There are two themes this week prediction markets and x402 payments. x402 being payments over the internet. Yes you may think we have payments on the internet, but we don't. It's not as native as just browsing around and paying that way for e.g. news articles behind a paywall right? we'll get there and agents need us to get there.
The other theme of prediction markets getting a lot of attention in crypto right now is interesting as they now seem like a category where your regular tool developers can now add on top professional dashboards, very simplified end user experiences and fun social dynamics.

1. Prediction Markets will become a thing. New York Stock Exchange parent company is bringing $2B into Polymarket as strategic investment. PS: yes Polymarket had Farcaster Frames a year ago!

2. Farcaster adds support for Binance Smart Chain to the wallet https://farcaster.xyz/dwr/0x00828dc2

3. "x402 and AP2 show that agent-to-agent payments aren’t just an experiment anymore, they’re becoming part of how developers actually build. Bringing x402 into AP2 to power stablecoin payments made sense - it’s a natural playground for agents to start transacting with each other and testing out crypto rails. And it’s exciting to see the idea of agents paying each other resonate with the broader AI community." – Erik Reppel, Head of Engineering at Coinbase Developer Platform

   https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-agents-to-payments-ap2-protocol

What did you see? tag @samuellhuber.eth on Farcaster to ping great insights for next week's episode.

Here's the current overview of Farcaster metrics.

• How much funds do users hold? aka what's the liquidity you can tap into? How much of these is held by quality users?

• Is the network growing? How many of these users are considered quality (using OpenRank global scores for filtering). How does activity look like?

• Which chains are used the most among influential accounts and how does Base vs Solana dominance look like?

• How many daily active users (DAU) does Farcaster have right now? How much activity exists aka how many new posts? how many of these new posts are from quality users?

The full data can be viewed live on the Dune Dashboard

Regarding x402 and agentic payments look at what https://farcaster.xyz/xr0am- is doing with tip.md