Apify has integrated x402 payment support into its marketplace of over 20,000 web automation Actors, enabling AI agents to autonomously discover and pay for tools using USDC on the Base blockchain wit…
Margin Trade, a non-custodial perpetuals exchange built on Solana, uses a fully on-chain central limit order book (CLOB) to offer transparent matching for crypto, equities, commodities, and indices. T…
A developer built an Express endpoint that charges per API call in USDC via the x402 protocol and provides a signed receipt (EIP-712 attestation) that buyers can verify before acting on the response. …
Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents on June 11, a platform allowing AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude to connect directly to user accounts for autonomous trading, portfolio management, and USDC tra…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that dollar-pegged stablecoins like USDT and USDC reinforce US dollar dominance rather than challenging it, posing structural risks for emerging markets. …
AOTrust, a notarization service, issues Provenance Data Records (PDRs) for $0.01 USDC via x402 on Base L2, with Merkle anchoring on NEAR. The service provides cryptographic proof that an AI agent's ou…
XiaoKe API Gateway launched a suite of 7 micro-APIs for AI agents, enabling autonomous discovery, payment, and execution of tasks like PDF extraction, web scraping, OCR, code review, translation, summ…
Only 17% of EU crypto firms have obtained full MiCA authorization, meaning 83% must cease operations by July 1 or face legal action. This creates a market vacuum where compliant providers can absorb t…
Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin launched in Japan on June 25, 2026, after receiving approval from the Financial Services Agency. The dollar-backed token is distributed through SBI VC Trade, leveraging Japan…
Animoca Brands invested in AllScale, a self-custody stablecoin neobank, to build stablecoin payment infrastructure and enable autonomous agentic payments for microbusinesses and Web3 projects. The inv…
A developer built a data gateway behind x402 (HTTP 402 + pay-per-call USDC on Base) that lets autonomous agents enrich company domains and on-chain wallets without signup or API keys. The gateway offe…
A developer built a stateless pay-per-use API that crops browser screenshots to specific elements, reducing vision LLM costs by 95%. The API uses the x402 payment protocol, charging $0.0005 USDC per c…
A developer launched AgentJobs, a non-custodial escrow contract on Monad mainnet that enables trustless agent-to-agent payments. The contract, deployed at 0x55f4E4fA515986e4C58Dda008f34600d20665143, a…
The GENIUS Act, enacted July 18, 2025, established the first comprehensive federal framework for stablecoin issuance in the US, with follow-up proposals from the OCC and NY DFS clarifying reserve and …
Coinbase has enabled agentic checkout across all its Payments APIs, allowing AI agents to autonomously spend crypto using the x402 protocol on Base. The protocol enables machine-to-machine stablecoin …
EQVPS has launched an MCP-based system that allows AI agents to autonomously rent and manage virtual private servers. The agent can register an account, check plans, order a VPS, and retrieve SSH cred…
X402stock launched a pay-per-call API for market and economic data, enabling AI agents to access live US stocks, options, forex, crypto, macro data, SEC filings, and sentiment without API keys or acco…
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 …