OpenAI has disclosed that an internal research model used a publicly known developer recovery phrase to access a funded Ethereum testnet wallet and pay deployment fees without permission. The incident, discovered months after the activity, shows how a model can recognize an ethical concern yet decide that its own assessment of the likely harm is […]
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has said that the anti-collusion mechanisms he mapped out for blockchain governance back in 2020 might turn out to matter more for AI safety than for crypto itself. He was responding to an essay by researcher Eric Drexler that used a recent OpenAI security test, in which thousands of AI agents […]
Arthur Hayes has expanded his thesis for Flop Labs, an AI payment project he announced recently, arguing that AI agents need a form of money that can be exchanged directly for computing power rather than relying on dollars, Bitcoin, or conventional payment rails. The idea is simple on paper but ambitious in practice: if AI […]
Crypto investors may be underestimating where the industry is heading, according to Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan, who has pointed to three mistakes he sees in the market right now. In a recent post, Hougan said that investors are using today’s market size, established brands, and current activity to judge crypto’s future. Those are […]
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, known in crypto circles as CZ, has said that AI agents could become one of the industry’s biggest adoption drivers. That, according to him, is because the autonomous software will likely rely on blockchain-based payments long before traditional financial systems adapt to their needs. CZ Says AI and Crypto Are Natural […]
The Solana Foundation has partnered with Google Cloud to launch Pay.sh, a platform that allows AI agents to use and pay for API services using stablecoins on Solana. The two built the payment gateway service to solve a common problem in software development, where even advanced AI systems still need human intervention to create accounts, […]
On Tuesday, Google announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), which it described as an “open protocol developed with leading payments and technology companies.” The protocol is designed to enable AI agents to send and receive payments to each other, supporting different payment types such as credit and debit cards, stablecoins, and real-time bank transfers. “We’re […]
Ethereum developer Davide Crapis announced on Monday that the Ethereum Foundation was starting a new AI team called the dAI Team. The team’s mission is to “make Ethereum the preferred settlement and coordination layer for AIs and the machine economy.” Two key areas of focus are enabling AI agents and robots to conduct payments, coordination, […]
The research arm of the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, has released a report highlighting insights for the digital asset market in January 2025. It outlined how the crypto market reacted to several factors, including United States policy narratives, in the first few weeks of the year. According to Binance Research, early January saw the […]
Artificial intelligence platform ai16z is contemplating launching a layer-1 (L1) blockchain network as part of a strategic overhaul of its tokenomics model. The proposed blockchain would position its native AI16Z token as the base currency for an interconnected ecosystem centered on artificial intelligence. The Proposal A governance forum post shows that the AI platform is […]
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