Stanley tokenized US equities and Treasurys using DTCC's new service, which opened last week with 20 participants, including JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Fidelity, State Street, and UBS. DTC holds $114T in custody, and the service was built with input from 150+ firms, initially supporting Canton and a private Besu network. Morgan Stanley now expects tokenized equities on its ATS in Q1 2027, later than its prior H2 2026 target. NYSE/ICE are also building a tokenized trading platform, with Broadridge, Computershare, Equiniti, and Superstate signed as transfer agents.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

SOLAR: PARADIGM'S 100X FASTER SOLIDITY COMPILER

Paradigm's Solar is a new Solidity compiler that compiles contracts over 100x faster than Solc, the current standard. Beyond compilation speed, Solar produces more EVM-efficient bytecode than Solady without requiring inline assembly, reducing on-chain execution costs for deployed contracts. The compiler also resolves the Stack Too Deep error, a long-standing constraint that forced Solidity developers to restructure code or rely on workarounds. Solar is available now via Foundry: run foundryup, then forge --use solar.

threadreaderapp.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

SEC TOKEN TAXONOMY FAQ CLARIFIES DECENTRALIZATION STANDARDS FOR BUILDERS

The SEC released a new FAQ expanding its token taxonomy framework, drawing on three clarifications flagged by a16z crypto General Counsel Miles Jennings. Q 1.4 confirms that projects can maintain decentralized governance while using legal entities like DUNAs (Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Associations), resolving a structural question teams have faced when adding off-chain legal wrappers to on-chain protocols. Q 1.5 draws a formal line between permissioned and permissionless systems, and Q 1.6 separates "functional" tokens from tokens that qualify as investment contracts under securities law. Builders now have clearer criteria from the SEC to determine whether their protocol architecture and token design fall outside the agency's jurisdiction.

threadreaderapp.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

CRYPTO PROTOCOLS ARE WINNING THE AI INFERENCE PRICE WAR

Centralized inference providers face structural pricing floors tied to manual approval gates, regional electricity costs, and capital-market margin requirements, creating an opening for permissionless crypto routing layers. Surplus lets holders of excess API credits from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek sell at a discount for USDC with no KYC, posting 57x token growth (10B to 570B tokens/day) and 78x request growth (143k to 11.2M/day) over the past 90 days. Engy runs a global miner competition on hardware and electricity efficiency, growing from 2.7B to 153B tokens/day while buyback-directed revenue climbed from $363 to $8,000/day in the same window. With the inference market at $160B/year and projected to reach $350B, autonomous AI agents consuming 5x more tokens than humans will concentrate purchasing power in the cheapest available providers, positioning these protocols to capture a growing share of AI compute spend as agent usage scales.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

AGENTIC COMMERCE OVERHYPED TODAY; UNDERHYPED FOR THE NEXT 3-6 MONTHS

Agentic commerce is overhyped on current usage but will be underhyped on volume within 3-6 months, and products not optimized for agents will be left behind. Agents still fail often (browser use is slow and buggy, and credentials and payments carry friction), so 99% of consumers churn at the first issue. Most consumers outside SF don't use agents at all, and current products mainly serve high-income, tech-forward users. Growth will likely come from ChatGPT (1.2B weekly users) as it adds a wallet and in-chat purchases, with early data showing AI-driven traffic converts better than non-AI traffic.

threadreaderapp.com · 2 min

TLDR Crypto

KAMINO'S NO-EQUITY MODEL TESTS IF VALUE ACCRUAL IS DEFI'S LAST MOAT

Kamino Finance has structured $KMNO to eliminate the equity/token split that has drained value from most DeFi protocols: the Kamino Foundation holds all IP and captures 100% of revenue, including institutional deals, with $KMNO as the sole ownership layer and no separate equity class for founders, investors, or the team. CEO WeiszM committed $20M over two years to expand Kamino into banks, brokerages, and wallets, with his personal allocation vesting only if $KMNO hits and holds a series of valuation milestones rather than on a standard time schedule. This is a direct answer to the bank tokenization challenge posed by products like StanChart's tokenized deposits in Hong Kong: banks can earn spread from on-chain infrastructure but cannot structurally route that upside to depositors, while a foundation-owned revenue model can. User-owned value accrual, not openness or permissionlessness, is DeFi's defensible moat as traditional finance moves on-chain.

threadreaderapp.com · 1 min

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