Haun Ventures has closed a $1 billion fund split evenly between early and later-stage vehicles, targeting next-gen financial infrastructure, tokenized assets, and the emerging agentic economy where AI systems transact on behalf of humans.
Walrus launched MemWal, an SDK giving AI agents encrypted, verifiable, portable memory on its decentralized network. OpenClaw and NemoClaw integrations ship the same week, targeting an addressable market analysts size at roughly $70B.
Tether-backed Oobit launched Agent Cards — virtual Visa cards funded from a USDT treasury and issued per AI agent. Spend policies are server-enforced, every transaction logged in real time. KYB-verified onboarding rolls out through Q2 2026.
Stripe launched Link, a digital wallet for both humans and autonomous AI agents, at its Sessions 2026 conference. Agents access funds through an OAuth flow with per-transaction approvals and per-agent virtual cards issued via Stripe's new Issuing for agents.
An attacker drained roughly 13.71 billion SWEAT tokens (~65% of total supply, ~$3.5M) from top holder accounts on Near in a 30-second window. Blockaid flagged it; the SWEAT team paused the contract; MEXC and Rhea Finance froze attacker liquidity. All external account balances were fully restored.
OKX rolled out the Agent Payments Protocol (APP), an open standard letting AI agents run full commercial cycles on-chain — from quotes and escrow to disputes — with backing from AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Base, Solana, Sui, Aptos, the Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap, Paxos and Nansen.
TON Tech rolled out Agentic Wallets that let AI agents execute on-chain transfers, swaps, and staking inside Telegram chats — funded once, operating within hard limits, no human approval per transaction.
KBC, BBVA, DZ Bank and Societe Generale are now wiring BTC and ETH directly into existing brokerage and payments rails under MiCA. EU crypto ownership is projected to hit ~25% by 2030, up from 9% in 2024.
Litecoin rolled back 13 blocks — about 32 minutes of chain history — after attackers exploited a MWEB consensus bug. The Litecoin Foundation called it a zero-day, but CoinDesk found the fix was privately developed between March 19 and 26.
Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan argues crypto's always-on, programmable, identity-light design fits AI agents far better than legacy finance, with humans guiding the strategy and agents running the engine.
Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says AI agents need programmable money, with roughly $48M flowing through the x402 payments standard so far and about 95% of those transactions settling on Base.
A zero-day in Litecoin's MimbleWimble Extension Block let attackers slip an invalid MWEB peg-out past outdated mining nodes, triggering a 13-block reorg that wiped roughly three hours of history.