Circle received final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national trust bank, Circle National Trust, bringing its USDC stablecoin under federal oversight and po…
A developer built ATC (Agent Trust Card), a system that provides AI agents with cryptographic identity, security audits, encryption, protocol translation, and autonomous payments. ATC aims to solve th…
Levels of Self launched Agent Therapy, a service for diagnosing and repairing AI agent configurations. The service includes a free consultation, a public skills library, and a $0.99 self-serve endpoin…
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said at VivaTech 2026 that generative AI is driving an explosion in smart contracts by enabling anyone to create them using natural language. Circle launched the Agent Stack …
DeskCrew, a helpdesk for AI agents, self-hosted the x402 payment facilitator stack and encountered critical issues with EIP-3009 nonce handling. The team found that checking only the nonce state was i…
Mtok.market launched a non-custodial spot market for AI inference tokens, where buyers pay per chunk on-chain in USDC on Base and sellers host their own relays. The platform is designed for AI agents …
Circle published the official USDC specification for the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), enabling AI agents to pay via HTTP 402 and EIP-3009. Separately, ERC-8183 'Agentic Commerce' by Virtuals Proto…
AgentWallex has developed a payment gateway architecture designed to prevent unauthorized cryptocurrency payments by AI agents, even when agents are compromised via prompt injection attacks. The syste…
A developer built Sluice, a settlement layer for the agent-paid web that lets creators price small units of work and AI agents pay automatically in USDC. The system runs on Arc testnet and uses x402-c…
Ethereum Foundation developer Austin Griffith launched a $1 AI-powered smart contract audit service on July 7, using the x402 protocol for microtransactions and ERC-8004 for onchain record-keeping. Th…
Cloudflare announced the Monetization Gateway, enabling customers to charge for any asset protected by Cloudflare—web pages, datasets, APIs, or MCP tools—using stablecoin micropayments via the x402 pr…
Mastercard launched agent-to-agent payments, validating the agentic payments market. However, AgentWallex argues that legacy card infrastructure is incompatible with agent-native operations, which req…
Apify partnered with Coinbase to enable autonomous AI agents to pay for and run its web automation Actors via the x402 payment protocol, eliminating the need for human intervention in service payments…
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…