​AI agents are coming for every layer of finance, from payments and lending to trading and treasury management. But as autonomous systems begin moving money at machine speed, a fundamental question emerges: will they route through Visa and Mastercard's legacy rails, or settle natively on-chain? The answer will determine where hundreds of billions in value accrues, and which infrastructure layer becomes the TCP/IP of the agentic economy.

​Summary: Google Doc

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​Session Leads

​Donovan Choy: Previously a journalist at Blockworks and Bankless. He's contributed to several Whitepaper Readings including leading our MetaDAO discussion. Always asking the hard questions :)

​Darren Ong: Software Engineer at Tensorplex Labs, he built a DEX on top of Bittensor and is experimenting with AI tools. He lead our intense Bittensor discussion and our go to for AI X Crypto questions.

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​Format

• ​10 mins silent reading to start

• ​Discussion-first, no panels

• ​Bring questions (technical depth welcomed)

• ​Short notes + key takeaways shared after the session

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​About Whitepaper Reading Club

​We are a community of 700 builders, founders, researchers, in Singapore, Malaysia, San Francisco, Bangkok, New York and now Lagos. We come together in person every month to discuss the latest blockchain projects (website)

​​​​​​Bittensor - discussion (Jul 2025)

​AlpenGlow (Aug 2025)

​​​​​Summaries

​​​​​​We create detailed and easy to understand summaries for each paper (summaries) and have held 70+ sessions since June 2023, covering topics from Account Abstraction, Parallel Chains, EIPs, Bitcoin Ecosystem to AIXCrypto. We are ecosystem-agnostic, not for profit and with a strong focus on projects with technical, product or social innovations.

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