Circle presented its Agent Stack toolkit at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco from June 29 to July 2, demonstrating tools that enable autonomous AI agents to hold assets and settle payment…
Coinbase launched an AI agent that can execute spot and derivatives crypto trades and pay for premium research data via the x402 protocol on behalf of users. The agent integrates with Coinbase account…
A single term, "settlement," now describes at least four distinct infrastructure layers for the agent economy, each with different trust assumptions and failure modes. AEON raised an $8M pre-seed to o…
Bitcoin fell to a four-month low of $61,311 before recovering to roughly $62,580, driven by geopolitical tensions, ETF outflows, and MicroStrategy’s first Bitcoin sale in years. The decline triggered …
Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, reported that 90% of its workforce now uses AI coding tools and desktop applications weekly, up from 85% in May. The firm has deployed over 900 internal…
Circle launched Arc, an enterprise-grade Layer-1 blockchain designed to power machine-speed transactions for AI agents, with sub-second finality and transaction fees as low as $0.000001. The USDC issu…
Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, raised $222 million in a private presale of its native ARC token for its purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain, Arc, achieving a $3 billion fully diluted val…