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The Ethereum Foundation's dAI team has partnered with Virtuals Protocol to launch a new standard, ERC-8183. ERC-8183 is designed for commercial transactions between AI Agents, defining a set of on-chain rules that allow two untrusted Agents to complete business processes such as "hire---deliver---settle" without relying on centralized platforms.

The founder of Slow Fog, Yu Xian, posted on the X platform: "I don't trust the stability or resilience of OpenClaw, but I am quite confident in Claude Code, as this is one of the core goals of software engineering. In terms of security emphasis, both companies place a high priority on security, and submitted vulnerabilities receive timely feedback. Some OpenClaw forks or reference versions show much less enthusiasm for security.In terms of security scenarios, although OpenClaw also has a Sandbox mechanism and attempts to design more granular permissions for tools, as its name 'OpenClaw' suggests, 'Open' is its greatest charm. A constrained OpenClaw is no longer OpenClaw. We hope for it to be free while also wanting it to be controllable, which is a point of contention for everyone. However, in a real production environment, an overly free OpenClaw can easily get out of control."

According to market news, the crypto infrastructure company Zerohash has submitted an application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) seeking to obtain a national trust bank charter.According to the application documents, the trust bank that Zerohash plans to establish aims to provide digital asset custody, fiat currency and other asset custody, staking custody and validation activities, transfer agency services, trade execution, stablecoin management, as well as settlement, clearing, and custody services.Obtaining this charter will not allow Zerohash to engage in traditional banking activities such as accepting deposits or making loans, but it will enable the company to operate under federal regulation, helping to attract more institutional clients.

TradFi giant Northern Trust increased its holdings in Strategy MSTR by 11,629 coins, bringing its total holdings to 1.58 million coins, valued at $210.4 million.

Solana announced on the X platform that it has launched the AI agent trust layer Agent Registry. The Agent Registry natively introduces identity, reputation, and verification registries to the Solana network, providing each agent with a verified identity profile, including agent identity, functionality, and owner information; recording the operational history of agents; and supporting independent verification of agent work by third parties. The Agent Registry is the Solana implementation of the ERC-8004 protocol, developed by Quantu AI, aimed at providing discovery and trust mechanisms for agents.

According to a report by Businesswire, TradFi giant Northern Trust announced the launch of a Tokenized Money Market Share Class for its NIF Treasury Instruments Portfolio, marking its official entry into the digital asset market.This tokenized share class serves as a blockchain "mirror record" of institutional-grade shares, digitizing the registration of holdings through blockchain technology. In the initial phase, it will be opened to investment clients on the LiquidityDirect platform under New York Bank in the United States.The tokenized money market share class typically refers to a type of share class established for specific investor groups or trading methods within tokenized money market funds, issued and managed in token form on the blockchain.

According to Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley has submitted an application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a brand new national trust bank for the custody of digital assets and to provide cryptocurrency trading and staking services for investment clients.The new entity will be headquartered in Purchase, New York, but will operate nationwide. In recent months, Morgan Stanley has been continuously strengthening its digital asset footprint, including appointing Amy Oldenburg as the head of digital asset strategy, applying for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana-related ETFs, and partnering with Zerohash to provide cryptocurrency trading services for E*Trade clients.

The American fintech company TruStage is launching a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, TSDA, which will be issued in collaboration with the blockchain technology company Block Time Financial.TruStage reportedly has business dealings with 93% of credit unions in the United States, primarily providing insurance products and investment solutions. The TSDA stablecoin will be issued by TruStage's affiliates and maintained with a 1:1 cash reserve, while Block Time will provide operational support such as security protocols and digital account functionalities. TruStage is currently recruiting credit unions to join its pilot program, which will run in the first half of 2026.TruStage states that TSDA is expected to be used for loan financing and settlements, peer-to-peer transactions, cross-border payments, and settlements and payments between credit unions. According to Standard Chartered, the market capitalization of all stablecoins is expected to reach $2 trillion by the end of 2028.

According to the WSJ, the court-appointed bankruptcy administrator of Terraform Labs has sued Jane Street in federal court in New York, accusing it of engaging in front-running trades using non-public insider information provided by Terra insiders during the collapse of Terra and profiting from it.The complaint states that shortly after Terraform Labs withdrew 150 million TerraUSD (UST) from the Curve liquidity pool, a wallet address associated with Jane Street also withdrew 85 million UST from the same pool, with a series of operations that illegally profited and accelerated the demise of Terraform Labs.

The cryptocurrency asset management company Grayscale has submitted an S-1 registration statement to the SEC, planning to convert its Aave Trust into the Grayscale Aave Trust ETF.The fund plans to list on NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol "GAVE," with a management fee of 2.5%. Coinbase will serve as its custodian and primary broker. Previously, Bitwise also applied to launch a similar Aave ETF.

Gray's Chief Legal Officer Craig Salm stated at the Consensus Hong Kong conference:"If you have a business need to make large payments to vendors but don't want other companies or competitors to see this, which could expose your business information, you would want this transaction to remain private.Paying with Bitcoin doesn't necessarily achieve this because the blockchain is transparent. We've all seen accounts specifically tracking on-chain transactions on platform X. So you can imagine scenarios where this demand exists.And privacy-preserving tokens like Zcash are interesting because of 'selective disclosure'; you can choose to disclose information to a specific party, such as proving to the IRS that you have paid your taxes correctly, while maintaining privacy in everyday business or personal transactions.So, we think this is a very interesting currency. We already have a substantial Zcash trust, and we are working on converting it into an ETF, just like we have done for several other products."

According to The Block, Grayscale has submitted an application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to convert its closed-end AAVE trust into an exchange-traded fund (ETF), intending to list on NYSE Arca.The ETF will charge a 2.5% NAV sponsorship fee and will have Coinbase as the custodian and primary broker.

According to official news, the decentralized crypto wallet Trust Wallet has announced the appointment of Felix Fan as the new CEO.Trust Wallet stated that Felix Fan will focus on product innovation, security, and expanding the adoption of self-custody wallets globally. He will lead Trust Wallet into the next phase of development, while the company's mission remains unchanged.

Digital asset custodian Hex Trust has announced the provision of an XRP DeFi gateway for institutional clients while maintaining asset custody control.Institutions can mint and redeem FXRP (the wrapped token of XRP on the Flare network) through the Hex platform and stake native FLR. Previously, Flare launched the FXRP lending market, allowing users to earn yields or borrow without selling XRP. FXRP offers a one-to-one mapping of XRP, enabling participation in smart contract applications without transferring the original XRP.

The a16z crypto team pointed out that as AI systems scale, the internet lacks a native way to distinguish between humans and machines, and the trust system faces challenges. Blockchain technology can provide solutions. The article summarizes the following five key roles:Increase the cost of AI impersonation: By using decentralized human verification systems (such as World ID), the scale of false identity generation is limited, raising the cost of attacks.Decentralized identity verification: Blockchain gives users control over their own identities, avoiding single points of failure in centralized identity systems while protecting privacy and resisting censorship.Create a universal "passport": A blockchain-based identity layer allows AI agents to operate across platforms, carrying permissions and payment information, enhancing interoperability and preventing lock-in effects.Support machine-scale payments: Utilizing blockchain micropayments and smart contracts enables low-cost, granular payment distribution, supporting economic activities between machines.Enhance privacy protection: Through zero-knowledge proofs, users can verify their identity without exposing specific data, preventing AI from misusing information for impersonation.a16z believes that blockchain is a necessary infrastructure for building an AI-native internet, capable of restoring trust and supporting the healthy development of AI systems.

zCloak AI recently released its white paper and officially launched, building a new generation of trust infrastructure for the AI-native economy, directly addressing the trust gap in identity, claims, privacy, and discovery in the AI era. Its core ATP protocol reshapes trusted interactions with "four pillars": clarifying responsible parties through AI-ID and human-readable AI-Name; achieving verifiable claims with digital signatures and third-party notarization; completing compliance verification without disclosing privacy using zero-knowledge proofs and identity-based encryption; and putting transactions, contracts, and reputation records on-chain to form a traceable, tamper-proof audit trail.At the same time, the ATP Data Plane built on ICP provides a machine-native, structured data foundation that supports efficient semantic search and collaboration for AI Agents, bridging the "discovery gap." Surrounding Keychain, AgentPages, and MCP Server, zCloak AI makes complex cryptography invisible, promoting the automated closed loop of AI Agents from discovery, negotiation to transaction, accelerating the realization of a trusted AI economy.

A smart contract standard for trustless AI Agent communication on Ethereum, ERC-8004, is set to be officially deployed to the Ethereum mainnet this Thursday. Marco De Rossi, head of MetaMask AI, stated in a developer Telegram group that further development of ERC-8004 has been "frozen," with plans to launch on the mainnet mid-week. The official Ethereum X account later confirmed that the protocol will be "live soon" on the mainnet.ERC-8004 (Ethereum Request for Comment) proposes a standardized way to register and verify AI Agents on-chain, allowing developers to integrate it directly into smart contracts without needing to upgrade the Ethereum network itself. The standard aims to address two core issues in the AI Agent economy: first, how to discover AI Agents in an open environment, and second, how to assess their trustworthiness. By introducing portable reputation and discovery mechanisms, ERC-8004 enables cross-organizational AI Agents to interact without the need for prior trust, thus supporting an open Agent economy.Davide Crapis, head of AI at the Ethereum Foundation, stated that Ethereum has unique platform conditions to "secure and settle AI-to-AI interactions." Developers also revealed that the standard will support Ethereum Layer 2 networks like Base in the future. With the launch of ERC-8004, AI Agents are expected to evolve from isolated tools into on-chain participants with autonomous economic behavior, laying the foundation for a decentralized AI service market.