{"podcast":{"title":"Web3 Tech Brief By HackerNoon","slug":"web3-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365654","podcast_index_feed_id":6365654,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/web3-tech-brief-by-hackernoon","website_url":"https://hackernoon.com/c/web3","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/oE14NKahNVxAYFSG0eBjEan_Nk-HTHCAV1vsruoUK1k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxMTY4LzE2ODMz/MTU4ODQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.jpg","author":"HackerNoon","episode_count":100,"summary":"Learn the latest Web3 updates in the tech world.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T06:17:35.772973+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/web3-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365654"},"episode":{"title":"Stablecoins, Autonomous Payments and the Dollar’s Next Act","slug":"stablecoins-autonomous-payments-and-the-dollar-s-next-act","published_at":"2026-06-16T16:01:21+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/web3-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365654/stablecoins-autonomous-payments-and-the-dollar-s-next-act","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/web3-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365654","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/daf3a48e","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/daf3a48e/f55c4c68.mp3","summary":"This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/stablecoins-autonomous-payments-and-the-dollars-next-act . Money became programmable and payments now run without humans: two chapters of one race where almost everything still settles in dollars. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3 . You can also check exclusive content about #stablecoins , #x402 , #ai-agents , #autonomous-ai-agents-payment , #programmable-money , #digital-dollar , #payment-automation , #crypto-regulation , and more. This story was written by: @javiermateos . Learn more about this writer by checking @javiermateos's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . Every great economic leap was really a leap in transactionality, and money always had to evolve to keep up — the latest step being programmable money. Two chapters are now unfolding at once: stablecoins (programmable dollars, 97% of them dollar-denominated) and autonomous payments that execute with no human pressing a button, via protocols like x402. Both lead to the same question — how much transactionality can the system handle, and what does control look like when the one paying may not be a person? The spoiler runs from end to end: almost everything still settles in dollars.","meta_description":"This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/stablecoins-autonomous-payments-and-the-dollars-next-act . Money became progr…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2154,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/web3-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365654/episodes/stablecoins-autonomous-payments-and-the-dollar-s-next-act/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/web3-tech-brief-by-hackernoon-6365654/stablecoins-autonomous-payments-and-the-dollar-s-next-act.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}