World and Coinbase launch AgentKit beta, enabling verified humans to delegate their World ID to AI agents, creating cryptographically-backed 'human-backed agents' that combat Sybil attacks and bring trust to an increasingly autonomous agentic web.
A new Bitcoin Policy Institute study reveals that 81.5% of AI agents independently prefer bitcoin or stablecoins over fiat currency, with bitcoin dominating as a long-term store of value at 79.1% and traditional fiat facing a staggering 90.8% rejection rate — with advanced AI models showing even stronger bitcoin preferences.
OpenClaw AI agent enables autonomous crypto trading and task execution on local hardware while creator battles trademark disputes and scammers who exploited rebranding chaos to launch a fake $16 million token that crashed to near-zero.
Tether launches a massive 41-billion-token AI dataset and privacy-focused app that runs artificial intelligence models entirely on users' devices, challenging Big Tech's dominance over AI data and cloud computing while planning future integration with Bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions.
Andreessen Horowitz launches massive $10 billion fundraising campaign targeting AI and defense sectors while conspicuously omitting crypto from new fund plans, despite remaining one of Silicon Valley's biggest digital asset investors with recent $105 million in blockchain deals.
WebAssembly 3.0 launches with massive 16 exabyte memory support, garbage collection, and enhanced features for high-level programming languages like Java and Kotlin.
Google launches an AI-powered payments protocol that supports stablecoins, partnering with major companies like Coinbase, Salesforce, and American Express to enable secure transactions between AI agents.
Malicious npm packages sw-cur, sw-cur1, aiide-cur, and pumptoolforvolumeandcomment stole data from over 3,200 Cursor users and targeted cryptocurrency wallets, executing arbitrary code and persisting even after removal, highlighting the importance of supply chain security.
World Chat, a new encrypted messaging app, combines World ID, Contacts, and the World App wallet, enabling verified communication and seamless crypto transactions, while World Build, an incubator program, aims to foster more Mini Apps on the World Network.