What BlackRock's 'The Machine-Native Economy' Actually Says About x402 (With Receipts)

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BlackRock's Digital Assets Research team published an 11-page paper on September 22, 2026 — "The Machine-Native Economy: How digital assets connect intelligence, commerce, and compute" — and the crypto press ran with the headlines. I read the full PDF. Here's what's actually in it, what the coverage gets wrong, and the part nobody is writing about. "AI represents machine-native intelligence, while digital assets represent machine-native money." Both are built on tokenization — LLMs encode language as tokens, blockchains encode value as tokens. As agentic AI starts making purchases and initiati

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