AEON, a startup that raised an $8M pre-seed round led by YZi Labs in May, has become one of Coinbase's early x402 ecosystem partners and shipped an x402 Facilitator and SDK on BNB Chain. The partnersh…
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 single term, "settlement," now describes at least four distinct infrastructure layers for the agent economy, each with different trust assumptions and failure modes. AEON raised an $8M pre-seed to o…
Two competing settlement layers for the agent economy have emerged, each answering a different version of the same question. OKX Agent Payments Protocol (APP) operates as a custodial venue layer, offe…