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 …
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…