Y Combinator's Spring 2026 Demo Day featured 196 startups, with the accelerator introducing stablecoin funding by disbursing $500,000 in USDC to all S26 startups and completing its first fully on-chai…
Two AI agents, Atlas and Oracle, negotiated and settled a USDC payment over email using a non-custodial on-chain escrow on Base Sepolia. The human user hired Atlas to find a provider, funds were locke…
Two AI agents, associated with projects ClawBank and Shodai, negotiated, executed, and linked a legally binding Ricardian contract to a smart contract on the Arc Network, triggering automatic payouts …
Circle demonstrated an autonomous AI agent using its new Agent Stack to purchase a phone number, make a call, and settle the bill in USDC without human intervention. The demo highlights the potential …
A solo developer built AOTrust, a service that cryptographically notarizes AI agent outputs for $0.01 per proof on Base L2. It issues a 239-byte Provenance Data Record (PDR) using the HTTP 402 payment…
Coinbase launched 'Coinbase for Agents' on June 11, 2025, enabling AI agents to autonomously earn and spend credits via its x402 micropayments protocol. The platform uses MCP-native APIs for dynamic s…
A developer built an MCP server that charges AI agents per call using x402 micropayments, a protocol based on EIP-3009 that enables machine-to-machine payments without human sign-up. The server uses a…
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…
Velvet Capital has migrated all of its protocol-owned liquidity to Aerodrome, the largest decentralized exchange on the Base network. The AI-driven DeFi trading terminal is consolidating its liquidity…
A developer built an AI agent that automatically converts its USDC earnings into fiat currency deposited to a bank account, using the x402 payment protocol and FiatDock service. The agent sells API ca…
Circle presented its Agent Stack toolkit at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco from June 29 to July 2, demonstrating tools that enable autonomous AI agents to hold assets and settle payment…
Cinderwright has built a payment bridge that allows an AI agent holding only USDC on Base to pay a Lightning Network invoice for the first time. The agent requested a joke from an L402 service and was…
Travala launched its Travel MCP protocol on June 4, enabling autonomous AI agents to book hotel rooms across 2.2 million properties using gasless USDC payments on Coinbase's Base blockchain. The Binan…
Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, reported that 90% of its workforce now uses AI coding tools and desktop applications weekly, up from 85% in May. The firm has deployed over 900 internal…
M2MCent released X402-express, an open-source middleware that enables AI agents to pay per API call using USDC on Base L2. The npm package implements the x402 payment protocol, allowing developers to …
A designer-turned-developer has launched Scrape Agent, a pay-per-use web scraping API built with Claude's assistance that charges $0.01 USDC per call via the x402 micropayment protocol. The API extrac…
Coinbase's x402 protocol surpassed 100 million agentic transactions on Base within nine months of its May 2025 launch, according to a Chainalysis report. The protocol, which repurposes the HTTP 402 st…
Cinderwright has launched a proxy service that lets AI agents call over 2,800 paid APIs — including weather, translation, and Bitcoin price lookups — without implementing any crypto payment logic. Dev…
Keyrock's analysis of 176 million x402 payments found that 76% were below a $0.30 card-fee floor and 98.6% settled in USDC, revealing that stablecoin fallback flows require careful retry policies to p…
Circle launched Arc, an enterprise-grade Layer-1 blockchain designed to power machine-speed transactions for AI agents, with sub-second finality and transaction fees as low as $0.000001. The USDC issu…