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. The agent will operate within its own isolated portfolio, without visibility or access into other holdings. Or, it can simply use your main Coinbase account. Coinbase for Agents will only be able to touch what you’ve given it specific permission to do. Soon, users will be able to set exact…
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Gemini Exchange Adds Agentic Trading Tools
Permits use of Claude, ChatGPT and other AIs
The Gemini crypto exchange has launched what it says is the first AI agentic trading tool available directly through a regulated, U.S.-based exchange. Agentic AI is a growing trend in the crypto sector and beyond, with users expected to allow AI bots access to their financial activities at a rapidly expanding pace. “Whether you’re a developer building a custom strategy from scratch or a trader who wants to plug in an AI agent and get started, you can now connect to Gemini… to use Claude, ChatGPT, or any other AI to automate your trading in a way that’s as simple or as powerful as you need it to be,” the…
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Two of Worldcoin's iris scanning orbs flank a promotional poster at the ETHGlobal conference in New YorkControversial Worldcoin Scans Retinas at ETH NYC, Skips Over its Messy History
Is Big Brother attempting to recruit all the young devs?
In our ongoing series exploring the increasing intersections of blockchain and AI, we’ve highlighted both novel approaches to combining the two exponential technologies in sectors like healthcare that impact everyone, as well as how blockchain can ensure both privacy and transparency. The latter is particularly important given the risks posed by AI — its potential to eliminate millions of jobs, including those previously deemed more immune to technology, the acceleration of deep fakes that threaten our increasingly slippery hold on what is true, the reduction in the ability of humans to control weapons of mass destruction and more. (And as evidence that these are collective concerns, when you type “biggest…
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Revolutionizing Healthcare with Blockchain and AI
How companies are ensuring privacy, transparency and efficiency in critical areas
Part two of this series exploring the growing intersections of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) illustrated how this combination is transforming the blockchain ecosystem. The convergence is growing across a number of industries, and healthcare is a prime example. It’s also a fast-growing one. According to Morgan Stanley, the industry’s average estimated budget allocation to AI is projected to grow from 5.7% in 2022 to 10.5% in 2024. Similarly, blockchain’s market size in healthcare was valued at $1.97 billion in 2022 and is expected to expand at an eye-popping CAGR of 68% from 2023 to 2030. These growth predictions are unsurprising since, used properly, blockchain and AI can be excellent…
