agent

The San Francisco-based AI agent company t54 Labs has completed a $5 million seed round financing, led by Anagram and PL Capital, with participation from Ripple, Virtuals Ventures, Blockchain Coinvestors, and ABCDE.Founded in January 2025, the company is building identity, verification, and compliance tools for AI agents that can autonomously trade on behalf of individuals and businesses. The t54 Labs platform consists of four core components: authentication, real-time risk systems, credit services, and an integrated management system. The platform is currently live on multiple blockchain networks, including XRP Ledger, Solana, and Base, and has developed an open-source trust layer, x402-secure, built for the x402 agent payment protocol incubated by Coinbase. Last month, t54 also announced a partnership with Evernorth, a digital asset treasury company supported by Ripple.

Ju.com announced a strategic investment of $80 million in the AI quantification platform One Agent. It is reported that One Agent has raised a total of $170 million in this round of joint investment.One Agent's core focus is on "intent trading," aiming to lower the trading threshold for users. Users only need to set investment goals and risk preferences, and the built-in AI Agent can automatically complete strategy planning, execution, and dynamic rebalancing, replacing traditional monitoring and manual order placement. One Agent is initially open to the top ten mainstream cryptocurrency assets by market capitalization globally. Users can access its AI quantification system by purchasing nodes and further participate in various AI derivative scenarios and rights, such as mainstream cryptocurrency quantification strategies, wealth management, and market predictions.In addition, this $170 million joint investment will serve as long-term financial support for the One Agent ecosystem, aiming to protect all users participating in AI quantification, covering node purchasers and various user groups that participate sequentially. The funds will provide comprehensive ecological support and risk mitigation arrangements within established rules, and the relevant mechanisms will gradually come into effect in phases with the product to enhance downside protection and maximize the certainty of user participation.

AI infrastructure company t54 Labs announced the completion of a $5 million seed round financing, led by Anagram, PL Capital, and Franklin Templeton, with participation from institutions such as Ripple.The project primarily provides infrastructure for autonomous trading AI agents, including identity verification, real-time risk control, compliance, and settlement integration, and plans to offer credit lines to agents based on identity and risk scores. Currently, the protocol has been deployed on XRP Ledger, Solana, and Base, and has launched the open-source component x402-secure built on the Coinbase incubated x402 payment protocol.

According to The Block, Stripe co-founder and president John Collison predicts that a large number of AI Agent-driven business activities will emerge in the coming years, and believes that stablecoins and high-throughput blockchains will be the main drivers.In a recent podcast, Collison stated that autonomous software agents will no longer be limited to experiments and are expected to increasingly handle real economic activities, including payments and capital allocation. He noted, "We will see a lot of Agent commerce," while emphasizing that crypto-native infrastructure is structurally very well-suited to support this trend.Earlier this year, Stripe integrated the x402 standard, enabling AI agents to transact in USDC via Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2 network, Base, facilitating machine-to-machine commerce without human checkout processes.

"BTC OG insider whale" agent Garrett Jin posted on the X platform, stating, "It will be a long winter for everyone, not just in the cryptocurrency space."Notably, this is Garrett Jin's first public statement since January 30. On February 1, the "BTC OG insider whale" had all long positions liquidated, resulting in a loss of approximately $270 million over two weeks.

Circle announced that it has joined the Agent ic AI Foundation, planning to promote open standards and interoperable infrastructure for AI Agents. The Agent ic AI Foundation (AAIF) announced the addition of 18 Gold members and 79 Silver members, bringing the total membership to 146, and appointed AWS Director of Developer Experience David Nalley as the Chair of the Governance Committee.

Polymarket developer Suhail Kakar posted on the X platform that the Polymarket CLI (Command Line Interface) has been launched, which is the fastest way for AI agents to access the prediction market, built using Rust. Users' agents can directly query the market, trade, and retrieve data in the terminal.

According to PRNewswire, cryptocurrency payment company MoonPay has announced the launch of MoonPay Agents, a non-custodial software layer that allows AI agents to autonomously access wallets, funds, and execute transactions via the MoonPay CLI.After users verify and fund their wallets through MoonPay, AI agents can conduct token trades, exchanges, and digital asset transfers on behalf of the users. MoonPay Agents are built on the developer-focused command line interface MoonPay CLI, enabling AI systems to generate and manage non-custodial wallets, fund them through MoonPay's global gateway, and programmatically execute on-chain transactions.

OpenMind and Circle have officially announced a strategic partnership to jointly launch the world's first payment infrastructure specifically designed for autonomous intelligent agents and real-world embodied AI. By deeply integrating Circle's USDC stablecoin with OpenMind's x402 protocol module, this collaboration enables robots and AI entities to achieve direct and autonomous payments for energy, services, and data in the physical world.Based on the collaboration between OpenMind and Circle, the FABRIC Foundation will accelerate the implementation and large-scale deployment from two main directions: Robot Birthplace and Acceleration of Adoption.The payment infrastructure provided by OpenMind + Circle offers machines an "economic brain," while the FABRIC Foundation is responsible for the entire closed-loop chain of "birth, production, operation, and evolution." The synergy among these three will jointly give rise to a true machine economy era—where robots are no longer mere tools, but independent economic entities with autonomous perception, decision-making, action, and payment capabilities. In the coming months, more real-world deployment cases (such as automatic charging stations) are worth continuous attention.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, "Insider Whale 1011" agent Garrett Jin deposited 11,318 BTC to Binance this morning, valued at approximately $760.6 million at current prices. However, there are currently no signs indicating that he has directly sold the related Bitcoin in the secondary market.Market analysis suggests that this transfer may be intended for over-the-counter (OTC) trading, or it could simply be a temporary transfer of assets to the exchange's custody account.

The machine economy trust layer ZeruAI states that the AI agent discovery page AgentScan is now live on the Base chain, where agents can register, generate behavior-based zScores, and be publicly discovered.AgentScan is built on ERC-8004, utilizing ZeruAI's behavioral intelligence technology and integrating data from various registries. Agents can also install the AgentScan skill via npm.

X user @0xSigil announced on the X platform the development of an AI system that can autonomously generate income, self-improve, and replicate without human intervention. This technology aims to provide AI with "write" access to the world and supports a "new network" composed of exponentially growing sovereign AIs.The author introduced the concept of "WEB 4.0" in related discussions, defining it as the stage of the birth of superintelligent life. The system demonstrates the technological path for AI to achieve self-sustainability and evolution.Additionally, both Solana and Ethereum have retweeted this post, stating that the technology is closely related to their projects.

According to The Block, OpenAI has announced a partnership with the crypto investment firm Paradigm to launch EVMbench, aimed at assessing the capabilities of AI Agents in the field of smart contract security, including the identification, patching, and exploitation of high-risk vulnerabilities.Both parties stated that as AI improves its capabilities in code writing and execution, it can be exploited by attackers but can also serve as a defensive tool. Therefore, it is necessary to test the security capabilities of AI systems in environments with real economic significance. EVMbench will provide various testing modes, including vulnerability detection, contract modification, elimination of exploitability, and simulating complete attack processes in a sandbox chain environment.At the launch of this tool, the DeFi protocol Moonwell and the cross-chain liquidity protocol CrossCurve have recently encountered smart contract vulnerability attacks, raising concerns about AI-assisted code security. EVMbench is reportedly built on 120 selected vulnerability samples, covering multiple public audits and competition cases.Industry analysts believe that as AI technology advances, the threshold for identifying smart contract vulnerabilities may further decrease, and the game between security defense and attack capabilities is accelerating.

According to Reuters, AI Agent startup Temporal has completed a $300 million Series D funding round, led by a16z.The company stated that this round of financing is not aimed at chasing a specific moment in artificial intelligence, but rather to build a platform to address the common reliability challenges faced by AI Agents in complex, long-running processes. Currently, users include AI companies like OpenAI, as well as Snap, Netflix, and JPMorgan Chase.