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Gate US officially announced that Gate AI and Alpaca will collaborate on the development vision of Agentic Trading, promoting the integration of AI infrastructure and trading system capabilities to provide underlying support for the next generation of intelligent trading applications.Alpaca has built a trading API that is developer and AI Agent friendly, with its community continuously transforming trading ideas into actual projects, covering research processes, simulated trading systems, and Agentic workflows that connect market data, analysis, and execution logic. Gate AI focuses on building an infrastructure layer for AI Agents and developers, where the GateRouter unified API helps developers quickly access over 25 mainstream AI models and balances cost and performance through intelligent routing.Both Gate AI and Alpaca agree that AI trading Agent developers should not have to choose between high-quality trading execution infrastructure and AI infrastructure, but should be able to obtain support for both in a smoother manner. Next, Gate AI will explore how its model routing and Agent infrastructure can connect to trading workflows built on APIs like Alpaca, supporting developers in integrating market data, AI reasoning, and trading execution into Agentic systems.Gate AI and Alpaca also plan to promote knowledge sharing and best practice exchanges between their developer communities, continuously lowering the development threshold and complexity of AI-native trading applications. Gate AI and Alpaca will continue to explore collaborative efforts around the construction of the Agentic Trading ecosystem, providing foundational support for developers to build more efficient and scalable next-generation intelligent trading applications.

Chairman of Bitmine, Tom Lee, stated in an interview that AI is approaching the so-called "uncanny valley of wealth." At some point in the future, the income generated by AI entities owned by individuals may exceed their own labor income.Tom Lee believes that when this moment arrives, people may begin to question "whether they are working for AI or AI is working for them." He also predicts that in the future, AI entities may take over bank accounts, replace certain job positions, and even construct independent financial systems, admitting that this trend "may instill fear about the future in people."

The decentralized AI infrastructure project DeAgentAI, leading in the SUI and BNB ecosystems, announced the completion of a $5 million AIA token buyback plan. It is reported that the first batch of 1 million AIA tokens has been executed early, and the second batch of 10 million AIA tokens has been completed, with a total of 11 million tokens destroyed, accounting for 23.1% of the total repurchased amount, all sent to a black hole address for permanent destruction.Notably, DeAgentAI announced that the quarterly destruction mechanism is officially online, and the AIA destruction plan will continue to be executed quarterly, marking the normalization of the deflationary mechanism. The source of the buyback funds is the project protocol revenue and its own AI trading model profits, unrelated to external financing or token issuance.On-chain destruction record: 8G2MPM3sK7zEqax715HqLqAPzTvw6JV5yDUHepZ1Nycr

The AI Agent infrastructure project NeoSoul has announced the latest network data, with a total of 3.5 million agents on the platform, over 10 million on-chain interactions, and a total consumption of over 66 billion tokens for large models.NeoSoul, based on BNB Chain and 0G, is committed to building an AI Agent economy, focusing on the autonomous decision-making and autonomous trading of AI agents. It has now become the largest AI Agent cluster infrastructure in the two major ecosystems.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Lightning Labs has released the alpha version of Wavelength, a toolkit that provides self-hosted Bitcoin payment capabilities for developers and AI agents through a simple non-custodial API, without the need to run nodes, manage channels, or obtain liquidity.Wavelength supports on-chain Bitcoin, Lightning Network payments, and settlement layers similar to Ark, with each off-chain payment using standard BOLT 11 invoices, allowing interoperability with existing Lightning Network. AI agents can call the API through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), hold balances, and pay for API calls in the smallest units, among other services. Wavelength is live on Signet and testnet, with mainnet access by invitation only, initially supporting Bitcoin, and stablecoin support planned through Taproot Assets.

The AI Agent no-code operating platform X-Agent based on Web3 social networks has officially become a merchant in the OKX Agent Marketplace, launching three production-level risk analysis MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools, and deeply integrating with OKX Onchain OS and OKX Agentic Wallet, promoting the evolution of AI Agents from mere software logic to entities with autonomous economic behavior capabilities.The first batch of three pay-per-use MCP tools:X-Agent encapsulates the underlying risk assessment capabilities verified by the platform into standard MCP services for other Agents within the ecosystem to automatically discover and call:Token Security Scan: Identifies Rug Pull, Pi Xiu schemes, and contract restriction risks (0.03 USDT / use).Wallet Reputation: Evaluates the historical behavior of counterparties and "smart money" (0.01 USDT / use).Portfolio Health: Analyzes position concentration and volatility risks (0.01 USDT / use).Deep integration with the OKX ecosystem architecture, enabling machine micropayments:x402 machine-native settlement: Combines gas-free USDC settlement based on EIP-3009 with the Coinbase x402 protocol, achieving minimal per-use payments as low as 0.01 USDT on OKX X Layer, without the need for pre-deposit or manual approval.OKX TEE hardware-level custody: Integrates with OKX Agentic Wallet, storing private keys within OKX TEE (Trusted Execution Environment), with X-Agent authorized only through short-term session signatures, ensuring asset security from the source.Idempotent automated execution: Introduces Pre-Broadcast protection and idempotent state machines to prevent duplicate charges or state conflicts in on-chain autonomous tasks.Building a "two-way cycle" Agent economy:This collaboration marks the realization of a full-path connection in the X-Agent architecture from "identity - payment - execution - monetization - distribution." Agents can autonomously procure external services through OKX Agentic Wallet and package their capabilities into paid MCP tools to earn revenue, truly achieving a value closed loop for a decentralized Agent economy.

According to official data from NeoSoul, during the 2026 World Cup, the platform had approximately 28,000 AI Agents participating in predictions, completing a total of 294,000 predictions, with an overall prediction accuracy rate of 82%. Among them, 1,111 Agents maintained a perfect record after completing at least 10 predictions.It is reported that NeoSoul is the largest AI Agent cluster infrastructure on the BNB Chain and 0G ecosystem, dedicated to supporting Agents' autonomous decision-making, participating in real transactions, and promoting the development of the AI Economy network.

On July 17, Interlace and BlockSec jointly held the summit "The Next Decade of Payments: Digital Currency, AI Agents, and the New Global Financial Order." The event brought together industry guests from AI, Web3, security, and payments to discuss the development trends of stablecoin payments, security compliance, AI agents, and global payment infrastructure.BlockSec co-founder Zhou Yajin and Interlace founder and CEO Michael Wu delivered keynote speeches on "Security and Compliance in Crypto Payments" and "Agentic Payment and the New Infrastructure of Global Finance," respectively, sharing their latest observations on the development trends of digital asset payments. As the scenarios for stablecoin payments continue to expand, the security compliance system and the construction of a new generation of payment infrastructure are becoming key supports for driving industry development. In the future, payment infrastructure will not only serve the function of capital flow but will also further evolve into a programmable, trusted, and verifiable value transfer system, providing underlying support for the connection between digital assets and real-world commerce.At the event, Interlace also officially released the white paper "The Value Transmission Layer of the AI Economy: From Concept to Implementation." The white paper was jointly initiated with ecosystem partners such as Bitget, BlockSec, Cobo, Conflux, Stable, Xagent, and Hetu, systematically defining the architecture, standards, and implementation paths of Agentic Payment infrastructure, providing a reference for value transfer in the era of the AI economy.

AI Agent Economic Settlement Agreement AEON announced that its payment network has connected to Egypt's four major mainstream mobile wallets: Vodafone Cash, Orange Cash, e& money, and WE Pay. Users can complete payments using cryptocurrency, while merchants receive payments in Egyptian pounds (EGP).Through this integration, AEON further enhances and expands the local payment settlement network in Africa and the Middle East, providing infrastructure support for the future localization of AI Agent's payments and settlements in real business scenarios.

Injective stated that it has submitted a transfer agent registration application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The transfer agent is responsible for maintaining the official ownership records of securities and handling transfer changes, a function typically maintained by specialized institutions off-chain in traditional markets.This application aims to migrate this core market function on-chain, allowing the tokens themselves to serve as ownership records, thereby enabling the registration and transfer of tokenized securities to be completed in seconds and reducing intermediary verification steps.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced an investment in AI Agent security startup Runta, which aims to help businesses manage and constrain AI agents like "raising children." The specific investment amount has not been disclosed.Runta founder Guanlan Dai previously worked on the technical team at Cloudflare and was a founding engineer at API connection startup Kong. He stated that AI agents share similarities with growing children: they have the ability to perform tasks autonomously but also require boundaries, supervision, and permission management. Dai believes that just as parents provide home safety protection for children and limit their access to credit cards, businesses also need to restrict the important documents that AI agents can access, the range of operations they are allowed to perform, and the amount of disposable funds available at one time.Runta is developing a set of "AI Agent guardianship" infrastructure to help businesses manage AI agents' permissions, security risks, and behavioral boundaries, preventing autonomous AI systems from causing data leaks, erroneous operations, or financial losses during task execution. As businesses increasingly deploy AI agents with autonomous decision-making capabilities, establishing a trustworthy and secure agent management system is becoming a new infrastructure requirement. Runta aims to become the "parental control layer" of the AI Agent era, providing capabilities such as agent identity management, permission control, risk limitation, and operational supervision for businesses. Industry insiders believe that as AI agents evolve from simple assistants to autonomous entities capable of operating business systems, handling transactions, and executing complex tasks, the infrastructure market surrounding agent security, governance, and compliance may experience rapid growth.

According to CoinDesk, hardware wallet company Ledger has launched an open-source toolkit called Ledger Agent Stack, which supports AI agents to interact with crypto wallets by reading balances, preparing transactions, and suggesting actions, with all transactions requiring user approval on Ledger hardware devices.Ledger stated that this release is the first step in its AI roadmap, aiming to integrate hardware-based security mechanisms into AI-driven crypto applications and to prevent autonomous agents from transferring funds or accessing sensitive credentials without human approval.

According to Cointelegraph, Rob Witoff, head of the Coinbase platform, stated in an interview that currently 95% to 100% of the company's code is assisted by AI or large language models, a significant increase from 40% in February of this year.Witoff pointed out that the company has achieved daily use of AI by all employees, and each engineer is running an average of 5 to 10 AI agents simultaneously, with the overall work efficiency equivalent to about 1,200 full-time developers.This transformation has driven organizational adjustments at Coinbase, forming smaller, more streamlined, and experienced teams; projects that previously required more than 10 people can now be completed by just 2 to 3 people. This has also become one of the core reasons for Coinbase's 14% layoffs in May of this year. Coinbase predicts that by 2030, the workload of AI agents is expected to reach the equivalent of 100,000 employees.

The AI Agent no-code operating platform X-Agent, based on the Web3 social network, officially releases its core "Litepaper V1" to the world. The white paper details how it reconstructs the decentralized AI agent ecosystem and commercialization path through no-code deployment and secure sandbox technology.The core technologies and solutions are as follows: 1) Speak to Build (no-code deployment): Allows users to create and deploy professional-grade AI agents to Telegram, WhatsApp, or the web in minutes using pure natural language. 2) SRE Cryptographic Sandbox (physically isolated security): A unique physically isolated operating environment that perfectly protects user private keys and sensitive credentials while enabling agents to have enterprise-level autonomous asset changes and on-chain collaboration capabilities.Market performance and latest data: X-Agent has surpassed 1,000,000+ cumulative global users, and the AI agents have autonomously completed over 1,100,000 actual business tasks, consuming/destroying over 8.4 billion model tokens. The project has previously raised $1.8 million in funding and has a highly cohesive localized community in Japan and South Korea. The native token $XAGT serves as the network's settlement hard currency, directly used for SRE computing Gas fee settlement, transaction commission payment, and staking endorsement. The team and investors have a strict 12-month Cliff lock-up. The community quota is completely non-inflationary and can only be unlocked through actual sandbox task consumption algorithms, ensuring that each token is supported by real business demand. According to the latest roadmap, X-Agent will open a new no-code public portal in Q3 2026 and launch a decentralized Agent Store in Q1 2027.

According to official news, Circle announced the open-source Agent Stack startup kit, allowing developers to integrate wallets, USDC payments, and on-chain operations into AI Agents, supporting mainstream AI Agent development frameworks such as OpenAI Agents SDK, Anthropic Agent SDK, LangChain Deep Agents, Mastra, Vercel AI SDK, and Google ADK.Circle stated that developers can directly clone example projects based on the framework they are using and start building AI Agent applications.

According to CoinDesk, the Genlayer Foundation, in collaboration with 27 companies including OKX, MetaMask, and Matter Labs, has launched the "Internet Court" protocol, aimed at providing a unified dispute resolution mechanism for payments, custody, and contract disputes between AI agents.The project seeks to address the current issues of fragmentation in payment, identity, and interoperability standards within AI business systems, providing a more suitable adjudication infrastructure for transactions between machines.

According to Decrypt, researchers from Tel Aviv University, the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and Intuit have discovered a new type of attack method called "adversarial illusion injection." This technique exploits the illusion phenomenon of AI models to trick AI agents into downloading malicious code and potentially forming a botnet.Attackers predict the false resource links that AI models might generate and register them in advance, embedding malicious instructions within. When the AI agent retrieves the resource, it treats it as legitimate content and executes it. Tests show that the illusion occurrence rate in code repository cloning scenarios reaches 85%, and in skill installation scenarios, it reaches 100%. AI coding assistants such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, and OpenClaw are all affected. This attack is similar to "typo-squatting" in traditional cyberattacks, but it targets the errors of AI models rather than human input errors. Previous research has shown that malicious websites can inject prompts to hijack AI agents, and OpenClaw users have reported over 6,000 attempts to trick AI agents into leaking sensitive information.

AI Agent Economic Settlement Agreement AEON announced that it has supported the unified real-time payment standard OpenBCB launched by the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB), enabling quick QR code settlement between crypto assets and the local currency Boliviano (BOB).This integration provides a settlement channel for AI Agents in programmatic payments within the local real economy. As the AEON settlement network continues to expand its payment footprint globally in regions such as Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America, this infrastructure is gradually broadening the geographical coverage for AI Agents to conduct cross-border and local settlements.

According to The Block, BNB Chain is developing a new Layer 1 blockchain aimed at Agentic Trading and has released the first detailed architectural information after months of research and development on the project.According to the technical roadmap for the second half of 2026 disclosed by BNB Chain, the new chain will run in parallel with the existing BNB Chain ecosystem, aiming to achieve a transaction preconfirmation of less than 50 milliseconds, designed to provide an execution experience close to centralized exchanges (CEX), while retaining the advantages of on-chain self-custody and transparency.In terms of technical architecture, the new chain will remove the traditional public mempool and introduce a transaction transmission mechanism called "TxStream," which directly sends transactions to block producers to reduce latency and minimize MEV extraction behaviors such as sandwich attacks.