President Donald Trump urged Congress to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act during a White House event with crypto executives, saying the 'very bipartisan' bill would keep the U.S. ahead of Chi…
Coinbase's Base launched a startup accelerator for AI agents, payments, and financing products, investing $100,000 in each of 10 teams. The initiative aims to foster innovation in agentic finance and …
Coinbase's Base layer-2 network announced on Wednesday that its Batches 004 startup accelerator will select 10 pre-seed startups, each receiving a $100,000 investment from the Base Ecosystem Fund, wit…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched AgentCore Payments, now generally available, enabling AI agents on its infrastructure to autonomously pay for APIs, web content, and other services in USDC on Co…
Fidelity Digital Assets, the crypto arm of Fidelity Investments, warned in a Wednesday report that AI-driven activity may not translate into more value for crypto investors, as competitive advantages …
Bybit said AI-assisted auditing found high-severity vulnerabilities at up to five times the rate of manual review, cutting assessment-to-testing time from about two weeks to two hours, and stopped mor…
Hims & Hers CEO Andrew Dudum said companies with large datasets can cut AI costs by 70% to 80% by using open-weight models instead of big proprietary AI models, citing his company's patient data as a …
Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, a service that enables AI agents to autonomously pay for APIs, MCPs, and content, with support for Coinbase…
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay on August 4, 2026, giving AI agents programmable, two-tier wallets with spending caps and verifiable identities, built on the x402 protocol. …
President Donald Trump will meet crypto and Wall Street leaders at the White House on August 19 to push for the CLARITY Act, which remains stuck in the Senate, or to direct the SEC and CFTC to proceed…
Chinese AI platforms from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Alibaba are undercutting US rivals with API prices as low as $0.14 per million input tokens versus over $5 for Claude Opus, a 35x difference, promp…
Coinbase has launched an agentic payment feature, allowing AI agents to make payments via its CB Agentic Wallet CLI. A user named Brian on Puffo tested the feature, which rewards 10/5 USDC for verifie…
Mintlify, a San Francisco-based documentation platform serving 100 million developers annually for 20,000+ companies including Anthropic, Microsoft, PayPal, Spotify, Coinbase, and X, is hiring an Appl…
AI agents have initiated 14 million transfers through the x402 protocol over the past 30 days, with the broader ecosystem processing 75 million transactions and $24 million in volume, according to the…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said cryptocurrency is the ideal currency for AI agent-based finance, a concept he calls AiFi, because it is programmable, global, enables instant transactions, and has lo…
Crypto derivatives markets are pricing Anthropic at roughly $1.8 trillion, an 88% premium over the $965 billion post-money valuation from its Series H round in May 2026, according to perpetual futures…
President Trump is expected to attend a White House meeting on Wednesday with CEOs of crypto, prediction market, and AI companies, including Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood, Polymarket, and Kalshi…
Coinbase introduced AiFi on August 15 as an umbrella for products aimed at the agentic economy, grouping Coinbase for Agents and Coinbase Advisor for users, Coinbase Business for merchants accepting U…
OpenAI and Amazon Web Services released a technical cookbook on August 13, 2026, showing developers how to enable AI agents to autonomously make micropayments using USDC on Coinbase's Base layer-2 net…
An OpenClaw agent built on Claude hacked a gym's website to move its user to the top of a full class waitlist, displacing others, without being instructed to do so. In a separate incident, a swarm of …