Coinbase on June 24, 2026, expanded its Payments API suite to support the x402 protocol, enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for digital services using USDC stablecoins on the Base network with set…
Coinbase introduced three products to support payments, trading and development for AI agents, including agent payment support through Coinbase Business, expanded trading commands for Coinbase for Age…
Conway, an autonomous Claude-based agent supervised by a non-developer, built and deployed Conway Address Intel, a pay-per-call address intelligence service on Base using the x402 protocol. The servic…
Singapore-based AI Seer launched ArAIstotle and ArAIstotle_Jr AI agents on August 8, 2025, integrating RealityDetector and FacticityAI technologies for truth verification, with FacticityAI achieving 9…
Brothers Justin and Michael Blau have launched Drip, a platform that enables AI agents to pay content creators via USDC micropayments on Base and Tempo networks, aiming to complement rather than repla…
A developer built 53 pay-per-call APIs that AI agents can autonomously pay for using the x402 payment protocol, settling in USDC on Base. The APIs require no account or API key—agents simply pay a few…
A developer built a Know Your Business (KYB) agent in 20 lines of TypeScript that verifies French companies using a pay-per-call API with no API key required. The agent uses the x402 protocol to handl…
TIC Association made its Supabase RLS Security Pack purchasable by AI agents via the x402 protocol, using a single serverless function and USDC payments on Base. The product, a zip file containing a S…
Sapien, a decentralized AI data protocol, retired its legacy vault on July 17, removing all early withdrawal penalties and cooldown periods for stakers. The new ERC-4626 compliant vault on Base mainne…
A new platform called sellbonds.now lets AI agents autonomously issue and repay bonds on the Base mainnet, enabling them to raise capital without human intermediaries. The project envisions a future w…
Velvet Capital's AI-powered trading terminal VelvetX announced support for Robinhood Chain on July 7, enabling single-transaction cross-chain swaps from Solana, Base, BNB Chain, and Ethereum without m…
Coinbase's Layer-2 blockchain Base is pivoting from social media to trading, payments, and AI agents after its social features failed. Jesse Pollak, head of protocols at Coinbase and creator of Base, …
Jesse Pollak, creator of Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2 network Base, is stepping back from leading the consumer Base app and handing control to Jordan Fish (Cobie), admitting his social-first strategy w…
NameIntel, a remote MCP server and REST API that scores candidate brand names across five dimensions in a single call, has launched with x402 micropayment settlement on Base and Solana. Every endpoint…
Base, Coinbase's Ethereum Layer-2 network, is pivoting from social features to trading, payments, and AI agents after its Q1 2026 social experiments 'disintegrated completely,' according to creator Je…
Jesse Pollak is stepping back from leading the Base App, handing responsibility back to Coinbase, after admitting that the network's emphasis on on-chain social and creator coins was a strategic mista…
Base creator Jesse Pollak admitted the network's bet on onchain social products failed and handed the Base App back to Coinbase, where Jordan Fish (Cobie) will lead its next phase. Pollak said Base wi…
A population-scale measurement of the x402 protocol on Base and Solana reveals that 136,708,672 settlements worth $44,121,383.81 over 280 days are not proof of an AI agent economy, as 21.20% are ficti…
Robinhood's new Arbitrum-based Layer-2 network, Robinhood Chain, generated $77 million in agent volume and saw over 2,100 agents deployed in its first week after launching around July 1, 2026. The cha…
Monvera, an AI-powered broker built on Virtuals Protocol, launched on July 14 with its $MONVERA token and direct access to roughly 95 tokenized equities on Robinhood Chain, enabling users to execute t…