Qover just raised $12 million to do something audacious: build the infrastructure for a truly global insurance safety net. With AI accelerating what's possible, this Belgian insurtech is betting big on embedded insurance becoming as ordinary as checkout buttons.
Canadian FinTech funding exploded 52% year-over-year in Q4 2025, but the real story isn't the headline number—it's that investors are suddenly willing to write bigger checks. What changed?
Coinbase's x402 protocol just achieved something crypto rarely does: getting Google, Stripe, and Amazon to agree on a standard. This isn't hype—it's the infrastructure layer that AI agents need to actually transact in the real world.
Thirteen million transactions in a single week. Then silence. The x402 protocol's explosive rise and mysterious collapse tells us something crucial about the next era of AI—and where the real money flows.
In February 2024, stablecoins did something nobody expected: they processed more transaction volume than the entire US banking system's foundational infrastructure. This isn't hype—it's a structural realignment.