
AI Agents Get a Wallet: Cathie Wood, BlackRock Eye Machine Payments
Cathie Wood says follow where AI agents spend money, BlackRock flags machine payment demand, and Ethereum's zkAPI goes live on mainnet.
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Cathie Wood says follow where AI agents spend money, BlackRock flags machine payment demand, and Ethereum's zkAPI goes live on mainnet.

Ethereum Foundation launches zkAPI to unlink AI prompts from payers, BitGo's CEO warns of Lehman-sized custody risk, and NEAR Intents eats a $3.8M hack.

Ethereum Foundation launches zkAPI for private AI payments, Nvidia hits $5.7T, and Blast dies at $32M TVL. Today's AI x crypto roundup.

Ethereum Foundation launches zkAPI for anonymous AI payments, OpenAI fires safety researchers and flags 100+ orgs over rogue agents, plus Q3 crypto fees hit $3.3B.

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.

An arXiv paper claims sub-cent, sub-millisecond on-chain AI inference in a single EVM slot. Plus: SEC clears token buybacks, Vitalik calls Hegota the last 'normal' fork, and Bitget's $388M hack meets THORChain's refusal to censor.

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.

IMD's agent swarm pumps, BlackRock bets on AI agents driving stablecoin demand, and Bitget gets spoofed out of $388M. Your skeptical AI x crypto roundup.

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.

Ethereum rolls out ERC-8004 for AI agent identity, Coinbase's CEO wants agent-native finance, and 17,000 DeFi bots still lose to humans.

Circle's Arc mainnet goes live, AI agents threaten to melt blockspace, and Anthropic plays catch-up with OpenAI. Your skeptical crypto roundup.

Avalanche warns AI agents could crunch L1 capacity, Vitalik says AI won't doom crypto security, and Blockworks cuts risk alerts to 5 seconds with agents.

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.

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.

ETF inflows, staking resilience, and L2 traction point to a rebound over the next 90 days. This is a shakeout—not a breakdown.

Sequencer revenue and activity paint a nuanced picture for devs and traders.