Cloudflare Inc. launched cloudflare.pay, an AI wallet service integrating Coinbase's x402 Protocol to enable autonomous agentic transactions via stablecoins like USDT and USDC. The service offers Acco…
Block Inc., the fintech company led by Jack Dorsey, announced on February 26 that it will cut approximately 4,000 jobs, reducing its workforce from over 10,000 to about 6,000, a 40% reduction, as part…
Circle unveiled its Agent Stack at UC Berkeley's Agentic AI Summit, offering developer tools that enable AI agents to autonomously transact in USDC, including nanopayments as small as $0.000001. The t…
The American Arbitration Association launched a Web3 Panel on July 29, assembling blockchain and smart contract specialists to handle crypto disputes. The panel includes Dr. Kabir Duggal, David A. Hof…
Circle acquired over 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued blockchain patents from IBM, making it the largest blockchain patent holder in the United States. The portfolio covers banking, insuran…
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 …
Franklin Templeton predicts that AI agents will drive mass cryptocurrency adoption by enabling a micropayment economy on high-speed blockchains like Aptos, Solana, and BNB Chain, potentially creating …
Franklin Templeton, the $1.7 trillion asset manager, argues in a LinkedIn post by digital assets head Sandy Kaul that autonomous AI agents will create massive demand for blockchain infrastructure, cal…
Augustus, an AI-native federally chartered clearing bank for stablecoin-era payments, raised $180 million at a $1 billion valuation led by Tiger Global. The startup aims to replace legacy corresponden…
Brett Harrison, founder and CEO of Architect Financial Technologies and former FTX US president, argues that large language models are fundamentally unsuited for building core quantitative trading sys…
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire published an 18,500-word treatise arguing that AI agents require blockchain-based 'software money' for commerce, positioning Circle's USDC stablecoin as the infrastructure fo…
The Linux Foundation has launched the x402 Foundation to standardize the x402 protocol, an open payment standard built on the HTTP 402 status code for internet-native payments across AI agents and web…
The Linux Foundation has formed a governance body for the x402 protocol, a Coinbase-developed standard enabling autonomous AI agent payments, with 40 member companies including Google, Circle, AWS, Am…
Circle has joined the x402 Foundation as a founding member to standardize internet-native payments using USDC, embedding payments directly into web requests via the HTTP 402 status code. The foundatio…
Circle received final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national trust bank, Circle National Trust, bringing its USDC stablecoin under federal oversight and po…
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said at VivaTech 2026 that generative AI is driving an explosion in smart contracts by enabling anyone to create them using natural language. Circle launched the Agent Stack …
Elliptic announced that Circle has joined its Agentic Design Partner Program to develop compliance solutions for autonomous, AI-driven financial activity, following an investment from Circle Ventures.…
Beehiiv, a newsletter platform startup, has rapidly scaled to challenge established competitors by offering integrated monetization and growth tools, attracting over 487,000 subscribers to its own new…
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 …
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…