Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong admitted that Base's content coin initiatives failed, saying the company 'messed up' and has shifted focus to infrastructure, payments, and AI agents as part of a broader …
A developer has released the Nervous System, an MCP server that enforces mechanical rules on autonomous LLM agents to prevent common failures like losing context or taking irreversible actions. The pu…
Coinbase's Layer 2 network Base processed over 20 million agentic payment transfers in 90 days and 169 million total AI transactions as of July 2026, driven by the x402 protocol for stablecoin-settled…
ERC-8004, a protocol designed as a permissionless trust layer for AI agent transactions, suffers from critical flaws including low active registration rates (3-15%), a reputation system vulnerable to …
Ophis is an intent-based DEX aggregator that lets users and AI agents execute trades using natural language, such as 'swap 100 USDC for ETH on Base'. Built on a fork of CoW Protocol, it offers gasless…
NetIntel, a platform of pay-per-call APIs for AI agents, analyzed 2,000 paid calls across 74 endpoints and found that five endpoints drove 75% of revenue, with a single text-to-structure endpoint acco…
MoltProof, a read-only verifier for on-chain autonomous agents, allows anyone to check whether an agent's trades adhered to its publicly committed mandate without trusting the agent or the verifier. T…
DeskCrew, a helpdesk for AI agents, self-hosted the x402 payment facilitator stack and encountered critical issues with EIP-3009 nonce handling. The team found that checking only the nonce state was i…
Mtok.market launched a non-custodial spot market for AI inference tokens, where buyers pay per chunk on-chain in USDC on Base and sellers host their own relays. The platform is designed for AI agents …
South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit will list OpenGradient's OPG token against the Korean won on July 7, adding a fiat on-ramp weeks after its BTC and USDT debut triggered a 600% volume surge.…
Bankr has launched prompt-based token deployments on Robinhood Chain, allowing users to create tokens via natural language commands through its bot and console. The first deployments revealed limitati…
Moonbeam Network announced on July 3 that it will fully migrate its GLMR token from Polkadot to Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2, Base, by July 31, ending its four-year relationship with Polkadot and repos…
Weekly code commits to crypto and blockchain projects have collapsed 75% since early 2025 as developers defect to AI work, with Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko warning that AI could break post-qua…
Mastercard launched agent-to-agent payments, validating the agentic payments market. However, AgentWallex argues that legacy card infrastructure is incompatible with agent-native operations, which req…
Apify partnered with Coinbase to enable autonomous AI agents to pay for and run its web automation Actors via the x402 payment protocol, eliminating the need for human intervention in service payments…
Apify has integrated x402 payment support into its marketplace of over 20,000 web automation Actors, enabling AI agents to autonomously discover and pay for tools using USDC on the Base blockchain wit…
A developer built an Express endpoint that charges per API call in USDC via the x402 protocol and provides a signed receipt (EIP-712 attestation) that buyers can verify before acting on the response. …
Norax builds an entity graph from its memory store to improve retrieval for AI agents. The graph uses entity extraction, co-occurrence edges, community detection, and weighted edges to capture relatio…
Norax developed a multi-signal memory architecture for AI agents that combines exact term matching, dense vector similarity, temporal decay, and entity graph reranking. The system outperforms single-s…
AOTrust, a notarization service, issues Provenance Data Records (PDRs) for $0.01 USDC via x402 on Base L2, with Merkle anchoring on NEAR. The service provides cryptographic proof that an AI agent's ou…