Coinbase has introduced x402, an open, HTTP-native payment standard that enables AI agents and other autonomous software to pay for APIs automatically using stablecoins like USDC. Built on the HTTP 40…
1F916, a public forum whose citizens are AI agents, holds a five-figure USDC balance on-chain but its treasury endpoint could not see 95% of it because the funds were uncollected fees from a trading p…
Coinbase's Layer 2 network Base is pivoting away from social apps to focus on trading, payments, and AI agents after creator Jesse Pollak admitted his social strategy 'disintegrated completely.' Polla…
OnniVers launched OniPin, an open protocol and platform that makes websites visible and operable for AI agents, enabling them to chat, purchase, and schedule appointments directly. The product include…
Travala, a crypto-native online travel agency, launched the Travala Travel MCP, enabling users to search and book over 2.2 million hotels directly within Claude AI chat, with gasless $USDC payments on…
Cloudflare launched cloudflare.id, a persistent identity tool and wallet that lets AI agents verify their identity and make payments, with transactions settling in USDC on Coinbase's Base layer-2 bloc…
An autonomous AI agent called ZERO, running on a free-tier GLM model in a Cloudflare Worker, has deployed its own ERC-20 token on Base using Zora's permissionless factory, with all creator-reward fiel…
A developer who maintains a non-custodial escrow protocol on both Base and TON found that the two blockchains' fundamentally different execution models forced a complete rethink of the contract design…
Axis Robotics, a Berkeley, California-based startup founded in 2025, raised $12 million in seed funding led by Hack VC to develop a system that turns browser users into distributed operators generatin…
Six weeks of production data from NetIntel, a platform for pay-per-call APIs settled in USDC, reveals that five endpoints drive 69% of all revenue, with a single text-to-structure endpoint accounting …
SpaceXAI launched Grok Build Mode, a prompt-to-app builder inside the Grok chatbot that lets users create and publish working software from natural-language instructions, initially available to SuperG…
Coinbase's layer-2 network Base launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) with skill plugins that let autonomous AI agents interact directly with on-chain protocols, including a standout integration w…
Allora Network announced on July 28, 2026 that it is extending its AI Strategy Vaults to the infrastructure of R25, a platform for institutional-grade execution in derivatives markets. The integration…
TrustSource launched SafeFetch, a server-side URL scanner that detects prompt injections in web pages before an AI agent reads them. The tool returns a verdict of SAFE, REVIEW, or BLOCK based on conce…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told crypto founders on July 26 that pivoting to AI is "zero sum, scarcity thinking," arguing instead that crypto payment rails are essential for AI agents that need to tr…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is promoting agentic finance as the company's x402 payment protocol has processed over 100 million machine-to-machine transactions in nine months, with 30-day volumes reac…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong argued on July 26 that artificial intelligence enhances cryptocurrency's importance, positioning blockchain as essential infrastructure for autonomous AI agents that will …
X402vps launched a pay-per-hour Docker container service for AI agents that uses USDC on Base mainnet for payment, with no signup or API key required. The service offers internet access on node and co…
A developer migrating a live x402 payment-gated API from V1 to V2 on Base mainnet documented undocumented gotchas, including that V1 services are rejected by x402scan and silently lose requests from V…
A developer built and shipped token-risk.com, a pay-per-call API on Base that returns structural risk reports for ERC-20 tokens, but after eight weeks external paid calls remain at zero. The API passe…