Web3 News: AWS Enters Crypto & Solana’s 150ms Upgrade

Web3 News: AWS Enters Crypto & Solana’s 150ms Upgrade

AWS gives AI agents a wallet, Solana announces its biggest protocol upgrade ever (Alpenglow), and Kraken drops $600M to take on Stripe.

If you’re building on Web3, your infrastructure and architecture are shifting right now. In this episode of Running Web3 Weekly, we break down the most critical product updates, protocol upgrades, and M&A moves of the week. No token prices, no meme coins—just the technical signal that actually powers the industry.

⏱ Timestamps & Topics:
00:00 — Intro: The Week in Web3
00:29 — Kraken Buys Reap for $600M: The Shift to Stablecoin B2B Payments
01:42 — Solana Alpenglow Q3 2026: 150ms Finality & Off-Chain Voting
02:47 — Bitcoin eCash Fork: Reallocating Satoshi’s Coins & Replay Protection
04:01 — AWS + Coinbase + Stripe: AgentCore Payments Live
04:54 — Clarity Act: White House Targets July 4th for Historic Crypto Law
05:53 — DTCC Testing High-Performance L1s for $20 Trillion Daily Volume
06:58 — Ripple + Crypto ISAC: Fighting North Korean Social Engineering
07:57 — Cloudflare & x402: How to Charge AI Bots for Web Scraping
08:55 — Telegram Replaces TON Foundation: Centralization vs. Distribution
09:31 — Web3 Dev Activity Drops 75%: How AI is Changing Open-Source
10:24 — Outro

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