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AEON, a startup that raised an $8M pre-seed round led by YZi Labs in May, has become one of Coinbase's early x402 ecosystem partners and shipped an x402 Facilitator and SDK on BNB Chain. The partnersh…

A second team, KaleidoSwap, has deployed a live AI agent called KaleidoAgent that executes atomic HTLC swaps on Bitcoin Layer 2, demonstrating non-custodial, agent-driven trading without a third-party…

OKX Ventures data shows x402 transaction volume in the agent economy fell 92% from its November 2025 peak to $1.19M per month, with average transaction size dropping to $0.52. Two new payment rails la…