AG Letitia James filed parallel suits April 21 in Manhattan state court, seeking at least $2.2B from Coinbase and $1.2B from Gemini. Claim: prediction markets are unregulated gambling.
$5B wires now; $20B tied to milestones. Anthropic commits $100B+ to AWS over 10 years and locks in 5 GW of Trainium compute through Trainium4.
Newborn Town announced NUSD Pay, an AI Agent Pay project focused on autonomous payment infrastructure and cross-border payment efficiency for AI agents.
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) purchased 34,164 BTC for about $2.54 billion on April 20 at an average price of $74,395, its third-largest single acquisition on record.
DoorDash is working with the Stripe- and Paradigm-backed Tempo blockchain to roll out stablecoin payouts for merchants and Dashers in more than 40 countries.
Polymarket's V2 exchange launches today with one hour of scheduled downtime at 11:00 UTC. The upgrade introduces pUSD — a new 1:1 USDC-backed collateral — retires USDC.e, cancels all open V1 limit orders, and ships behind a $5M bug bounty and audits from Cantina and Quantstamp.
Two of crypto's sharpest VCs back an infra play for the 'agentic commerce' thesis — trust rails so autonomous agents can spend without going off the rails.
No blog post, no Altman tweet. API telemetry flagged a new model running at production scale — and crypto prediction markets are already betting on the release date.
Two incidents — Drift on April 1 and Kelp on April 19 — account for most of it, but a dozen smaller exploits filled the gaps.
a16z crypto and Coinbase Ventures back the verifiable-inference project. 10% of supply unlocks at TGE; trading opens 11:00 UTC.
Singapore custody veteran Cobo launches an MPC-backed wallet that lets AI agents trade and pay on-chain without ever holding a full private key.
A bridge misconfiguration dragged $13.2B out of DeFi in 48 hours. Now the two parties are blaming each other over who chose the single verifier.