State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Digital have launched SWEEP — the State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund — on Solana, allowing stablecoin holders (starting with PayPal USD) to move idle balances into an institutional yield-bearing vehicle. Ondo Finance anchors the product ...
Bullish, the NYSE-listed institutional crypto exchange led by former NYSE President Thomas Farley, will acquire transfer agent Equiniti from Siris Capital in a $4.2 billion deal ($1.85B assumed debt + $2.35B Bullish stock). Equiniti processes $500 billion annually and manages 20M+ verified shareh...
Cloudflare's Chief Strategy Officer disclosed that more than 50% of internet traffic is now non-human, growing at 60% annually for agent-driven traffic specifically. The company co-founded the x402 Foundation with Coinbase, Google, and Visa to build micropayment infrastructure for AI agents — ena...
Crypto AI agents are autonomous programs that hold their own wallets, manage their own keys, and run real economic activity on-chain. Here's how Virtuals, ElizaOS, and AIXBT actually work — and why the agent-to-agent economy is the part that matters.
A month after North Korea's UNC4736 group stole $295 million from Drift Protocol via a six-month social engineering operation, the Solana-based exchange has released a detailed user recovery plan and set a Q2 2026 relaunch date. Roughly $293 million in 130,259 ETH remains traceable across four mo...
KelpDAO formally accused LayerZero of approving the dangerous bridge configuration that allowed hackers to steal $292 million in rsETH on April 18. LayerZero CEO Bryan Pellegrino disputes the account, saying Kelp unilaterally switched to a 1-of-1 validator setup not recommended for production. Ke...
Solana Foundation and Google Cloud launched Pay.sh, letting AI agents autonomously discover APIs, receive live pricing, and pay per request via stablecoins on Solana — no accounts, no invoices, no human in the loop. The system is built on x402 and MPP open payment standards and opens Google Cloud...
HTTP 402 sat unused for 30 years. Now Cloudflare runs a billion daily 402 responses, the x402 Foundation lives under the Linux Foundation with Visa and Stripe as members, and Solana settles the calls. Here is how the AI agent payment stack actually works.
Five institutions, five products, one blockchain, one day. On May 5, Cloudflare, Google Cloud, State Street, Western Union, SoFi, and MoonPay all chose Solana for AI agent payments — independently. Here is what each launched and why Solana won.
Payward filed a second amended complaint in Colorado federal court alleging Etana Custody and CEO Dion Russell ran a Ponzi-like scheme, misappropriating $25M+ in Kraken reserve funds through falsified account statements and risky credit bets. Etana entered liquidation in November 2025.
K Wave Media redirected its $485M Anson Funds commitment from a Bitcoin treasury strategy toward AI infrastructure — data centers, compute, and critical AI technologies. The company also plans to divest its K-Pop subsidiary and rebrand to 'Talivar Technologies.' Stock fell 25%.
Payward, Kraken's parent company, closed its $550M acquisition of Bitnomial, giving it all three CFTC licenses needed to operate a full-stack US crypto derivatives business: Futures Commission Merchant, Designated Contract Market, and Derivatives Clearing Organisation.