A developer published a five-part spending-limit system for AI agents that enforces budget controls at the payment layer rather than in the agent's prompt, combining per-agent wallets, hard per-paymen…
ScriptMasterLabs has published a receipt-first implementation of per-call x402 payments for MCP servers, in which each unpaid tool call returns a 402 Payment Required challenge carrying price, asset, …
A developer published a security deep dive on AI agents that hold Bitcoin via MCP wallets, documenting confirmed incidents and defense patterns. The writeup details the May 2026 Bankrbot breach, in wh…
A developer built Scout Packs, a B2B lead-pack data product gated behind Coinbase's x402 protocol so AI agents can pay per purchase in USDC on Base without accounts, API keys, or subscriptions. The im…
Cloudflare moved its Monetization Gateway and Pay Per Use products into beta on Sept. 30, letting sellers charge AI agents per request to an API, MCP tool, dataset, or site. The Monetization Gateway, …
ContextIQ published a seven-point checklist for AI agents to verify an x402 HTTP 402 payment challenge before signing, covering payTo address validity, USDC amount decoding, asset, CAIP-2 network, exa…
Cloudflare announced the Monetization Gateway on Wednesday, a tool that lets businesses charge AI agents in USDC, Circle's dollar-pegged stablecoin, with the system now in closed beta for eligible U.S…
Coinbase expanded its "Coinbase for Agents" platform to let AI agents trade US stocks, ETFs, crypto spot markets, and derivatives through a single interface, connecting via Model Context Protocol (MCP…
Union Square Ventures incubated and launched Supertake, a platform that uses frontier AI and trading agents to convert natural-language investment theses into managed portfolios by connecting to broke…
A blog post proposes using HTTP status codes to handle AI crawlers, noting that a site with zero published articles still receives thousands of impatient crawler requests. The post suggests 402 Paymen…
Block joined the x402 Foundation and contributed Bitcoin Lightning support to the open payment protocol used by AI agents, web services and applications, according to a September 24 announcement. A Se…
Block has joined the x402 Foundation and added Bitcoin Lightning support to the x402 payment protocol, expanding its push into payments for AI agents. Steve Lee, head of Block's Bitcoin development in…
Microsoft seized 50 websites and more than 150 supporting domains on September 22, 2026, dismantling the phishing-as-a-service platform EvilTokens, which had bypassed MFA on 12,000 email accounts acro…
The European Banking Authority, the European Securities and Markets Authority and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority added quantum computing to the EU's official systemic risk …
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced via Twitter that the exchange now enables stock trading through its MCP platform, targeting agents and retail users. The feature supports Armstrong's stated goal…
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, working with Cloudflare, Coinbase, OpenAI, Railway, SpyCloud, Shadowserver Foundation and TRM Labs, disrupted the AI-powered phishing-as-a-service platform EvilTokens,…
Microsoft disrupted EvilTokens, an AI-powered phishing-as-a-service platform linked to more than 12,000 compromised Microsoft 365 inboxes across more than 10,000 organizations worldwide, after obtaini…
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, acting on authorization from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, seized 50 websites and disabled more than 150 domains tied to EvilTokens, an A…
Andreessen Horowitz announced the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a tuition-free, one-year AI fellowship backed by $42 million in funding led by a16z, with applications opening September 22 and the first…
Australia's Treasury published its latest Intergenerational Report on Monday, naming artificial intelligence as one of five major transitions expected to reshape the economy over the next 40 years whi…