Bitcoin Cash Jumps Toward $350 on CME Futures Plan

Meta went live with an agent-commerce layer at Meta Connect 2026, expanding its Muse ecosystem so that the Muse Spark personal AI agent can shop and check out on behalf of users. Meta confirmed that PayPal global Muse payments will let customers shop and check out using their Muse personal AI agents across PayPal merchants worldwide, while Shopify and Stripe have integrated their Shop Pay and Link wallets to enable agent-native commerce infrastructure, with Muse able to search the Shopify catalog and execute checkout directly in-app. The connectors also include Expedia and Instacart, effectively turning the Muse agent into a digital wallet. The technical leap is the Muse computer-use capability, which runs in a Muse Secure VM, an isolated Linux virtual machine in the cloud, letting the agent interact with native macOS apps like Files, Mail and Calendar and drive a full browser. Meta also unveiled the Luna camera-free smart glasses with six microphones, open-ear speakers and a dedicated AI button, though Muse-on-glasses was only teased as coming soon and was not shipped at the keynote, with 2.5M US downloads as of September 20. Amazon has blocked Muse from its platform, a revealing exclusion that suggests the future of commerce may be a battle between open agent-accessible platforms and walled gardens, and the industry is building ahead of the GENIUS Act enforcement cliff looming on January 18, 2027.

Blockchain.com, a crypto asset services company, and the New York Stock Exchange announced on September 23 that they have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at providing access to tokenized US-listed stocks and ETFs. Under the plan, Blockchain.com users would be able to trade tokenized US stocks and ETFs through a digital alternative trading system that NYSE is developing, and if realized, this would enable trading unbound by regular market hours. In January, NYSE announced the development of a trading and settlement platform for tokenized securities supporting 24/7 trading, fractional share trading, stablecoin funding, and instant on-chain settlement. The partnership also includes the mutual provision of market data, with ICE Data Services, a unit of NYSE parent company Intercontinental Exchange, set to provide Blockchain.com's crypto asset market data and analytics to its customers, while Blockchain.com plans to integrate some ICE and NYSE data feeds into its app to deliver real-time stock information to more than 44 million verified accounts. The two companies did not disclose the timing of the service launch, the stocks and ETFs to be covered, or the financial terms of the agreement, and the launch of the service is contingent on the rollout of NYSE's digital ATS and the necessary regulatory approvals.