Coinbase has launched Coinbase for Agents, a tool that allows AI agents to make payments, execute strategies, and trade crypto for users of the leading exchange. Coinbase for Agents will connect users’ favorite agents like ChapGPT or Claude directly to their Coinbase account. Operating within limits they control, the agents can now do both financial reasoning and execution, Coinbase said.…
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Mastercard Launches Payment System for AI Agents
Agent Pay for Machines supports many payment types, from cards to stablecoins
Mastercard has unveiled a new payment system for AI agents, designed to permit secure and permissioned transactions to be settled across its payment network at machine speed. Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) envisions a future in which businesses create services AI agents can buy and use. Operating at machine speed, these agents will transact continuously with each other at high…
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Humanity Protocol Exploited for $36M
Multisig wallets were compromised, allowing attacker to mint $H tokens
Humanity Protocol said poorly protected multisignature wallet keys have been exploited to the tune of $36 million, driving the proof-of-humanity protocol’s $H token down as much as 85% today. The hack was first spotted Monday evening by onchain analyst Specter, who initially reported that 17 wallets holding the $H token had been drained of $5 million. Several hours later that…
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Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase Launch Tokenized Deposits
16 banks join forces to fight stablecoins’ ability to poach savings accounts
A group of America’s biggest banks are launching tokenized deposits in order to stave off the threat that stablecoins will poach depositors. Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase are among the 16 major banks that have joined forces with The Clearing House to build a tokenized deposit network to enable 24/7 blockchain-based settlement of bank deposits. Banks have been…
