Cloudflare launches cloudflare.pay, a stablecoin-powered wallet letting AI agents shop online on users' behalf, as bot traffic now dominates 57% of all web activity, signaling a major shift toward AI-driven commerce.
AWS WAF launches a groundbreaking AI traffic monetization tool that lets website owners charge AI bots for content access directly at the network edge, as AI bot traffic surges past 50% of web traffic — up over 300% year-over-year — with payments collected in stablecoins via Coinbase's x402 Facilitator at …
AWS launches 'Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments,' enabling AI agents to autonomously execute USDC stablecoin transactions through partnerships with Coinbase and Stripe, marking a major Big Tech push into the emerging agentic economy.
Coinbase is cutting 700 jobs — roughly 14% of its workforce — as CEO Brian Armstrong cites AI acceleration and crypto market volatility, with the $50–$60 million restructuring expected to wrap up this quarter amid a broader tech industry wave of AI-driven layoffs.
Hundreds pack a New York City gallery for the 'AI Psychosis Summit,' a deliberately non-corporate, Diet Coke-fueled celebration of AI creativity featuring art, vibe-coded apps, and quirky projects like a subway-map jazz generator, organized by a scrappy group of online friends aiming to inject culture and humor into the AI …
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.
Open source AI assistant Moltbot rockets to 69,000 GitHub stars in just one month despite exposing users to serious security vulnerabilities through extensive system access requirements and prompting a $16 million cryptocurrency scam exploiting its sudden popularity.
Prediction market platform Kalshi raises $1 billion at $11 billion valuation from Sequoia and CapitalG as trading volume explodes to $50 billion annually, representing 1000x growth while competing with Polymarket for election betting dominance.