Fuse Network Doubles Down on Its veteran L1 Blockchain to Power AI-Enabled Payments and Commerce

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Tel Aviv, Israel, May 12th, 2026/Chainwire/--Fuse Network just published its roadmap, built around a single conviction: the missing piece in last-mile payments isn't regulation, isn't adoption. It's the right infrastructure. And AI agents are what finally makes that infrastructure viable at scale.

The end game of blockchain payments was never cheaper rails for Visa. It was giving every business and every person a private key, and letting them interact directly with financial infrastructure without paying a cut to anyone in the middle. The long tail of the global economy, the street vendor, the freelancer, the local delivery network, has always been the real market. They just never had access to the technology, and integrating it required developers, budgets, and technical expertise that most of them will never have.

AI changes that last part. The development bottleneck that kept blockchain infrastructure out of reach for smaller players is gone. For...

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America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames

I wonder what's in 'external-secret-repo-creds.yaml' and 'AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv'? The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) left open a GitHub repository named “Private-CISA” containing plain-text passwords, private keys, tokens, and secrets – with obvious file names like “external-secret-repo-creds.yaml” and “AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv” – for six

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