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As AI Agents reshape commerce, and make every business an open book, companies will need to figure out what data actually needs to be kept secret – and protect it ferociously – in order to thrive.
magine a tireless analyst who works around the clock, cross-referencing a company's onchain purchasing patterns with satellite imagery of its warehouses, correlating its job postings with its patent filings, and mapping its entire supply chain by watching the flow of smart contract payments. This analyst never sleeps, never loses focus and costs almost nothing to run.
That analyst is coming. It's an AI agent, and your competition will have one.
The rush to build agentic commerce is well underway. The combination of decision-making AI with smart contracts on blockchains is genuinely powerful. Consumer-facing agents will go bargain hunting and close deals autonomously. Enterprise agents will forecast demand and execute procurement at scale through onchain contracts. The efficiency gains are enormous.
But this technology works in both directions. The same infrastructure that lets an enterprise agent negotiate better deals also broadcasts a remarkable amount of information about how that enterprise operates. Public blockchains have no native privacy. And "security by obscurity" — the hope that nobody will bother to piece together all those scattered data points — collapses completely when automated agents can spend their nights reverse-engineering a competitor's operations, for pennies.
Companies have always leaked intelligence. iFixit has built a business around tearing apart every major new electronics product within days of launch, exposing components, likely bill-of-materials costs, and manufacturing approaches for anyone to study. Satellite imagery firms already track everything from warehouse activity to crop yields to oil tanker movements, selling the insights to hedge funds and competitors alike. Specialized competitive intelligence firms have long mapped supply chains and reverse-engineered pricing strategies.
What's different now is the synthesis. Each of these data streams, taken alone, tells a partial story. An agentic system can pull them all together — public filings, onchain transaction flows, satellite data, job postings, patent applications, shipping records — and deliver not just raw data about your competition but a coherent picture of their strategic road map, updated continuously.
The question this forces is not whether competitors will know more. They will. The question is: what should companies do about it?
The first step is a clear-eyed audit, from first principles, of what needs to be confidential — because sensitive information is not always treated as such.
Take business strategy. Companies have to tell shareholders so they'll buy the stock. They have to tell employees so they'll pull in the same direction. They need to tell partners so they'll invest alongside them. And once they've told all those audiences, they've effectively told the competition too. Strategy has not been a real secret for a long time.
The best companies already know this. Apple doesn't hide that it's building an ecosystem play. Amazon doesn't disguise its obsession with logistics efficiency. They don't win by surprise. They win by execution.
And even execution, at a high level, is more transparent than most people admit. Anyone can walk into a Walmart store and catalog every product on the shelves. Anyone can unscrew the back of any piece of electronics and identify every component. Any analyst can read the 10-K and map out the cost structure.
The answer isn't to avoid blockchains — the efficiency and automation benefits are too significant. The answer is to demand privacy as foundational infrastructure, built in from the start, not bolted on as an afterthought.
And the rethinking won't stop at blockchain transactions. Enterprises will need to examine every digital touchpoint — email metadata, web server configurations, government disclosures, DNS records — with fresh eyes, asking not "could someone find this?" but "what could an agent synthesize from this combined with everything else it knows?"
The world is entering an era where the floor of competitive intelligence rises dramatically for everyone. Agents will make the kind of analysis that once required dedicated teams and significant budgets available to any company willing to deploy them.
The companies that will thrive aren't the ones that try to hide everything — that's a losing game. They're the ones that will clearly distinguish between what can't be secret (strategy, product design, market positioning) and what must be (operational mechanics, pricing terms, supplier relationships), and then invest seriously in the infrastructure to protect what matters.
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CAIRO, April 26 (Reuters) - Analysts have shaved their forecasts for Egyptian economic growth in a Reuters poll for this year and next as the Iran war drives up energy prices and puts ​pressure on inflation.
Gross domestic product growth will be 4.6% in the year to June, 4.6% next year ‌and 5.5% in 2027/28, according to the median estimate of 12 economists surveyed April 8-23.
In a January poll, before the war broke out, economists had predicted growth of 4.9%, thinking reforms taken under an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme two years earlier were bearing fruit faster than
We ​expect energy prices to remain high in the coming quarters, even after the normalisation of flows through ​the Strait of Hormuz. It will fuel inflationary pressure in Egypt," said Pascal Devaux of BNP ⁠Paribas
In this context, we expect a slowdown in activity in Egypt, but not a sharp drop."
Growth slumped to 2.4% ​in 2023/24 but rebounded after March 2024 when Egypt sharply devalued its currency and raised interest rates as part of ​an $8 billion IMF financial support package.
The central bank, citing the Iran war, this month revised down its year-on-year GDP growth forecast for fiscal 2025/26 to 4.9% from the 5.1% it had predicted in February.
Last week the IMF likewise chopped its projected growth to 4.2% in calendar 2026 from ​an earlier estimate of 4.7%.
In addition to raising energy prices, the war could also hurt tourism in Egypt, slow the ​flow of remittances from Egyptians working in the Gulf and reduce tolls from ships passing through the Suez Canal
The poll forecast inflation ‌would average ⁠13.5% in 2025/26, 12.00% in 2026/27 and 9.0% in 2027/28. Economists had put inflation at 11.6%, 9.1% and 8.2% in the last poll.
Egypt's annual urban consumer inflation increased to a faster-than-expected ​15.2% in March from 13.4% ​in February, according to the ⁠state statistics agency CAPMAS.
The Iran conflict is seen pushing the central bank to slow an easing cycle of its overnight interest rates begun a year ago.
Analysts forecast the lending rate ​to still be 20.00% by end-June, then slip to 17.0% by end-June next year ​and 13.25% end-June ⁠2028. Analysts in the January survey had expected a 200 basis point cut by January and another 500-point cut by June 2027.
The central bank cut its benchmark rate five times in 2025 and yet once again in February for a cumulative drop ⁠of 825 ​basis points.
Contributors expected the Egyptian pound to inch weaker to 51.58 to ​the U.S. dollar by end-June 2026 from its current 51.06 pounds. It is expected to be 51.50 by end-June 2027 and 51.85 at the end ​of June 2028.
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The new guidance says that “staff would not object if a broker-dealer were to apply a 2% haircut on proprietary positions.”
In a statement on Thursday responding to the guidance, Commissioner Hester Peirce said the use of stablecoins could allow brokers to do more.
The new FAQ marks the SEC’s latest move in being more friendly to the digital asset industry.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission introduced new guidance allowing broker-dealers to apply a "2% haircut" to proprietary positions in certain stablecoins — a move that some crypto stakeholders say helps bring digital assets closer to traditional finance.
In guidance issued on Thursday by the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets, the staff addressed a customer protection rule requiring broker-dealers to safeguard customers' assets and maintain a cushion for those assets. The new guidance says that "staff would not object if a broker-dealer were to apply a 2% haircut on proprietary positions." A haircut is typically a percentage applied to an asset when it is being used as collateral.
In a statement responding to the guidance, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said the use of stablecoins could allow brokers to do more.
Stablecoins are essential to transacting on blockchain rails," she said. "Using stablecoins will make it feasible for broker-dealers to engage in a broader range of business activities relating to tokenized securities and other crypto assets."
The new FAQ marks the SEC's latest move in being more friendly to the digital asset industry. Over the past year, the SEC has created a crypto task force covering topics ranging from custody to tokenization, embarked on "Project Crypto" to modernize its rules around crypto, and has plans to propose an innovation exemption to integrate tokenization into the capital markets.
More broadly, federal agencies are also working to implement a new law, called GENIUS, that passed last year, creating a federal regulatory framework for stablecoins.
Firms have to apply "haircuts" to assets to reflect risk, so more volatile assets get bigger haircuts. Some brokers were imposing an 100% haircut on stablecoins, according to Tonya Evans, making holding stablecoins more unaffordable. Evans is a fintech strategist and board member of the Digital Currency Group.
"A 2% haircut changes that calculus entirely by putting payment stablecoins on par with money market funds, which hold similar underlying assets like U.S. Treasuries, cash, and short-term government securities," Evans wrote in a Forbes article.
Former Avalanche COO Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo said the new SEC guidance would mean that stablecoins could be treated like money-market funds. The move "removes a major friction point," and also means stablecoins can become a larger part of traditional finance.
Lowers the barrier for deeper integration of stablecoins into traditional finance rails = better liquidity, more efficient settlement, and broader institutional on-ramp," he said in a post on X.
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Kenya has blocked a second fuel shipment from docking at the Port of Mombasa as investigations intensify into a controversial cargo import deal, deepening scrutiny of the country’s oil supply chain and triggering high-level resignations.
Kenya has blocked a second fuel shipment at Mombasa amid investigations into a controversial government oil import deal.
Scrutiny intensified following irregularities with an initial shipment, leading to a probe into possible system manipulation.
Key officials, including the heads of regulatory and supply agencies, have resigned over attempts to undermine the fuel import framework.
President William Ruto vowed a crackdown on entrenched oil cartels and external pressures affecting the sector.
The move follows concerns surrounding an earlier fuel shipment that had already entered Kenya's supply chain but was later flagged over irregularities linked to its procurement and handling under the government-to-government oil import framework.
The initial cargo, now at the center of investigations, raised red flags within regulatory and government circles, prompting a broader probe into potential manipulation of the system.
The recent investigation has triggered the resignation of senior executives in Kenya’s energy sector amid allegations of fuel stock data manipulation and the procurement of an emergency cargo at inflated price
The affected officials include Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority Director-General Daniel Kiptoo, Kenya Pipeline Company Managing Director Joe Sang, and Petroleum Principal Secretary Mohamed Liban.
According to Reuters, the Kenyan government said the manipulated data was used to justify the emergency importation of fuel, despite standing contracts ​with Saudi Aramco Trading Fujairah, Abu Dhabi's ADNOC Global ​Trading Ltd, and Emirates National Oil Company Singapore Ltd., all of which ‌are ⁠meeting their contractual obligations.
Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary Opiyo Wandayi confirmed that it was findings from this first shipment that led authorities to take decisive action against a second cargo headed for Mombasa.
The decision comes amid growing concerns about malpractice within the sector and fears of supply disruptions tied to tensions in the Middle East.
Speaking in Narok, President William Ruto struck a defiant tone, linking the crisis to entrenched cartels and external pressures tied to instability in the Middle East.
He added that his administration would dismantle entrenched networks in the oil sector just as it has done in the coffee and tea industries since taking office.
Despite the disruptions, the government has moved to calm fears of fuel shortages. Wandayi emphasized that petroleum stocks remain sufficient to meet current demand and that the country’s supply framework remains intact.
The ministry has also launched an internal review of petroleum management systems to strengthen transparency and protect supply chain integrity, warning that there will be “no tolerance for cartels, profiteers, or extortionists” exploiting the crisis.
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Swiss Ice Hockey coach Patrick Fischer has admitted he used a certificate falsely claiming he had been vaccinated against COVID-19 to get around China’s travel restrictions for the 2022 Winter Olympics, where he led his nation
In a statement, Fischer, who remains in charge of the Swiss team, said he made a “serious mistake in this matter” by travelling to Beijing with the men’s team using false paperwork
“I’m very sorry if I’ve disappointed people with this situation,” Fischer said. “I was in an extraordinary personal crisis because I didn’t want to be vaccinated. At the same time I certainly didn’t want to let my team down at the Olympic Games.
Swiss public broadcaster SRF said it confronted Fischer with documents showing he was fined nearly 39,000 Swiss francs ($50,000) by local authorities in 2023 for document forgery after buying the certificate on social media. SRF said he went public with his admission shortly after
Switzerland hosts the World Championship next month. Fischer was already due to step down after that, and the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation said it considers the matter closed.
Fischer is one of Switzerland’s most successful hockey coaches ever. He has been in the post since 2015 and took the team to three Olympics, as well as winning three silver medals at the World Championship
His team reached the quarterfinals at the 2022 Olympics, where COVID-19 testing was a requirement, and the National Hockey League stayed away because of the pandemic.
In advance of the 2022 Olympics, China had some of the strictest COVID-19 rules in the world. It insisted any athletes heading to the games had to either be vaccinated against COVID-19 or sit out a three-week quarantine in a hotel, as Swiss snowboarder Patrizia Kummer did
The International Olympic Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment
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