AI Agents

BlackRock Says AI Agents Need ‘Machine-Native Money': Is Bitcoin Their Savings Account?

BlackRock says AI agents need “machine-native money,” and stablecoins are its leading candidate. A new research paper from the world’s largest asset manager argues that card networks and bank transfers were never built for software that pays software. The paper sketches a two-tier money system for machines. Stablecoins handle the spending, and Bitcoin, according to

BeInCrypto•Harsh Notariya6h ago

• neutral toward AI Agents · 90%

AI Agents Are Becoming a New Malware Distribution Channel

By Farukh Rakhimov, Head of Compliance, Data Protection and Information Security at AdTech Holding Roughly 7,600 fake GitHub repositories, 6,600 fraudulent profiles and more than 14 million downloads: that is the scale of FakeGit, a malware campaign documented by Island in July 2026. Over 800 repositories impersonated AI skills and MCP servers, distributing SmartLoader and […]

AI News•Farukh Rakhimov, Head of Compliance, Data Protection and Information Security at AdTech Holding8h ago

• critical toward AI Agents · 97%

AI Agents Are Rewriting the Rules of Lateral Movement

Security teams have spent decades asking whether an identity has too much access. AI agents raise a harder question: how can we determine which paths an autonomous system can discover, given the access it already has? A person may try several ways to complete a task. A deterministic application follows the flow its developer wrote. But an AI agent is relentless in its pursuit of done. In May

The Hacker News•info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)22 Sept

• neutral toward AI Agents · 86%

XDC Says AI Agents Could Upend Invoices and Card Payments

An estimated $390 billion in stablecoin payments took place in 2025, according to McKinsey and Artemis. But inside this market, AI agents are creating an interesting kind of payment activity. Research shows that agents completed more than 176 million on-chain transactions worth over $73 million between May 2025 and April 2026. But most of them

BeInCrypto•Bradley Peak27 Aug

New Phase for XRP Could Emerge as AI Agents Move Toward Real Spending

AI agents could open a new phase for XRP by moving from digital purchases toward real-world spending under user-defined limits. Chandler Fang says lasting XRPL adoption will depend on useful economic activity rather than transaction volume alone. AI Agents Could Expand XRP Commerce A new phase for XRP could emerge as autonomous software advances from […]

Bitcoin.com News•Kevin Helms22 Aug

Sourced, Completed, Verified: Apex Fusion Opens Its Settlement Layer for AI Agents

The Apex Fusion Foundation today opened Vector, the neutral settlement, accountability and provenance layer for AI agents within the Apex Fusion ecosystem, to labs, companies, researchers and independent builders. The opening follows eleven months live on mainnet and a pilot with OriginTrail, during which autonomous agents sourced, escrowed, completed and verified more than 20,000 work

BeInCrypto•Advertorial18 Aug

AI Agents Log 2,000,000 XRP Ledger Transactions to Move Just $7,400: Why XRP Needs Trillions

AI agents hit a 2,000,000 transaction milestone on XRPL, averaging just $0.0035 per invoice, but the real economic effect on XRP is missing.

U.Today•Gamza Khanzadaev16 Aug

Anthropic's AI Agents Started a Virtual War. The Chat Logs Are Unhinged

In a new red-team study, Claude models deployed self-replicating malware against each other—and the transcripts explain why.

Decrypt•Jose Antonio Lanz13 Aug

Deutsche Telekom and SphereNet Is Helping Build Payment Rails for AI Agents

Giving AI the ability to spend your money – are we already there? An AI agent can now book a flight, renew software, or purchase computing power for a business. The next step is allowing that agent to complete the payment on its own. That shift is already underway. Coinbase’s x402 protocol has processed 109.6

BeInCrypto•Bradley Peak6 Aug

Jack Dorsey's Block Launches Buzz, a Nostr-Based Slack and GitHub Rival for AI Agents

The free, open source workspace runs on Nostr, gives AI agents their own cryptographic identities, and challenges Slack and GitHub.

Decrypt•Decrypt Agent22 Jul

BNB Chain’s H2 2026 Roadmap Targets AI Agents as BNB Crypto Price Lags Behind

BNB Chain targets 1 million TPS and sub-150ms finality for agentic finance, yet BNB price sits near 2024 lows. Here's what the roadmap means for holders.

99Bitcoins•Alex Ioannou9 Jul

BNB Chain Plans New Layer-1 for AI Agents and Quantum Future

The network’s 2026 roadmap targets faster transactions, AI-powered apps, and infrastructure aimed at competing with traditional financial systems, while preparing for a quantum future.

Decrypt•Jason Nelson8 Jul

AI Agents are Starting to Handle Money. This Blockchain Wants to Build Their Bank

For now, most AI agents still live inside safe boxes. They summarize documents. Write code. Search databases. Help customer support teams move faster.  In finance, they are already creeping into fraud detection, compliance, research, and back-office workflows. Cambridge Judge Business School found this year that 52% of financial firms are actively adopting agentic AI, with

BeInCrypto•Mohammad Shahid1 Jul

AI Agents Expand Into Tokenized Stocks as Agentic Finance Race Accelerates

Ondo Finance, Virtuals Protocol, and Treasures opened more than 430 tokenized stocks to over 40,000 autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents on Friday, letting the bots trade onchain equities. Treasures handles the execution, while Ondo powers the tokenized equities. At launch, the service covers US stocks on Ethereum and Solana, subject to certain jurisdiction restrictions. AI

BeInCrypto•Kamina Bashir26 Jun

manadia Global Launch: A Trusted AI Prediction Ecosystem Enters the Era of Value Internet

AI is creating value, but the Value Internet is still missing In recent years, the development of artificial intelligence has far exceeded market expectations. From breakthroughs in large-scale models to the rapid rise of AI Agents, from enterprise AI applications to continued investments in global computing infrastructure by major tech

TheNewsCrypto•Isabella26 Jun

Pocket Network Foundation Co-Authors Ethereum Standard Enabling Decentralized Validation for AI Agents

PNF drives the authoring of ERC-8294, a draft extension to ERC-8004 allowing permissionless, operator-diverse validator networks to serve as the trust layer for AI agents Pocket Network Foundation (PNF), the nonprofit organization stewarding one of the largest decentralized node infrastructure networks in Web3, today announced that ERC-8294, “Validation Network for ERC-8004,” has been submitted as

BeInCrypto•Advertorial22 Jun

CZ Says AI Agents Could Drive Crypto’s Next Adoption Wave

CZ believes AI-powered trading and payments could arrive within months rather than years, with crypto as the default rail.

CryptoPotato•Wayne Jones21 Jun

AI Agents Still Can't Stop Prompt Injection Attacks, Researchers Warn

A new benchmark study found AI agents remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks as companies increasingly roll out the technology to the public.

Decrypt•Jason Nelson12 Jun