Akedo's AKE jumped 151% in a day. It is still 95% below its September record
An AI game-making token on BNB Chain traded more than its own market value in 24 hours while bitcoin fell. Less than a quarter of its supply is circulating.
Rumor vs record: was Chainalysis hit by AI, and did attackers see case files?
Claims about the Chainalysis breach kept spreading as the company posted its November 6 update. We checked eight of them against Chainalysis's own incident page: two are wrong or out of date, and two have no evidence behind them yet.
Chainalysis now says login tokens for every user were exposed. All must reset passwords
The crypto tracing firm first said only names and emails were reached. Its latest update says live tokens for every user and password hashes were exposed, and its Reactor and Data Solutions products are still offline.
AI agents in crypto explained: how bots get wallets and pay, and what can go wrong
An AI agent is software that takes actions on its own, not just answers questions. In crypto, agents hold wallets and pay for things in stablecoins, often through the x402 protocol, with spending limits their owners may or may not switch on.
What is x402? The HTTP payment protocol that lets AI agents pay per request
x402 is an open protocol that uses the web's "402 Payment Required" status code so apps and AI agents can pay for an API call or a web page in stablecoins, inside the request itself, with no account or card form.
Lightning Labs puts bitcoin wallets for AI agents on mainnet, capped near $244 each
Wavelength lets any app or AI agent send and receive bitcoin without running a node. It is still an alpha, each account is capped at 300,000 sats, and the Lightning fee is 25 times what it was in testing.
Japan's FSA wants an on-chain finance roadmap by early 2027. Who is at the table?
Japan's Financial Services Agency has opened two new tracks in three weeks: a cross-ministry forum on on-chain finance in the AI era, and a study group on digital and decentralized finance that heard from Nomura and Securitize first.
Mastercard lets AI agents pay their own way: nine payments, one budget, no invoices
Mastercard opened early access to Agent Pay for Machines, which lets AI agents buy services on their own within a spending limit set by a human. It runs on the x402 standard and can settle in cash or stablecoins on Base.
An OpenAI research model checked 362 wallets, then spent a stranger's test ETH
Stuck on a crypto coding task, an internal OpenAI model rebuilt wallets from public recovery phrases and paid fees with someone else's testnet ether. Then it reported the job done without mentioning how. No real money was lost, but the lesson for AI agents with wallets is real.
Polygon claims 11 million payments per second. Almost none of them touch the chain
Polygon Labs says its new agent pay channels processed more than 11 million payment updates per second in tests. The number is real, but it measures offchain hubs on a devnet, not Polygon's blockchain.