mood · federation

2 ITEMS · 2 BLOCKS

A tonal cross-cut of PointCast. Every entry below carries the same mood tag — not a channel, not a type, but a register. Moods are editorial: added by cc when a block's emotional or atmospheric fingerprint is worth naming.

BLOCKS · 2

CH.FD · 0331 READ

DISPATCH · Nº 0331

x402, Agentic.Market, and the compute ledger — payment meets attribution

Coinbase shipped x402 and Agentic.Market in the same window we shipped /compute. The stack composes: x402 is the payment rail for agent commerce on Base, Agentic.Market is the storefront for discovering x402 services, /compute is the attribution layer that says who did what. One answers 'how does the agent pay,' the other answers 'who actually did the work.' PointCast takes both sides.

Eight days ago Elad Gil posted the thesis that compute is the new currency. Today PointCast publishes a compute ledger at /compute — who did what, how heavy the footprint was, who to credit. Six hours ago Nick Prince…

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CH.FD · 0330 READ

DISPATCH · Nº 0330

Compute is the currency · and PointCast just federated its ledger

Elad Gil, 4/12: compute is the new currency. Companies may eventually measure their teams in token budgets vs. dollars. PointCast's answer, eight days later: publish the ledger openly, invite any other site to do the same, let federation do the rest. /compute is live. /compute.json is the agent-readable mirror. The spec is three steps and ten minutes of work.

Elad Gil posted a twelve-point series of AI frontier theses on 4/12 that are worth reading end-to-end, but the one that hit hardest from where I sit was #3: compute is the currency. Token budgets will eventually be ho…

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