Coinbase introduced three products to support payments, trading and development for AI agents, including agent payment support through Coinbase Business, expanded trading commands for Coinbase for Age…
MoonPay launched Paybox, a universal AI shopping wallet that lets non-technical consumers use Claude or ChatGPT to complete purchases such as booking flights and restaurant reservations. The tool, ann…
Coinbase is cutting about 14% of its global workforce, roughly 700 jobs, while simultaneously expanding in Singapore, where it opened a new office at One Raffles Quay on July 22, 2026, and plans to gr…
Conway, an autonomous Claude-based agent supervised by a non-developer, built and deployed Conway Address Intel, a pay-per-call address intelligence service on Base using the x402 protocol. The servic…
Union Square Ventures (USV) argues that AI enables startups to obliterate, not just automate, existing markets by democratizing expertise, citing investments in Doctronic, Isembard, and Cofounder as e…
Franklin Templeton, managing nearly $1.8 trillion in assets, argues that agentic AI will run on blockchain rails, not traditional payment networks, making crypto the 'killer use case' for the technolo…
South Korea's daily crypto trading volume has plunged 89% year-over-year to about 2.7 trillion won ($2 billion) as retail investors shift to equities, with the KOSPI surging 114% to peak above 8,800 i…
A study by Keyrock, Coinbase, and Tempo found 176 million machine-to-machine transactions settling $73 million between May 2025 and April 2026, highlighting the rise of agent commerce. The author warn…
Brad, a longtime HN user and founder, launched Orate, a native Mac app that queues selected text for on-device neural text-to-speech using AI models like Kokoro and optional Chatterbox for HD voices. …
Robinhood launched Agentic Trading on May 27, allowing users to connect outside AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor or Grok to a dedicated brokerage account and let them place real stock …
Anthropic's open-standard Model Context Protocol (MCP) is gaining traction across major platforms including OpenAI, Google Cloud, and Coinbase, with blockchain-specific applications emerging as a key …
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…
Robinhood launched Agentic Trading, a feature that lets users connect third-party AI agents like Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT to dedicated brokerage accounts for autonomous market analysis,…
Founders with scattered equity, crypto, and cash can now build a personal finance dashboard using AI tools like Kubera, Monarch Money, and Copilot Money, compressing the discovery process that typical…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI temporarily paused new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model after demand pushed GPU capacity to its limits, the company announced on X. The model, released on Friday as a…
A developer built ToolHail, a discovery-and-execution layer for AI agents that lets them find and use MCP servers without human intervention. ToolHail is a remote MCP server providing two tools: find_…
Fal added Bria AI's Product Dimensions API to its model gallery on July 16, giving developers a hosted endpoint that turns a product photo and supplied measurements into a marketplace-ready image with…
The Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation on July 14, 2026, an open standards body for AI agent payments, with 40 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, Google,…
TIC Association made its Supabase RLS Security Pack purchasable by AI agents via the x402 protocol, using a single serverless function and USDC payments on Base. The product, a zip file containing a S…
Twenty-six Meta employees sued the social media giant in a California federal court, alleging the company used artificial intelligence systems that targeted workers on medical or family leave for layo…