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SpruceID wants your ID to keep a secret
The company behind California’s digital DMV wallet is tackling a peculiar problem: proving who you are without telling everyone more than they need to know.
The Certificate That Learned to Travel
A certificate used to end a course. Accredible built a business on the moment after: when a learner needs proof that travels, and an issuer wants to know whether anyone noticed.
Catena Labs
Catena Labs is a Boston-based fintech building what it calls the first AI-native financial institution - a regulated bank and governance platform designed for AI agents that autonomously send and receive money. Founded in 2025 by Circle co-founder and USDC co-creator Sean Neville, Catena pairs agent identity, deterministic spending policies, and audit trails with account management and stablecoin, card, ACH and wire payment rails. It also open-sourced the Agent Commerce Kit (ACK), a set of protocols for agent identity and payments built on W3C web standards.