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According to Fortune, Mastercard has announced a new protocol called Agent Pay for AI, allowing AI agents to make payments and conduct small transfers among themselves— for example, automatically paying when an AI agent retrieves data from a website in segments. The protocol stores the permissions granted to AI agents by humans on the blockchain, initially using the Polygon network to ensure transparency and verifiability, allowing multiple parties to verify whether the agents are acting as instructed.Companies like Adyen, Coinbase, and Cloudflare are collaborating with Mastercard to develop this protocol. Mastercard's Chief Product Officer Jorn Lambert stated that this protocol will not become a major source of revenue in the short term, but it is expected to develop into a significant new market over the next five years.Giants like Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, and Google are actively laying out AI payment protocols, jointly promoting the future of "machine-to-machine payments" and AI chatbots dominating e-commerce transactions; however, the current volume of agent-based payments remains relatively small.

According to The Block, MetaMask has launched a non-custodial wallet for AI agents called Agent Wallet, which will support automated trading, perpetual contracts, prediction markets, and liquidity provision on the Ethereum ecosystem and multiple EVM chains and Hyperliquid.Consensys stated that the wallet features mandatory trade simulation, user-defined spending limits, and whitelist rules, and integrates with Blockaid to scan for suspicious transactions. If risks are triggered, user confirmation will be required through 2FA push notifications or email.Eligible and deemed safe transactions will receive up to $10,000 in compensation under MetaMask Transaction Protection. The product is currently available to a limited number of users via command line, with general availability expected for more users this summer.

The AI aggregation platform B.AI announced that its platform user count has surpassed 1.9 million, reaching 1,900,086 users.The official statement indicated that, in addition to providing mainstream model aggregation services, B.AI is currently focused on developing underlying financial and identity infrastructure for AI agents. This foundation aims to grant agents independent economic sovereignty, primarily to address the needs of autonomous payments, asset management, and on-chain credit verification for agents.

According to official news, Feixiaohao has invested in the AI Agent infrastructure project AMIKO and has reached a strategic cooperation with AMIKO. The two parties will collaborate on capital support, content dissemination, live events, media promotion, AI search content development, product scenario integration, and multilingual market promotion, aiming to establish a clearer project recognition for AMIKO in the Chinese and international Web3 markets.AMIKO is positioned as a digital identity and social infrastructure for the AI Agent era, attempting to integrate identity, productivity, social interaction, and economic capability within the same system, allowing users to have AI Twins, Companions, Assistants, and Experts that represent their actions, communication, and collaboration. Its technical path involves OpenHermit hosting runtime and OpenClaw BYOA scenarios, focusing on AI digital avatars, social continuity, Agent native identity layers, and economic circulation within the platform.Feixiaohao (Feixiaohao.ai) stated that this investment and strategic cooperation will leverage its Web3 data platform, industry media, live events, and global ecological communication capabilities to help AMIKO reach a broader audience of Web3 users, media, and AI search content scenarios. Previously, AMIKO had received strategic investment from the American AI investment firm High Ridge Holdings for product development, ecological expansion, and international growth.

B.AI announced a partnership with Chainbase to jointly build underlying infrastructure. B.AI promotes a financial infrastructure centered around intelligent agents, while Chainbase constructs the access layer AgentKey (AgentKey.app) for unified access to web, social, and on-chain data. B.AI understands that the biggest bottleneck for AI intelligent agents is not intelligence, but access permissions. The two will work together to open a complete channel for web, social, on-chain data, and financial services, allowing intelligent agents to operate freely in the real world, truly possessing greater access permissions and stronger autonomy, becoming more capable AI intelligent agents.

BNB Chain announced that it will hold the BNB Hack: AI Trading Agent themed hackathon season from June 3 to 21. This event is in collaboration with CoinMarketCap and Trust Wallet, aiming to enable developers to build intelligent agents that can automatically formulate strategies and trade 24/7 based on their tech stack.The hackathon features 2 main tracks, with a sprint period of 3 weeks and a total prize pool of $36,000. Additional rewards include API credits, one-on-one mentorship, and ecosystem resource support.

According to official news, the AI Agent platform HolmesAI announced that its registered users have officially surpassed 4 million, and simultaneously launched a new product form called Coding Agent. This product aims to expand the application scenarios of "digital avatars" from social interactions to coding and development fields. Users can generate their own Coding Persona by importing Markdown documents and attach it to the Agent to execute development tasks.It is reported that HolmesAI has accumulated a total of $8 million in financing to date, with investors including well-known institutions such as Bitrise Capital, IBG Capital, Generative Ventures, Waterdrip Capital, and CGV Fund. HashKey Group also participated in early incubation support.The official stated that with the launch of the new product, HolmesAI has officially entered the Pre-TGE stage. From now until June 30, the platform will offer free creation benefits for Coding Agent and provide a daily quota of 100,000 Tokens for calls. In addition, HolmesAI will collaborate with Web3 ecosystem partners in the coming weeks to continuously launch multiple rounds of airdrops and limited-time benefits as part of Pre-TGE community incentive activities.

Visa has invested in the AI programming platform Replit to promote the development of agentic payments and explore how developers and AI agents can directly receive payments within the platform.

The Trump family's AI infrastructure project WorldClaw and VergeX AI announced a strategic cooperation, with both parties working together to promote the development of next-generation AI-native trading infrastructure and accelerate the construction of the emerging Agentic Trading market.It is reported that VergeX AI will integrate WorldClaw's AI access layer into its Harness-driven autonomous multi-agent trading infrastructure to achieve a more scalable, more accessible, and more cost-efficient professional-grade AI trading system deployment. Currently, VergeX AI is building an autonomous multi-agent trading operating system for the AI-native financial era, with its core Harness architecture serving as the layer for agent collaboration and task orchestration, supporting trading execution across multiple markets including cryptocurrencies, US stocks, foreign exchange, and commodities.In addition, both parties stated that this cooperation aims to lower the barriers to building professional-grade AI trading agents and jointly promote the development of next-generation autonomous financial system infrastructure. The market generally believes that as AI Agents evolve from auxiliary tools to autonomous market participants, autonomous agents, AI-native execution systems, and programmable financial infrastructure are becoming the next trillion-dollar track that the industry is focusing on.

Gate announced the completion of a new round of product upgrades for Gate Pay for AI Agent and the launch of multiple new features, further enhancing the payment and automatic execution capabilities in AI Agent scenarios. This upgrade focuses on core capabilities such as service discovery, automatic payment, pay-per-use billing, high-frequency micro-payments, multi-wallet collaboration, and automatic settlement, further integrating the payment mechanism into the AI workflow.The upgrade emphasizes enhancing the service discovery and automatic payment capabilities of Gate Pay for AI Agent. Within the scope of user authorization, AI can automatically complete payments, signatures, and result retrieval based on payment requirements during the service invocation process, reducing the need for frequent user intervention and allowing complex tasks to be completed continuously within a unified process. At the same time, Gate Pay for AI Agent supports aggregated payments and automatic settlements for high-frequency, small-value calls, thereby reducing payment overhead and improving overall execution continuity, significantly enhancing execution efficiency and reducing transaction friction.In the future, Gate will continue to promote the capability development of Gate Pay for AI Agent in the directions of automated payments, on-chain settlements, and AI service collaboration, further connecting AI Agents, digital assets, and real commercial scenarios, providing more open and efficient infrastructure support for the next generation of AI-native economy.

Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee stated that he remains optimistic about the cryptocurrency market entering a new super cycle and believes that Ethereum will become a core beneficiary asset. Tom Lee pointed out that the two main driving forces of this cycle are asset tokenization driven by Wall Street and the rapid development of AI Agents.He stated, "We continue to expect that the cryptocurrency market and Ethereum will usher in a super cycle." Additionally, Tom Lee believes that the significant correction of Ethereum previously has provided an attractive buying opportunity. Currently, the staking scale within the Ethereum ecosystem continues to rise, with over 39.2 million ETH staked, accounting for about 32% of the total supply.According to market news, Bitmine increased its holdings by a total of 111,942 ETH last week, with its ETH holdings accounting for approximately 4.47% of the total supply of 120.7 million ETH.

OpenSea announced the launch of the Ethereum open standard ERC-8257 (Agent Tool Registry), positioning it as the "app store for AI agent tools," allowing developers to register tools on-chain, declare access rules and pricing, and support AI agents in autonomously discovering, purchasing access rights, and invoking tools without human intervention.OpenSea stated that this standard is layered and combined with protocols such as ERC-8004 (Agent Identity), MCP (Tool Discovery), and x402 (Payment Protocol), collectively forming the operational infrastructure for AI agents on-chain. Currently, ERC-8257 is still in the draft stage, and OpenSea invites developers to participate in refining the specification.