AEON, a settlement layer for the agentic economy, has integrated Bangladesh's mobile financial services bKash and Nagad, allowing users to pay merchants with crypto while AEON converts and settles pay…
AEON, a startup that raised an $8M pre-seed round led by YZi Labs in May, has become one of Coinbase's early x402 ecosystem partners and shipped an x402 Facilitator and SDK on BNB Chain. The partnersh…
OKX Ventures data shows x402 transaction volume in the agent economy fell 92% from its November 2025 peak to $1.19M per month, with average transaction size dropping to $0.52. Two new payment rails la…
BMW Group has launched a production pilot deploying humanoid robots at its Plant Leipzig facility, using the AEON platform developed by Hexagon Robotics. The 1.65-meter-tall, 60-kilogram robots can ca…
A single term, "settlement," now describes at least four distinct infrastructure layers for the agent economy, each with different trust assumptions and failure modes. AEON raised an $8M pre-seed to o…
Two competing settlement layers for the agent economy have emerged, each answering a different version of the same question. OKX Agent Payments Protocol (APP) operates as a custodial venue layer, offe…