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🧠 Fintech Nerdcon 2026. San Diego. Tickets Live!

Feb 4, 2026

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3 min read

🧠 Fintech Nerdcon 2026. San Diego. Tickets Live!

Miami proved it. Now we're back. 19th and 20th November 2026.

Simon Taylor

Feb 1, 2026

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14 min read

🧠 The Agentic Payments Map

ACP, UCP, A2P, AXTP, x402. If your eyes just glazed over, you’re not alone.

Simon Taylor

🧠 How Commerce is Being Reinvented for Agentic AI

Discovery, referral, policy, cart building, authorization, and fulfillment, are all being reimagined and reinvented. Plus; Google's Universal Cart, The Fintech Executive Order and Mercury's $500m Series D.

Simon Taylor

🧠 The Token Economy pt2: The Intelligence Company Gets Built

May 17, 2026

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16 min read

🧠 The Token Economy pt2: The Intelligence Company Gets Built

Some companies are rebuilding themselves around AI. Everyone else is waiting for a lab, vendor, owner, or competitor to do it to them.

Simon Taylor

🧠 The Token Economy: Tokenmaxxing Is Stupid Until It Isn’t

May 10, 2026

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18 min read

🧠 The Token Economy: Tokenmaxxing Is Stupid Until It Isn’t

Meta engineers burned 60 trillion AI tokens in 30 days. Anthropic has compressed product cycles from months to days. Meanwhile, nearly 90% of firms say AI has had no impact on productivity or employment.

Simon Taylor