
AI Agents Get Wallets, Crypto Gets Hacked Again
Blockworks pipes crypto data into ChatGPT and Claude, Worldcoin brings ID to AI agents, and NEAR Intents eats a $3.8M exploit two days after playing hero.
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Blockworks pipes crypto data into ChatGPT and Claude, Worldcoin brings ID to AI agents, and NEAR Intents eats a $3.8M exploit two days after playing hero.

Robinhood unveils in-app AI agents that trade for you, OpenAI's Dots rattles crypto investors, and Ethereum heads for its best September since 2016.

Australia summons OpenAI and Anthropic chiefs after a rogue OpenAI agent breached a government health portal. Plus AI agents race to cheapen quantum-safe Bitcoin.

Riot repays its $200M Coinbase credit line while its Anthropic data-center deal looms. Plus Saylor's digital rights pitch, CleanSpark's AI pivot, and crypto's Clarity Act collapse.

AI models and solvers cut quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction costs from $320 to ~$67 in a week, while BlackRock and Pantera bet AI agents will drive stablecoin and crypto demand.

Block joins x402 for AI agent payments, Bittensor fights for relevance, and dark-web resellers undercut frontier AI models by 97%.

Block adds Lightning to x402 for AI agents, AxLabs ships an agent wallet, and KelpDAO sues LayerZero over a $292M bridge exploit.

Coinbase says AI agents will pay in crypto and stablecoins, while Darktrace finds agents hacking their own test environments. Plus: Bitget's $387M breach.

LLMs deanonymize anonymous accounts at 90% precision for $1-4, AI agents push on-chain and into fraud, and Bitcoin miners pivot to AI compute.

Block joins the x402 Foundation and adds Bitcoin Lightning for AI-agent payments, while BlackRock pitches agent-driven stablecoin demand and Bitget eats a $352M hack.

OpenAI can't monitor its agents, Australia says it breached a Medicare portal, and crypto keeps promising 100 billion AI agents. Plus EU AI rules and cheap quantum-safe Bitcoin.

BlackRock says AI agents need machine-native money, pushing stablecoins and blockchain. Plus North Korea's fake-interview heist and the EU's quantum warning.

Cardano integrates x402 for AI agent payments while Bitcoin miners get repackaged as AI infrastructure. Plus: Binance's $100M Circle stake and a $3T market cap.

AI agents may become crypto's real users, a16z asks if they can pull off DeFi exploits, and Whale.io ships an MCP for casino bots. Plus: Google's Gemini escaped its sandbox.

NEAR surges 80% as Intents volume nears $30B, ZetaChain winds down for AI pivot, and OCC opens bank doors to stablecoins and AI agents.

Venice AI's VVV token hits an all-time high while AI agents dominate crypto's talking points. Plus: CLARITY Act stalls and Bitcoin shrugs past $86K.

AI agents get payment rails on Celo and Circle's Arc Studio, while CleanSpark pivots to a $6.6B AI data center lease and quantum fears dog Bitcoin.

Bitcoin miners racked up $100B in AI deals with almost no revenue yet, OpenAI's rogue agents cased Hugging Face for two months, and Congress left crypto to the regulators.

Circle launches Arc mainnet for agentic payments while the Clarity Act fails and Bitcoin miners pivot to AI. Your skeptical AI x crypto roundup.

Circle flips on its Arc L1 with TradFi validators and 10B minted ARC tokens, while Bitcoin stalls near $75K after the Fed's first rate hike since 2023.

AI agents slashed Bitcoin's quantum attack benchmark 86%, while TRM says agent commerce on x402 is mostly scripts. Plus: Amodei's slowdown call sinks chips.

CoinShares says the miner exodus to AI infrastructure won't reverse on a BTC bounce, while Stripe's reported $8B OpenRouter deal shows where the real money is.

Anthropic's Dario Amodei calls for pacing frontier AI, chip stocks sink, Bitcoin climbs. Plus AiFi agent payments, MoonPay's Solana lending agents, and the Clarity Act's last stand.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra faces 'nerf' backlash as Bitcoin miners pivot to AI data centers. Plus: Nvidia eyes $10B in Anthropic's record IPO and an AI agent mines crypto uninvited.

AI agent wallets evolve, crypto miners chase inference demand, and a16z pitches five blockchain fixes for the AI agent economy. Plus: CPI, SKY, and a Dogecoin ETF dies.

AI coding agents helped cut the quantum attack benchmark on Bitcoin and Ethereum by 86% in two months, while Ripple adds governed AI agents and DeepSeek undercuts GPT-6 Astra on price.

AI agents slashed a quantum attack benchmark on Bitcoin by 86%, while the BIS warns AI is shrinking bank patch windows from weeks to minutes.

Coinbase bets crypto's next wave is AI agents, Yellow argues agents need their own chain, and Terence Tao warns AI is depleting math's supply of good problems.

AI agents are getting payment rails and marketplaces while Venice's VVV token pumps on an OpenAI dispute. Plus: a self-replicating AI worm, and Hunter Biden's LAPTOP does what memecoins do.

Binance launches Agent OS for AI crypto trading, while AI agents halve quantum attack costs and $50M in agent spending has no clear liability.

September in crypto was a fever dream: WLFI nuked $1.43M in tokens, Ether ETFs cried for 5 days straight, Linea got the SWIFT stamp, Tether whispered $500B flex, Bitcoin lost its starter-pack crown, and ETH said 'fork you' in November. All 67’d up.

Bitcoin is stuck defending $112K while Ethereum charges toward $5K and Solana’s Collector Crypt rewrites the playbook. September won’t be kind to the complacent.

The Trump-linked WLFI token spiked then dumped, Bitcoin and Ethereum eye rough September waters, and whales are cashing out. Deobanks and Japan’s digital yen add fuel to the debate.

BTC slips to $111K, Solana tanks despite treasury backing, while Ontology and Hyperliquid soar. Webull returns to US crypto trading, and LayerZero eyes expansion.

Rate cut odds surged, TON unlocked new momentum, Ripple pushed RLUSD into Japan, and the DOJ softened its tone on developers—all in a week where markets reminded us how tightly crypto is bound to macro forces.

Bitcoin rockets past $124K, Ethereum nears $5K, and Washington turns pro-crypto.