The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Identity Layer for AI Agents Is Finally Being Built (7/11/2026)

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Pace Layers: What Urban Planning Knows About Your Software Boundaries

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The Identity Layer for AI Agents Is Finally Being Built,

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The Identity Layer for AI Agents Is Finally Being Built

By @garagon [ 6 Min read ] The identity layer for AI agents is finally being built. What MCP, A2A and new research delivered since March, and whats still missing. Read More.

Pace Layers: What Urban Planning Knows About Your Software Boundaries

By @ashevtsov [ 11 Min read ] How pace layers, an idea from urban planning, apply to software architecture boundaries: sort by rate of change and point dependencies at the slow layer.

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