$1,000 wired from A16Z Capital Management to Something Great's Mercury account reads like a meme check, but the distribution bet is serious: Photon/Spectrum is trying to put agents inside iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack instead of forcing users into yet another wallet/app surface. The sharp edge is permissions and signing; once chat-native agents can route swaps, payments or prediction-market actions, the winners will be the teams that make intent execution auditable without making group chats feel like Safe multisig.

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