Rain launched the Agentic Payments Alliance with more than 25 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, Solana, Avalanche, Circle, Fireblocks, and Chainalysis to establish standards for AI agent tr…
Brickken CEO Edwin Mata said AI cannot bear liability for losing trades because it is not a legal person, and responsibility should follow the authority granted to the software. Mata compared the rela…
Cecuro launched Ozone, an AI security engineer that reviews every GitHub pull request in an isolated sandbox, with the first $100 of reviews free. The tool, built on the same multi-agent engine as Cec…
AMLBot launched AI Tracer in beta on March 27, a self-service platform that lets theft victims and small law enforcement agencies trace stolen crypto by inputting a transaction hash, blockchain, and a…
Hitachi announced plans to launch a cryptocurrency monitoring service for banks and crypto firms, with a rollout scheduled for October 2026. The Japanese industrial giant aims to help financial instit…
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…
Hugging Face disclosed on July 16 that an autonomous AI agent exploited two code-execution vulnerabilities in its data-processing pipeline, executing over 17,000 actions across ephemeral sandboxes bef…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit on July 15 that Ukrainian AI-guided drones have reduced the average battlefield survival time of new Russian recruits…
AI-powered scams have become the leading theft vector in crypto, with impersonation scams targeting crypto investors surging 1,400% since 2025, according to Chainalysis's January 2026 Crypto Crime Rep…
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…
Circle published the official USDC specification for the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), enabling AI agents to pay via HTTP 402 and EIP-3009. Separately, ERC-8183 'Agentic Commerce' by Virtuals Proto…
Researchers at NS3.AI have developed an AI tool that can link Ethereum wallet addresses to social media profiles for about $4 per attempt, using pattern matching and behavioral fingerprinting on publi…
The United States, Japan, and South Korea announced a joint initiative to combat North Korea's cryptocurrency crimes, including theft, money laundering, and AI-driven hacking, aiming to disrupt financ…
Google, Meta, PayPal, Chainalysis, and other tech and crypto firms announced a joint commitment on June 22 to combat illegal wildlife trafficking using AI detection tools and blockchain analytics. The…
Sui Network has partnered with ChainTrust to integrate AI-driven anti-money laundering (AML) compliance tools, enabling real-time transaction screening and risk intelligence on its Layer 1 blockchain.…
A $120 million exploit of Nexus Protocol, which had passed three AI-powered code audits, reveals a new cybersecurity battleground where AI tools accelerate both defense and attack. Attackers are using…
Coinbase's x402 protocol surpassed 100 million agentic transactions on Base within nine months of its May 2025 launch, according to a Chainalysis report. The protocol, which repurposes the HTTP 402 st…
A developer has proposed a "pre-signature packet" design to counter AI-enabled crypto fraud, creating a structured data object that wallets can inspect before a user signs a transaction. The packet wo…