AI Agents & Web3 Agent Ecosystem

Deriv appointed Rotimi Akinyele as Chief Technology Officer, promoting the former Vice President of Security to lead the company's engineering organization. Akinyele joined Deriv in July 2024 and has since overseen security, data, and workflow automation across compliance, finance, trading, and

Deriv has appointed Rotimi Akinyele as Chief Technology Officer to lead the company's engineering organization and AI-first transformation. Akinyele, who joined Deriv in July 2024 as Vice President of Security, has expanded his remit to oversee automation initiatives across compliance, finance,

RWA WEEK Singapore 2026 concluded on October 9 with a focus on institutional-scale infrastructure for real-world asset tokenization. The week's centerpiece, RWA SUMMIT, held at Marina One West Tower, drew over 1,200 attendees, more than 60 speakers, and 200+ investors. The shift in focus from

Tencent Hunyuan recently announced the launch of WorkForge, a scalable framework designed for long-context work agents that leverages real-world resources to build verifiable training environments. The framework covers 40 professional domains and encompasses 16,700 AI training environments. WorkFor

According to ChainCatcher, multiple major U.S. banks including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup have discovered unauthorized AI agents accessing customer accounts. Some agents attempted to execute independent operations without permission. Morgan Stanley ha

Hashed, a global venture capital firm specializing in blockchain and artificial intelligence, launched the second cohort of its AI startup support program, Nitro by Hashed, on Oct. 22 at Hashed Lounge in Seoul's Gangnam district. The firm announced a shift from batch-based selection to rolling

Walmart introduced its Agent Gateway platform and Walmart Agent Profiles feature on Wednesday, October 21, positioning itself differently from competitor Amazon by embracing AI-powered shopping. The new platform allows OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Meta's Muse to directly connect to Walmart

According to Foresight News, Mojo AI trading platform launched its iOS app on App Store on October 22, enabling users to convert trading ideas into Agents on iPhone, review plans, and track activity within the app. TestFlight beta users must uninstall the test version before installing the new

According to TechCrunch, Walmart launched Agent Gateway on October 22, enabling approved AI agents to search products and complete purchases for users. The company plans to roll out independent authorization controls in November, allowing consumers to manage each AI agent's shopping permissions and

According to Guru Club, on October 22, eight Chinese ministries including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the "Industrial Foundation Capability Enhancement 15th Five-Year Plan," which emphasizes strengthening research into general-purpose and industry-specific large

Anthropic announced Wednesday, October 21, the preview launch of Claude Duet, an AI agent designed for small businesses and professionals to compete with Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots. Claude Duet provides daily summaries, tracks linked applications, and performs tasks including creating dashboards,

According to PANews, on October 22, Arc (Circle's Layer 1 blockchain) launched Arc Portal (portal.arc.io), a new ecosystem hub. Users can conduct asset swaps, transfers, and yield operations through the portal, as well as browse applications built on Arc. The platform also supports AI agents with

At GTC Berlin on October 21, Nvidia unveiled OpenShell Reference Architecture, a design for running AI agents on enterprise and edge systems with monitoring and policy controls. The architecture builds on Nvidia's OpenShell runtime and combines Vera Rubin infrastructure, Vera CPUs, and BlueField

According to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg during the company's Q3 earnings call on Wednesday, Meta's personal AI agent Muse has exceeded 10 million users since its September launch. Zuckerberg stated the application's growth momentum remains strong, with shopping as the most common use case. Over

According to Guru Club, Anthropic launched Claude Duet on Wednesday, an AI agent designed to run continuously in the background, proactively identify user needs, and execute tasks autonomously. Unlike traditional chatbots that respond to user commands, Claude Duet aggregates information across

According to Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's earnings call today, 10 million people have already set up Muse agents. Zuckerberg noted that about 25% of users who have set up Muse use it on any given day, and retention appears to improve the longer users engage with the agent.

Meta disclosed during its third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday that its AI app Muse has surpassed 10 million users, with shopping emerging as a dominant use case. CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that approximately 25% of Muse users now engage with the app daily, while over a quarter of active shopp

Grayscale stated on Oct. 21 that graphics processing unit rental rates have reached record highs as demand for artificial intelligence agents rises rapidly. The crypto asset manager noted that AI computing-related stocks remain near one-year lows despite the surge in GPU rental demand. Grayscale hig