Coinbase has selected Chainlink to help bring new tokenized stocks to millions of DeFi users. The partnership connects one of the biggest crypto platforms with a leading blockchain-oracle network to push traditional equities deeper into decentralized finance. Tokenized stocks could give investors access to traditional market exposure through blockchain-based infrastructure, creating another bridge between conventional finance and crypto markets. The move is particularly significant because it targets distribution at scale rather than treating tokenized securities as a small experimental product. It also highlights how major crypto companies are increasingly moving beyond cryptocurrency trading and building infrastructure around tokenized versions of traditional assets. For traditional financial markets, the development adds further momentum to the idea that equities could increasingly exist and circulate on blockchain networks.
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Agentic Commerce: China’s Lead, Europe’s Choice
As an increasing number of repetitive and standardized tasks are transferred from humans to machines and algorithms, a technological revolution is unfolding. For the first time in history, proactive digital assistants are no longer solely acting passively on behalf of their users. Instead, they are assuming greater responsibility, independently determining which decisions and actions are required and carrying them out autonomously. This new phase of technological development is known as the “agentic era”.
In the financial services industry, digital banking tools served for many years as passive assistants: they displayed account balances, categorized expenses, or helped users compare products. More recent consumer systems are beginning to move beyond information provision toward delegated action: Agentic financial advisors can automatically rebalance portfolios within predefined risk profiles or deliver proactively personalized financial insights like a balance forecast for the next 14 days. Fraud-detection systems can block suspicious activity before a human customer has even noticed a problem. These financial systems show how digital services gradually move from helping users understand a situation to executing bounded decisions on their behalf.
Ecommerce in 2026 is at a comparable stage when it comes to the integration of autonomous systems. As increasingly capable AI systems begin to search, negotiate, and complete transactions on behalf of users, commerce is shifting from a model of digital assistance to one of digital delegation.
This shift matters because delegation changes the competitive logic of commerce. In the platform era, firms competed primarily for attention. They optimized rankings, interfaces and checkout design in order to influence human buyers (van Dijck et al., 2019). In an agentic environment the rulebook changes: here, infrastructure through which delegated action is authorized and executed becomes strategically decisive. If an AI agent can select products, trigger payments, and manage post-purchase interactions, then the critical layer is the system of permissions and trust behind it.
The current situation in China offers an early view of what agentic commerce can look like when AI, payments, content, and services develop inside densely integrated digital ecosystems. The country’s long trajectory in digital payments and platform-based service integration created favorable conditions for low-friction delegation (Bech et al., 2020). This makes the current situation of agentic commerce in China a good starting point for evaluating possible future measures for European ecommerce companies.
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💳 Payments
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🏦 Banking
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Scalable Opens Investment Platform to Major AI Chatbots
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Itoflow Raises $2.5M for Investment Research AI Agents
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Google Cloud Launches Agentic AI Tool for Financial Services
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Clear Street Expands Electronic Execution Across Europe and Asia-Pacific
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🪙 Crypto
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📈 WealthTech
StashAway Acquires Digital Wills Startup MakeGoodwill
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34 Malware Families Target 1,243 Banking and Fintech Apps
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Stripe Expands Infrastructure After 10 Years in Singapore
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