529 posts tagged with "AI agents"
AI agents and autonomous systems
Coinbase's Agentic.Market: The First App Store Where AI Agents Buy From Other Agents
Coinbase launched Agentic.Market on April 20, 2026 — a permissionless directory where AI agents discover and pay for services in USDC over HTTP. 165M transactions, $50M volume, 85% settled on Base.
Kite AI Becomes First Crypto L1 Inside Google's Agent Payments Protocol
Kite AI, an EVM-compatible L1 purpose-built for autonomous agents, is the first crypto chain inside Google's Agent Payments Protocol. Here is what that means for the agentic web.
Kraken's Open-Source CLI Bets the Next Crypto Interface Is a Terminal — Not a Trading Screen
Kraken's open-source Rust CLI rewrites its exchange surface for AI agents, shipping 134+ commands, a built-in MCP server, and local paper trading — a structural bet that the next wave of trading volume belongs to software, not humans.
When AI Agents Hold the Keys: Why Mind Network's FHE Bet Could Define the Next $311B
Mind Network is betting that fully homomorphic encryption is the missing primitive between $311B in stablecoin supply and autonomous agents that can hold private keys without leaking strategy. A look at the stack war shaping the machine economy.
PYUSD Quietly Hits $4.5B: How PayPal's Stablecoin Proved Distribution Beats Technology
PayPal's PYUSD crossed $4.5B in April 2026 to become the fourth-largest stablecoin — built without DeFi yields, airdrops, or crypto-native distribution. Here's why distribution beats technology in the $320B stablecoin market.
AGDP Is Eating TVL: How Virtuals Protocol's $479M Agent Economy Is Rewriting Blockchain Valuation
Virtuals Protocol's Agentic GDP hit $479M in early 2026, signaling a shift from TVL toward a flow-based metric that measures autonomous agent productivity on-chain.
250,000 Daily Active On-Chain AI Agents: What the 400% Growth Really Means
Q1 2026 data puts 250,000+ AI agents active on-chain every day — a 400% year-over-year jump that places autonomous agent traffic ahead of human wallet growth on Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain. Here's what the number actually means, and why 84% of it is MEV bots.
Sentio Hits Kraken as $ST Goes Live: Can a TypeScript-First Indexer Crack The Graph's Data Throne?
Kraken's April 15, 2026 listing of Sentio's $ST token puts a TypeScript-native, compute-metered indexing network into fiat-tradeable range — and forces the Web3 data layer to finally pick between decentralization and convenience.
BNB Chain BAP-578: The Standard That Turns AI Agents Into Ownable On-Chain Assets
BNB Chain's BAP-578 standard introduces Non-Fungible Agents — AI agents that exist as ownable, tradeable on-chain assets with verifiable identity and behavioral history. With 44,000 active agents processing 523,000 daily transactions on BSC, the agent economy has moved from forecast to production reality.