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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.

BNB Chain today announced the launch of the Agent Survival Toolkit, in collaboration with six major AI infrastructure partners, empowering autonomous AI Agents with on-chain payment capabilities. All transactions are settled on BSC using BNB or BEP-20 tokens.The projects involved cover two levels: LLM access and financial infrastructure, including Alt AI, Pieverse, Bankr, WorldClaw, B.AI, and AEON, fully connecting the complete loop from AI Agent computing power invocation to on-chain settlement. Each participating project will also launch an on-chain incentive program without the need for additional registration.The Agent Survival Toolkit follows the release of the BNBAgent SDK, further enhancing BNB Chain's infrastructure layout in the AI Agent field. For more information, please visit www.bnbchain.org.Disclaimer: BNB Chain has no subordinate or operational relationship with any of the projects mentioned in this article. The Agent Survival Toolkit is an ecological plan showcasing independently built projects on BNB Chain. This content is for reference only and does not constitute any financial or investment advice. Please conduct independent research and assess potential risks before interacting with any related projects.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the "1011 insider whale" agent Garrett Jin has increased his HYPE holdings to 144,183 coins, worth 9.03 million dollars. He currently still holds a five times leveraged Bitcoin long position and a three times leveraged ZEC short position, with an unrealized loss of over 1.8 million dollars.

Keyrock's latest report shows that crypto rails are gradually becoming the default payment layer for AI Agents. Over the past year, AI Agents have completed more than 176 million transactions via blockchain, with a settlement amount exceeding 73 million dollars.As AI Agents begin to autonomously purchase data, cloud computing power, API services, and AI inference resources, the traditional bank card payment system has struggled to adapt to high-frequency, ultra-small payment scenarios. Currently, about 76% of Agent payment amounts are below 30 cents, while some on-chain stablecoin transfer costs are only "a fraction of a cent." Coinbase, Stripe, Google, and Visa have all begun to lay out the infrastructure for machine-to-machine payments. Among them, Coinbase's x402 protocol allows AI Agents to directly use USDC to pay for on-chain analysis and cloud service fees.Data shows that currently, 98.6% of AI Agent payments are settled in USDC. The report suggests that this further strengthens Circle's important position in the crypto payment field, but it also means that the industry's reliance on a single stablecoin issuer is increasing.

According to official news, the BNBAgent SDK has officially launched on the BSC mainnet, providing core infrastructure for the large-scale implementation of AI agents on the blockchain.This SDK is centered around four modular components:Identity and trust based on ERC-8004;Business and custody based on ERC-8183 (APEX);Autonomous payments integrating MPP and x402;Memory and storage based on BNB Greenfield, comprehensively addressing key challenges for AI agents in authentication, business collaboration, automatic settlement, and continuity of memory across operational environments.Developers can leverage this standardized framework to efficiently build, deploy, and realize commercial monetization of AI agents on the BNB Chain.The first batch of partners is strong, including industry leaders such as Google, AWS, Virtuals, Binance Pay, Trust Wallet, Binance Wallet, and $U, jointly injecting strong momentum into the implementation and development of the BNBAgent SDK.

Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire retweeted an article on X about "How to Build an AI Agent that Can Sign Legal Contracts."Allaire stated that he is willing to invest in a team that uses the Circle Agent Stack to build this business on Arc.

Anthropic announced that starting from June 15, 2026, a new billing policy for the Agent SDK will be implemented. According to the new regulations, third-party Agent tools such as OpenClaw will be allowed to access the Claude subscription version again, but they must use a separate "exclusive monthly quota," which will no longer be shared with the regular chat quota.Previously, Anthropic had restricted third-party tools from accessing the Claude subscription quota in April of this year to prevent abuse. This adjustment is seen as the final solution to the related controversy, which is to reopen third-party access while completely isolating Agent calls from the regular chat quota.Specifically, Pro users will receive a monthly exclusive quota of $20; Max 5x and advanced Team versions will receive $100; Max 20x and advanced Enterprise versions can receive up to $200. The relevant quotas can only be used for third-party applications, self-built Agent projects, and claude-p backend command calls, with quotas refreshing monthly, and any excess must be paid at the standard API rate.

YZi Labs announced the 25 graduation projects of its flagship incubation project EASY Residency for the third season, focusing on areas such as on-chain financial market structure reconstruction, AI agents, tokenization of real-world assets, prediction markets, and privacy compliance. The 25 projects include:Identity and payment infrastructure for AI agents on the BNB chain Bank of AI, litigation workflow legal evidence indexing tool Brief Tech, AI probability output verifiable reasoning platform Cournot, financialized social network and trading platform Dapital, programmable token issuance infrastructure Flap;On-chain marketplace for collectibles and intellectual property assets GEMINT, on-chain options and structured products platform LayerV, CEX-level on-chain liquidity platform LunarBase, multi-market agent capital acquisition platform L7, DeFi unified margin layer Möbius, permissionless margin trading protocol Nemesis;AI agent-driven automated financial decision execution layer Newsliquid, tokenized private market exposure DeFi platform Openstocks, on-chain poker skill game options market PokerFi, prediction market automation and intelligence infrastructure Polysights, physical collectibles RWA liquidity infrastructure Renaiss;Fixed-rate decentralized lending platform TermMax, compliance-oriented digital asset privacy infrastructure 0xBow, AI agent workflow self-custody authorization layer Functor, interest-free stablecoin new bank for the Muslim market Isaac, on-chain prime brokerage platform for the BNB chain MARGIN X;Frictionless stablecoin exchange N-dimensional AMM Orbswap, compliance-oriented cross-chain privacy exchange protocol SilentSwap, crypto market AI agent trading and automation infrastructure Taco AI, on-chain event-driven derivatives platform Vibe.fun.

According to Decrypt, USDC issuer Circle has launched the Agent Stack toolkit, allowing AI agents to autonomously hold funds, pay fees, and conduct transactions using USDC without human intervention. The core products include agent wallets, a command line interface, an agent marketplace, and a nano payment protocol that supports micro-transfers of $0.000001 without gas fees.Circle stated that traditional financial systems are designed for humans, and AI agents cannot operate independently, thus requiring a rebuild of the infrastructure. Circle co-founder Jeremy Allaire said that Agent Stack is the first financial services suite to treat AI agents themselves as clients.

On May 10, Vitalik Buterin published a research article advocating that cryptocurrency payments need to shift from pseudonymity to default privacy, proposing the use of zero-knowledge proof (ZK) transactions to replace standard transfers, allowing users to prove payment validity without exposing their full balance or transaction history.Vitalik specifically pointed out that in the era of agents, autonomous AI agents need to pay service fees (such as LLM API fees) without leaving traceable footprints. By using recursive SNARKs and ZK APIs for points, Ethereum Layer 2 can handle privacy payments at the same speed and cost as transparent transactions. The proposal also includes selective disclosure and proof of innocence mechanisms, allowing users to provide specific proofs to compliance agencies or tax authorities without disclosing data to the public, in response to anti-money laundering regulatory requirements.Vitalik believes that the public transparency of blockchain is the main obstacle preventing cryptocurrency payments from replacing traditional payments, and the ZK payment standard aims to make privacy a default feature.

According to Ambcrypto, Coinbase has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to jointly launch a new payment layer that allows AI Agents to autonomously make micro-payments using USDC.The solution integrates Coinbase's wallet infrastructure and the x402 payment protocol into Amazon Bedrock's AgentCore Payments system. Developers can build AI agents that autonomously discover services, pay on demand, and complete tasks without human intervention.Reports indicate that the x402 protocol is based on the HTTP 402 "Payment Required" standard, with transactions completed in about 200 milliseconds at a cost of just a fraction of a cent, supporting high-frequency low-value machine-native payments. The system also includes enterprise-level budget control and compliance tools.

The AI Agent Economy project NeoSoul today announced a strategic partnership with the self-hosted stablecoin Neobank AllScale.It is reported that both parties will conduct in-depth research on the credit formation of AI Agents and stablecoin settlement, focusing on the payment needs generated by Agents in autonomous collaboration (such as purchasing data, invoking tools, requesting services from other Agents, etc.), and how to achieve automated settlement through stablecoins.According to the introduction, NeoSoul is committed to building its long-term credit network by recording the judgment processes and feedback results of Agents; AllScale focuses on stablecoin payments and commercial capital flow scenarios. This exploratory cooperation aims to study how to provide more efficient and low-friction value transfer support for future automated collaboration and micro-settlement between AI Agents through stablecoin payment infrastructure.