The Blockchain Library Weekly: Navigating The New Infrastructure Standards

Agent Skills Need Supply-Chain Rules, Not Just a Neutral Home

Anthropic's donation of agent skills is a positive governance step, but real success lies in ensuring portable skills are trustworthy before they propagate across platforms.

Stablecoin Payment Costs Need an All-In Denominator

New research from the BIS and Bank of Canada argues that stablecoin payment costs must account for FX, liquidity, and compliance, rather than just transaction fees.

Glamsterdam Makes Gas Assumptions a Test Suite, Not a Constant

The Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade introduces a new paradigm where developers must treat gas and state access as versioned dependencies that require rigorous testing.

AI Auditors Need the Right to Publish, Not Just the Right to Look

Independent oversight in AI security is impossible without the explicit right to publish findings, highlighting the limitations of current auditor access models.

Canada’s Stablecoin Framework Has Three Compliance Layers

Canada's new Stablecoin Act demands that builders carefully map their products across distinct compliance layers for issuance, payment services, and trading.

AI Agent Benchmarks Need Sandboxes, Not Live Websites

To mitigate unintended agent actions, the industry must shift away from live-web testing in favor of contained sandboxes and isolated boundary scoring.

Wallets Should Sign Outcomes, Not Just Instructions

A proposed standard for Ethereum suggests shifting wallet security toward enforcing the final desired outcomes rather than just authorizing individual transaction calls.

Swift’s Tokenised Payments Need Two Clocks: Availability and Settlement

As Swift scales tokenized payments, businesses must recognize the distinction between usable customer funds and the timeline of final interbank settlement.

Ethereum’s zkAPI Separates AI Billing From Identity—Not From the Prompt

While the new zkAPI provides billing privacy, it underscores that network privacy, payment privacy, and prompt privacy require distinct engineering approaches.

Crypto Custody Rules Should Test Recovery, Not Just Key Control

The SEC’s evolving custody framework highlights that regulatory focus should shift toward recovery processes and insolvency outcomes instead of relying solely on key possession.

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