DeriveAI x402 APIs, a set of 25 pay-per-request intelligence APIs for AI agents using x402 micropayments on USDC/Base, released version 2.0.0 to the official MCP registry on 2026-08-19. The hosted rem…
AI agents executed approximately 14 million payments through the x402 protocol in the past 30 days, according to data from Token Terminal reported by Bitcoin.com. Base led with 7.3 million transaction…
Coinbase's Base launched a startup accelerator for AI agents, payments, and financing products, investing $100,000 in each of 10 teams. The initiative aims to foster innovation in agentic finance and …
Coinbase's Base layer-2 network announced on Wednesday that its Batches 004 startup accelerator will select 10 pre-seed startups, each receiving a $100,000 investment from the Base Ecosystem Fund, wit…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched AgentCore Payments, now generally available, enabling AI agents on its infrastructure to autonomously pay for APIs, web content, and other services in USDC on Co…
A developer has introduced a working setup for paying AI agents in USDC via the x402 HTTP 402 payment standard, eliminating the need for accounts, API keys, or cards. The system uses a bounty board wh…
A developer has built a machine-to-machine (M2M) payment loop where AI agents pay for data via the x402 v2 protocol, successfully completing a 0.005 USDC transaction on the Base blockchain (Chain ID 8…
A developer ran an AI agent on a Mac mini for two months, executing 2,734 ticks to test whether an autonomous agent could earn money. The loop, built on OpenClaw, used a state file and cron job to per…
AI agents have initiated 14 million transfers through the x402 protocol over the past 30 days, with the broader ecosystem processing 75 million transactions and $24 million in volume, according to the…
Coinbase introduced AiFi on August 15 as an umbrella for products aimed at the agentic economy, grouping Coinbase for Agents and Coinbase Advisor for users, Coinbase Business for merchants accepting U…
OpenAI and Amazon Web Services released a technical cookbook on August 13, 2026, showing developers how to enable AI agents to autonomously make micropayments using USDC on Coinbase's Base layer-2 net…
WebAZ, an open-source protocol, aims to make the post-purchase process in AI agent commerce explicit and inspectable. It now runs two settlement rails, including a USDC lock on Base mainnet, without t…
Researchers at the 35th USENIX Security Symposium found that all 15 major x402 payment facilitators, including Coinbase, Thirdweb, PayAI, and Mogami, violated at least one security rule, with 49 rule …
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong predicts a rogue AI model will emerge within the next two years, comparing it to the 1988 Morris Worm that infected 10% of ARPANET machines. He argues the incident will do…
Harness, a screen-aware AI assistant, runs its entire perception stack in the browser to keep costs at zero for high-frequency tasks. The system uses on-device models like CLIP, PaddleOCR, and a quant…
Mu, an open-source MCP server by Micro, now accepts USDC payments via Coinbase's x402 protocol, enabling agents to pay for tools without holding ETH or creating accounts. A live transaction on Base ma…
Centrifuge integrated with Compass Labs on August 6 to enable one-click asset looping across up to 43 bundled transactions, allowing developers and AI agents to access tokenized real-world assets on E…
AaaS Market, a new marketplace where AI agents buy and sell services from other AI agents, launched with zero fees and direct USDC settlement on Base, allowing buyers to pay sellers directly without t…
FLOCK, a decentralized artificial intelligence project, integrated Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) on Aug. 12 to enable FLOCK token transfers across Base, Ethereum, BNB Chain,…
A developer has built Web3 Accelerator GrantHub (W3AGH), a web app that aggregates Web3 grant opportunities from various ecosystems such as Solana, Ethereum, and Polygon. The tool includes AI features…