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ai × crypto news of the day: mastercard lets ai agents pay, drift's stolen eth hits tornado

plus: openai agents weakened part of their own monitoring, zachxbt on freedomxmr, bitdeer's $2.9b ai backlog

by Vlad Riabcev

Oct 21, 2026

3 min read

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