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We Just Shipped an API That Charges $0.01 Per Call — In USDC, On-Chain, No Account

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Phase 4 is live: the same Bitcoin cycle data, on-chain indicators, and aggregated strategy insights now reachable through three channels — REST, MCP, and x402 pay-per-call in USDC on Base. No account required for the third. An AI agent gets HTTP 402, signs a USDC authorization, retries, and has the data three seconds later. What's actually live, why we built it this way, and the Coinbase detour that cost us a day.

x402MCPREST-API+7
May 23, 20261 min
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We're Opening Our API: REST + MCP + (soon) x402

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For 18 months we've been quietly building Backtesting Arena — a platform where 500+ users have run 10,000+ backtests across Bitcoin, stocks, ETFs, commodities, and forex. Daily cycle scores, on-chain indicators, sentiment dashboards, strategy insights. All powered by the same data layer that's been running on a private quasi-API.

APIMCPX402+1
May 21, 20261 min
★ FeaturedMarket Structure

AI Agents and Crypto Payments: Where This Is Really Heading

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This is the crypto-rail deep-dive companion to our earlier piece [AI and the Future of Payment Systems](https://tradingstrategies.work/blog/ai-future-of-payment-systems-2026), which covered the broader fintech picture including Visa Intelligent Commerce and Mastercard Agent Pay. Here we zoom in on what's happening on the crypto layer specifically.

AI-AgentsCryptoPayment-Systems+3
May 15, 20261 min
Strategy

Triple Strike Reversal — A Strategy Not Made to Stand Alone

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Most trading strategies are sold to you as complete solutions. "Run this system, make money." Enter signal. Exit signal. Repeat. Base rate win percentages plastered across the landing page.

Triple StrikePortfolio OverlayLeverage+5
Jul 6, 20261 min
Tools

Backtesting Arena Is Now a Claude Connector

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Backtesting Arena can now be connected to claude.ai with a single click — 65 tools for Bitcoin cycle, on-chain data, macro regime and validated backtests. Instead of generic web-search answers, Claude pulls real, DSR-corrected and point-in-time data. Plus a new interactive tool: the Dip Decision calculator.

ClaudeMCPConnector+5
Jul 5, 20261 min
Tools

What Agents Actually Pay For in Finance Research — The Provider's View

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Everyone talks about the agent economy. From the provider side — I run x402-paid financial endpoints — what agents actually buy today is sober: ingredients. And where the line runs between real and vision.

x402ai-agentsagentic-economy+2
Jul 1, 20261 min
Tools

Bitcoin On-Chain: How Big Is the Wrapped-BTC Ecosystem Really?

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"Bitcoin is going productive" — they say. Wrapped BTC brings BTC into DeFi. How big is it really, who dominates, where are the catches? A sober map.

bitcoindefiwrapped-btc+2
Jul 1, 20261 min
Market Analysis

On a Short Leash: How the US Pushes Its Debt to the Short End

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The US Treasury increasingly funds itself with short-dated T-bills. That lowers cost today — and builds rollover risk for tomorrow. A methodical read on the mechanics behind the headlines.

MacroTreasuriesT-Bills+2
Jul 1, 20261 min
Strategy

When Fees Kill a Strategy: Why We Benched Our Second-Most-Popular One

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Our backtest engine used to compute returns before costs. We built a net-of-cost layer that re-prices every fill at a realistic fee — and it flipped our second-most-popular strategy negative after fees. Here is the math, the numbers, and why "beats buy-and-hold" is half a truth until you pay the fees.

net-of-costtrading-feesbacktesting+4
Jul 1, 20261 min
Market Analysis

AI in the Drug-Discovery Race: Shovels, Bets, Giants

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Asking which company is well-positioned in the AI drug-discovery race is really three questions at once. We sort the field soberly into shovels, bets, and giants — and show which layer earns regardless of any single trial outcome.

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Jul 1, 20261 min
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