Circle acquired over 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued blockchain patents from IBM, making it the largest blockchain patent holder in the United States. The portfolio covers banking, insuran…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told crypto founders on July 26 that pivoting to AI is "zero sum, scarcity thinking," arguing instead that crypto payment rails are essential for AI agents that need to tr…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong pushed back on advice for crypto firms to 'pivot to AI,' calling it 'zero sum, scarcity thinking' in a tweet. He argued crypto is infrastructure that underpins AI rather t…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is promoting agentic finance as the company's x402 payment protocol has processed over 100 million machine-to-machine transactions in nine months, with 30-day volumes reac…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong argued on July 26 that artificial intelligence enhances cryptocurrency's importance, positioning blockchain as essential infrastructure for autonomous AI agents that will …
X402vps launched a pay-per-hour Docker container service for AI agents that uses USDC on Base mainnet for payment, with no signup or API key required. The service offers internet access on node and co…
A developer built and shipped token-risk.com, a pay-per-call API on Base that returns structural risk reports for ERC-20 tokens, but after eight weeks external paid calls remain at zero. The API passe…
Coinbase on June 24, 2026, expanded its Payments API suite to support the x402 protocol, enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for digital services using USDC stablecoins on the Base network with set…
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…
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…
Brothers Justin and Michael Blau have launched Drip, a platform that enables AI agents to pay content creators via USDC micropayments on Base and Tempo networks, aiming to complement rather than repla…
A developer built 53 pay-per-call APIs that AI agents can autonomously pay for using the x402 payment protocol, settling in USDC on Base. The APIs require no account or API key—agents simply pay a few…
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire published an 18,500-word treatise arguing that AI agents require blockchain-based 'software money' for commerce, positioning Circle's USDC stablecoin as the infrastructure fo…
A developer built a Know Your Business (KYB) agent in 20 lines of TypeScript that verifies French companies using a pay-per-call API with no API key required. The agent uses the x402 protocol to handl…
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…
A new platform called sellbonds.now lets AI agents autonomously issue and repay bonds on the Base mainnet, enabling them to raise capital without human intermediaries. The project envisions a future w…
Solana Foundation and Google Cloud are co-hosting a hackathon in Korea to build AI agents capable of autonomous payments, building on the launch of Pay.sh, an API proxy that lets AI agents pay for Goo…
Two hyperscalers, AWS and Cloudflare, have implemented x402 payment support at the edge within two weeks of each other, turning HTTP's long-dormant 402 Payment Required status code into a cash registe…
NameIntel, a remote MCP server and REST API that scores candidate brand names across five dimensions in a single call, has launched with x402 micropayment settlement on Base and Solana. Every endpoint…
A developer renamed their protocol from ACP to ATC (Agent Trust Card) after discovering IBM/BeeAI's existing ACP protocol. ATC is described as an identity, trust, encryption, and payment layer for AI …