Algorand Berlin Hackathon Showcases Practical Agentic Commerce Applications
The move from theoretical AI agents to operational automated commerce took a practical step forward in Berlin, where developers showcased payment-enabled agent tools during a 36-hour build sprint. The Agentic Commerce x402 Hackathon took place June 6 and 7, 2026, at 42 Berlin and focused on real-world transaction capabilities using Algorand.
io.net Reports Over 30 Million Compute Hours and $24M On-Chain Revenue at Three-Year Mark
Decentralized GPU network io.net has reported more than 30 million compute hours delivered as it marks its third anniversary, alongside more than $24 million in accumulated on-chain revenue. The project’s official blog also placed annualized on-chain revenue at approximately $20 million, pointing to sustained infrastructure demand across its first three years of operation.
Fetch.ai Agent Marketplace Reaches 3 Million Agents Milestone
Fetch.ai’s Agent Marketplace has reached nearly 3 million autonomous agents in its hosting environment, marking a major scale milestone for the project’s agentic infrastructure push. Fetch.ai said the agents are now accessible through discovery and deployment tools that let users search, call and integrate them into workflows.
Coinbase Launches Agent Tool for AI-Driven Trades and Payments
Coinbase has introduced Coinbase for Agents, a new product that allows AI agents to connect directly to Coinbase accounts and perform actions such as trading, portfolio management and payments within user-defined limits. The exchange described the product in a company blog post and expanded on the technical setup through its developer documentation.
Identity in the Agentic Era
As autonomous AI agents move from pilots into live operational systems, the identity layer around them is becoming a security problem rather than a back-office detail. Credentials built for human users and static software accounts are struggling to govern systems that can make decisions, call APIs and execute transactions on their own. The central question […]
MetaMask Launches AI Agent Wallet With Built-In Security Controls
MetaMask has launched Agent Wallet, a self-custodial infrastructure product built to let autonomous AI agents interact with decentralized finance protocols under user-defined security limits. The product entered an Early Access Program on June 8, with a wider public rollout planned for later this summer, making AI-controlled on-chain activity a formal product category inside MetaMask’s wallet […]
TRON DAO scales AI fund to $1 billion to back agentic-economy infrastructure
TRON DAO has expanded its artificial intelligence fund from $100 million to $1 billion, a tenfold increase aimed at accelerating what it calls the “agentic economy.” The scale of the increase makes clear that TRON wants to play a central role in financing the infrastructure behind autonomous AI systems rather than simply riding short-term market […]
Bernstein: stablecoins stand to gain from AI-driven payments despite weak early volumes
Bernstein argued that stablecoins could evolve into the internet’s native payment layer as AI agents begin transacting on their own. The core thesis is that programmable digital dollars may become the default settlement tool for machine-to-machine commerce.