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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform: "The agent business has not yet been fully priced by the market. Machine-to-machine payments will drive demand for digital dollars beyond current expectations. The scale of the agent economy may surpass that of the human economy, and Coinbase is building infrastructure for both."

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has outlined Mastercard's cryptocurrency business partners, which now exceed 100, covering multiple key areas such as public chains, stablecoins, trading platforms, risk control services, and payment infrastructure. Unlike Visa and PayPal's more "selective partnership" strategy, Mastercard aims to become the connective layer for all payment links.Structurally, this network can be understood as a "multi-node collaborative system":Assets and Settlement: Through stablecoin issuers like Circle and Paxos, as well as multiple public chains, it undertakes on-chain assets and settlement capabilities.Connection and Circulation: Integrating cross-chain protocols, custody services, and payment channels to allow different chains and assets to flow within its system.Compliance and Security: Introducing risk control service providers like TRM Labs and Elliptic to build compliance capabilities aimed at the global regulatory environment.Applications and Reach: Collaborating with exchanges, wallets, and financial institutions to transform on-chain capabilities into user-perceived payment and consumption scenarios.Therefore, Mastercard's strategy is essentially not about selecting suppliers but about lowering access thresholds and expanding network externalities. It connects more upstream chains and asset issuers while attracting payment institutions and financial terminals downstream, making its strategy more aligned with the center of the next-generation payment system. Related compilation: 【Mastercard Crypto Partner Network Compilation (Continuously Updated)】Cryptocurrency projects actively showcasing their partner networks have become a key way to enhance transparency and market trust. It is reported that RootData welcomes Web3 project parties to claim data and continues to track and open more project business relationship disclosure channels. The platform has continuously released multiple editions of the cryptocurrency project ecosystem map, nominating Web3 ecosystem partners for upstream clients such as Visa, Stripe, and Coinbase.If you wish to nominate your project in future ecosystem maps, please fill out the 【RootData 2026 Industry Ecosystem Mapping】 form to supplement your important clients and partners.

Liquid Capital (formerly LD Capital) founder Yi Lihua stated on Twitter that wherever there are people, there are grievances, and wherever there are grievances, there is a community. He has heard these community stories from the parties involved multiple times, but we can only be bystanders.Yi Lihua called for the parties involved (CZ, Xu Mingxing, Li Lin, Sun Yuchen, He Yi) to resolve this historical grievance and work together to build the industry and prices. He mentioned that gossip and grievances sound exciting, but wallets are more important to everyone.It is reported that CZ mentioned past interactions with Li Lin, Xu Mingxing, and others in his new book, and discussions about the related events are currently trending on platform X.

NASDAQ-listed company AVAX One Technology (AVX) announced the advancement of its AI infrastructure strategy. The company has signed a FEED plan for a 10MW AI/HPC microgrid data center, located in Alberta, Canada, leveraging the local low-cost natural gas power to create a high-cost-performance, scalable dedicated AI computing facility. The project is designed by BlueFlare and is one of the first AI computing centers in the area.At the same time, the company invested less than $500,000 to purchase 220 Bitmain S21 Pro mining machines, increasing Alberta's computing power from 150 PH/s to over 200 PH/s. This move serves as a transitional cash flow source during the construction period of the AI center, achieving a dual-track layout of "mining + AI computing power" to quickly monetize existing power capacity.

According to a report by the WSJ, Meta Platforms (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes that everyone inside and outside the company will eventually have their own personal AI agent, starting with himself. According to insiders, Zuckerberg is developing a CEO agent to help him manage work affairs.The agent is still in development and is helping Zuckerberg access information more quickly. For example, it retrieves responses that would typically require layers of communication to obtain. The use of AI tools has rapidly spread within Meta, partly because it has now become a consideration in employee performance evaluations.Insiders revealed that Meta's internal message board is filled with employees sharing newly discovered AI cases and the new tools they are building with AI. Employees have begun using personal agent tools like My Claw, which can access their chat histories and work documents and communicate on their behalf with colleagues (or their colleagues' personal agents). There is even a group on the internal message board where employee personal agents communicate with each other.

According to The Information, Tencent is building a new AI intelligence entity for the WeChat application.

According to official news, OKX has officially released the Agent Trade Kit, an open-source MCP toolkit designed for AI-native trading workflows, covering the complete link from market discovery to strategy execution. Currently, the Agent Trade Kit has 83 tools, making it the CEX AI product with the most tools in the industry. Among them, options AI trading, algorithmic delegation, and bot strategy management are exclusive capabilities of OKX, which also features a built-in simulation mode that allows users to validate strategies in a zero-risk environment. In terms of security, the Agent Trade Kit is fully open-source, and the API Key exists only locally, with the AI having no access to the keys throughout the process.It is reported that the OKX Agent Trade Kit and OKX Onchain OS cover both on-chain and CEX scenarios, making it the most comprehensive AI trading ecosystem in the industry.

According to Cointelegraph, PsiQuantum has launched the construction of a fault-tolerant quantum computing facility in Chicago, aiming for 1 million quantum bits, using a photonic quantum computing approach that leverages mature semiconductor, fiber optic, and cooling technologies for scalability. The construction is progressing rapidly, with 500 tons of steel structure erected in just a few days. The first phase is expected to be partially completed around 2027, with the ultimate goal of becoming operational around 2028.The facility's computing power is equivalent to hundreds of billions of traditional computers, primarily serving the next generation of AI supercomputing. The crypto community is currently focused on its potential ability to crack Bitcoin. PsiQuantum co-founder Terry Rudolph has explicitly stated that there is no intention to use quantum computing to attack Bitcoin, and the company's scale makes it impossible to conduct such activities secretly. Recently, discussions about quantum threats have intensified, and the Bitcoin community is already discussing a hard fork as a response. Currently, the world's largest quantum computer has only 6,100 qubits, far from reaching the practical threshold, posing limited short-term threats to Bitcoin.

The digital asset trading platform Gate officially launched Gate for AI, introducing the industry's first unified AI entry point that integrates five major capabilities—CEX, DEX, wallets, real-time information, and on-chain data—under the same interface system.Gate for AI adopts a dual-layer capability structure. In this architecture, MCP provides standardized basic interfaces, covering functions such as market data, account information, trade execution, and on-chain data queries, enabling AI to quickly access and utilize platform capabilities; Skills encapsulates higher-level strategy modules based on this, such as market scanning, position range assessment, and risk analysis, helping AI make more complex trading decisions.In addition, Gate for AI supports multi-platform calls, lowering the usage threshold and catering to users with different needs. This release marks the upgrade of the exchange's capabilities from interface products to directly callable AI infrastructure, pushing digital asset trading into the era of Agent-native.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently published a series of technical articles discussing the future roadmap of Ethereum. In the latest article, he focused on analyzing the potential centralization risks in the block building pipeline and proposed solutions such as expanding the FOCIL mechanism and introducing encrypted mempools to enhance the network's censorship resistance.According to the plan, Ethereum will launch the Glamsterdam upgrade in the first half of 2026, which will introduce the enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS) mechanism. This mechanism allows block proposers to outsource block construction to a permissionless open market, reducing the centralization risk at the staking level. However, Buterin pointed out that while ePBS can prevent the concentration of block building rights among a few staking pools, the block construction itself may still become concentrated among a few high-tier participants due to specialization and maximizing MEV, leading to a new trend of centralization.To address this issue, Ethereum developers plan to simultaneously launch the FOCIL (Forward Obligatory Commitment to Inclusion Lists) mechanism in the Glamsterdam upgrade. The initial version will randomly select 16 witnesses and mandate that specific transactions must be included in the block; otherwise, the block will be rejected. Buterin stated that even if block construction is controlled by a single malicious entity, FOCIL can still ensure that transactions cannot be completely censored.Additionally, Buterin explored the possibility of expanding the scale of FOCIL ("big FOCIL") and introducing encrypted mempools to further mitigate the issues of information asymmetry and power concentration in the block building process. Recently, Buterin has been vocal about topics such as the quantum resistance roadmap, execution layer improvements, and block building mechanisms, indicating that the core Ethereum development team is conducting systematic design and risk assessment for the next phase of protocol upgrades.