Where AI infrastructure meets decentralized finance — AI oracles, on-chain inference, ZKML, prediction markets, and agent-driven DeFi strategies.
The newest stories at the AI and DeFi intersection.
At Consensus Miami, PayPal's May Zabaneh and Google Cloud's Richard Widmann declared AI agents structurally locked out of banking — making PYUSD, AP2, and multi-party custody the inevitable default stack for machine-to-machine commerce.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins, speaking at SCSP AI+ Expo on May 8, framed crypto and AI as one regulatory challenge — the first time a sitting Chair has proposed unified rulemaking for onchain exchanges, AI-driven settlement, broker definitions, and crypto vaults in a single agenda.
AI agents can't fill out a Stripe form. This developer primer walks through agentic payments end-to-end: why stablecoins beat credit cards for autonomous software, how to pick USDC over USDT or PYUSD, how x402 and EIP-3009 actually work, a minimal TypeScript demo on Base, and a production risk ch...
Kalshi's $1B Series F at a $22B valuation — doubling in five months — arrives as institutional trading volume surged 800% and annualized volume tripled to $178B. The raise signals prediction markets are transitioning from retail novelty into regulated Wall Street infrastructure, with Morgan Stanl...
The first stablecoin wave was remittances and trading. The second wave belongs to machines. Three events this week — AWS × Coinbase × Stripe, CZ's BNB rail thesis, and Anchorage's 20-deep issuance queue — prove the machine settlement layer is no longer a whitepaper. It's infrastructure.
Q1 2026: $394M GAAP loss, transaction revenue -40% YoY despite an all-time-high 8.6% market share. Two stories live inside one earnings print — the slow death of the trading-fee model and the early-stage emergence of a stablecoin-and-agent-infrastructure business that could be worth far more.
Our editors' top picks on AI-meets-DeFi.
The first stablecoin wave was remittances and trading. The second wave belongs to machines. Three events this week — AWS × Coinbase × Stripe, CZ's BNB rail thesis, and Anchorage's 20-deep issuance queue — prove the machine settlement layer is no longer a whitepaper. It's infrastructure.
Q1 2026: $394M GAAP loss, transaction revenue -40% YoY despite an all-time-high 8.6% market share. Two stories live inside one earnings print — the slow death of the trading-fee model and the early-stage emergence of a stablecoin-and-agent-infrastructure business that could be worth far more.
A compromised third-party AI tool gave attackers access to Vercel's internal systems and customer environment variables — sending Web3 teams scrambling to rotate API keys and exposing a new class of supply chain risk hiding in plain sight.
Nava raised $8.3M in seed funding led by Polychain and Archetype to build a blockchain verification layer for AI-powered financial agents — addressing $2.1B in unauthorized AI transactions in 2025.
Polymarket, Kalshi, and the rise of AI-powered event contracts.
Kalshi's $1B Series F at a $22B valuation — doubling in five months — arrives as institutional trading volume surged 800% and annualized volume tripled to $178B. The raise signals prediction markets are transitioning from retail novelty into regulated Wall Street infrastructure, with Morgan Stanl...
Polymarket + Bitget Wallet Q1 2026 report: $25.7B monthly volume in March, 1.29M active wallets, annualized run-rate $240B. Retail users are returning 4x more often and trading across more categories — the 'casino' label is losing accuracy.
Gemini secured a CFTC Derivatives Clearing Organization license on April 29 — Gemini Olympus, LLC is now an approved DCO. Combined with its existing DCM authorization, the Winklevoss exchange now has a full-stack U.S. trading license to clear and settle derivatives and prediction markets.
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.
Stablecoin infrastructure for AI agents, payments, and on-chain yield.
At Consensus Miami, PayPal's May Zabaneh and Google Cloud's Richard Widmann declared AI agents structurally locked out of banking — making PYUSD, AP2, and multi-party custody the inevitable default stack for machine-to-machine commerce.
AI agents can't fill out a Stripe form. This developer primer walks through agentic payments end-to-end: why stablecoins beat credit cards for autonomous software, how to pick USDC over USDT or PYUSD, how x402 and EIP-3009 actually work, a minimal TypeScript demo on Base, and a production risk ch...
The first stablecoin wave was remittances and trading. The second wave belongs to machines. Three events this week — AWS × Coinbase × Stripe, CZ's BNB rail thesis, and Anchorage's 20-deep issuance queue — prove the machine settlement layer is no longer a whitepaper. It's infrastructure.
Q1 2026: $394M GAAP loss, transaction revenue -40% YoY despite an all-time-high 8.6% market share. Two stories live inside one earnings print — the slow death of the trading-fee model and the early-stage emergence of a stablecoin-and-agent-infrastructure business that could be worth far more.
Amazon Web Services, Coinbase, and Stripe launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments on May 7 — the first managed cloud infrastructure letting autonomous AI agents pay for APIs, data, and services in USDC at 200ms finality. Here's why it rewires the entire agentic economy.
Meta has rolled out USDC stablecoin payouts to creators in Colombia and the Philippines via Stripe, with on-chain delivery on Solana and Polygon. Four years after shelving Libra under regulatory pressure, Meta is back in stablecoins — through the safest possible wrapper.
Agents executing trades, managing positions, and reshaping DeFi.
At Consensus Miami, PayPal's May Zabaneh and Google Cloud's Richard Widmann declared AI agents structurally locked out of banking — making PYUSD, AP2, and multi-party custody the inevitable default stack for machine-to-machine commerce.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins, speaking at SCSP AI+ Expo on May 8, framed crypto and AI as one regulatory challenge — the first time a sitting Chair has proposed unified rulemaking for onchain exchanges, AI-driven settlement, broker definitions, and crypto vaults in a single agenda.
AI agents can't fill out a Stripe form. This developer primer walks through agentic payments end-to-end: why stablecoins beat credit cards for autonomous software, how to pick USDC over USDT or PYUSD, how x402 and EIP-3009 actually work, a minimal TypeScript demo on Base, and a production risk ch...
The first stablecoin wave was remittances and trading. The second wave belongs to machines. Three events this week — AWS × Coinbase × Stripe, CZ's BNB rail thesis, and Anchorage's 20-deep issuance queue — prove the machine settlement layer is no longer a whitepaper. It's infrastructure.
Q1 2026: $394M GAAP loss, transaction revenue -40% YoY despite an all-time-high 8.6% market share. Two stories live inside one earnings print — the slow death of the trading-fee model and the early-stage emergence of a stablecoin-and-agent-infrastructure business that could be worth far more.
Amazon Web Services, Coinbase, and Stripe launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments on May 7 — the first managed cloud infrastructure letting autonomous AI agents pay for APIs, data, and services in USDC at 200ms finality. Here's why it rewires the entire agentic economy.
Chainlink, Pyth, AI oracles, and the data layer connecting AI to chains.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins, speaking at SCSP AI+ Expo on May 8, framed crypto and AI as one regulatory challenge — the first time a sitting Chair has proposed unified rulemaking for onchain exchanges, AI-driven settlement, broker definitions, and crypto vaults in a single agenda.
Meta has rolled out USDC stablecoin payouts to creators in Colombia and the Philippines via Stripe, with on-chain delivery on Solana and Polygon. Four years after shelving Libra under regulatory pressure, Meta is back in stablecoins — through the safest possible wrapper.