Coinbase has introduced x402, an open, HTTP-native payment standard that enables AI agents and other autonomous software to pay for APIs automatically using stablecoins like USDC. Built on the HTTP 40…
Startup B3IQ, founded by former Coinbase employees Daryl Xu, Viktoriya Hying, and Sean Geng, is supplying rent-to-own GPU machines to privacy-conscious university researchers, with a frontier-level Nv…
Bitcoin Policy Institute and more than 40 digital-asset organizations, including Block, Coinbase, Strategy, MARA, Galaxy, BitGo, Brink, OpenSats, Chaincode Labs, Spiral, Trezor, Unchained, Btrust, and…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will hold the inaugural meeting of its Innovation Advisory Committee on August 20 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT, a virtual session addressing crypto assets, …
Coinbase's Layer 2 network Base is pivoting away from social apps to focus on trading, payments, and AI agents after creator Jesse Pollak admitted his social strategy 'disintegrated completely.' Polla…
Databricks reports that large enterprises can cut AI coding costs by up to 90 percent by using open models, efficient routing, and other techniques, based on its internal data and conversations with S…
MetaMask launched Agent Wallet on Thursday, a self-custodial wallet that lets AI agents trade crypto autonomously within user-set limits, including spending caps, protocol allowlists, and risk setting…
Databricks reports that agentic coding tools have improved velocity metrics and driven order-of-magnitude gains in some teams, but warns that exponentially growing costs are unsustainable and could ov…
Shopify Inc. reported Q2 2026 revenue of $3.58 billion, beating consensus estimates of $3.45 billion, and projected Q3 revenue growth in the low-thirties percentage range year-over-year, compared to a…
Daily x402 settlements on Algorand surged from 1,300 to 40,600 in five days, a 30x increase driven by the Global x402 Challenge, which offers a $100K USD and 500K ALGO prize pool. The network has proc…
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…
Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Wallets on Tuesday, giving AI agents on its network a stablecoin balance and a human-readable cloudflare.pay handle for paying for APIs, content, and MCP tools. The prod…
Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Wallets on August 4, enabling AI agents to hold and spend money autonomously via the x402 protocol, with handle reservations now open and full funding features coming in…
Glassnode has launched a beta Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI agents autonomously discover, query, and purchase its premium on-chain analytics using Coinbase wallets and USDC payments…
Cloudflare launched cloudflare.id, a persistent identity tool and wallet that lets AI agents verify their identity and make payments, with transactions settling in USDC on Coinbase's Base layer-2 bloc…
Arena CEO Anastasios Angelopoulos said his AI-model evaluation company has interviewed job applicants who turned out to be AI-generated, not real people, and that the company is considering requiring …
Crypto firms are still seeking access to frontier AI models for security, but only a select few have it, creating a security divide. Coinbase secured access to Anthropic's restricted Mythos model in J…
AI consultants are advising companies to treat expensive frontier models like costly consultants, using them for strategic planning while delegating routine tasks to cheaper models, as a cost-saving m…
Coinbase engineers shared lessons from a year of rebuilding their interview process for the AI era, emphasizing the need to evaluate candidates' ability to work with AI tools and adapt to rapidly chan…
The crypto industry, which spent more than any other to back Donald Trump's campaign, received none of its top legislative priorities, including the CLARITY Act and a strategic Bitcoin reserve, while …