AI Agents

Analysts called derivatives “the prize” but expect limited near-term earnings impact from the new slate.

X402 usage is still largely USDC on Base and Solana, and Ripple disclosed no production XRPL volumes.

He argues protocol stewardship should stay separate from commercialization as Ethereum targets new adoption.

The new Travel MCP lets agents search and reserve inventory, but travelers still manually approve the final wallet payment.

Leaders flagged a four-month capability doubling pace and warned human review could become the limiting factor.

A May 20 amended paper outlines three system-level controls as Bankr disabled transactions after 14+ wallets were accessed.

After a $120M raise backed by Nasdaq and Deutsche Bank, Elliptic is building an “agentic” compliance system to automate monitoring.

CEO Ferdinand Dabitz said the Dallas stablecoin-and-AI bank is “a couple of months” from launch, pending pre-opening conditions.

The product pairs regulated fiat and crypto money movement with agent IDs, limits, and audit trails for compliance.

CEO Brian Armstrong said two named agents are already deployed internally as Coinbase pushes an AI-native workforce.

He argues AI agents will be heavy crypto users and warns countries that ignore AI and blockchain will fall behind.

NEAR, FET, GRASS and Worldcoin’s WLD gained more than 10% as Jensen Huang projected a $1T chip-demand backlog through 2027