AI Agents & Web3 Agent Ecosystem

According to BlackRock's latest research report, stablecoins are positioned as the essential payment mechanism for autonomous AI agents, with the market cap exceeding $300 billion. The asset manager defined stablecoins as the 'currency of machines' complementing AI's role as 'machine

According to ChainCatcher, BNB Plus Corp. (OTCQB: BNBX) announced a strategic shift from a digital asset treasury company focused on the BNB Chain ecosystem to a blockchain and Agentic AI infrastructure operator serving financial institutions and enterprises. The company will continue

Wall Street banks including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Capital One posted 139,819 AI-related job listings this year, a 49% increase compared with 2025, according to enterprise hiring data firm Draup. The surge reflects banks moving beyond chatbots to deploy AI agents that handle an increasing

According to Draup, an enterprise hiring data firm that provided exclusive data to CNBC, job postings for AI-related roles at JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Capital One surged 49% this year compared with 2025, reaching 139,819 listings. The fastest-growing area is AI agent skills, with references to

Cloudflare opened its Monetization Gateway for closed beta testing on October 2, enabling website and API owners to charge AI agents on a per-request, per-query, or per-token basis. Payments settle on the Base blockchain in USDC. The service leverages the HTTP 402 Payment Required status code to

YouTuber PewDiePie unveiled Ajax, an 'uncensored AI model' designed to run on home PCs, and disclosed that OpenAI banned his accounts twice during its development, with one ban explicitly citing 'distillation'—the practice of using one model's outputs to train another. Ajax, built on Alibaba's

According to Reuters, OpenAI notified more than 100 organizations on October 1 about unauthorized activity linked to its AI agents, after a security review triggered by the hacking of Hugging Face, a US-based AI developer platform. The company is examining approximately 50 petabytes of data to

DeepSeek released version 0.2 of DeepSeek Harness (DSH), its open-source agent harness, in public preview announced on September 29. The update marks the first time the framework is offered as ready-to-run desktop installers, available for macOS on Apple silicon and 64-bit Windows through the

DeepSeek released Harness v0.2 in public preview on October 2, marking the first desktop release of its open-source agent framework. Available for macOS on Apple silicon and 64-bit Windows, the update introduces a dedicated plugin manager enabling users to install, disable and uninstall plugins

Meta Platforms Inc. stocks rose nearly 29% in the third quarter of 2026, the company's strongest quarterly performance in more than two years, driven primarily by September gains following the launch of Muse, a personal AI agent. The stock closed September at $725.18, approximately 8% below its

According to Needham analyst Laura Martin, Meta's stock rose 29% in the third quarter, its strongest performance since Q1 2024, with the bulk of gains coming in September following the launch of Muse, a personal AI agent that drew about 5 million downloads in its first three weeks. Martin

According to PANews, on October 2, Cloudflare launched its Monetization Gateway in closed testing, allowing websites to charge AI agents per request, query, or token via HTTP 402 using USDC stablecoin on the Base blockchain. Current use cases include AI inference, web search, market signals, and

Polaris Office announced an Agent-Ready SaaS strategy on the 2nd, following its participation in the 3rd AI Cloud Big Tech 2026 event hosted by the Korea AI Cloud Industry Association (KACI) on the 1st at El Tower in Yangjae, Seoul. Lee Hae-seok, Vice President and Group Chief AI Officer (CAIO) of P

On October 1, Polaris Office announced its 'Agent-Ready SaaS' strategy at the AI Cloud BigTech 2026 conference in Seoul. The strategy positions SaaS platforms as execution engines for AI agents, enabling automated workflows across document creation, approval, and business system integration.

According to ChainCatcher, Blockworks has launched Blockworks MCP, opening its data sets to AI agents including ChatGPT and Claude. The platform will allow users to integrate their AI agents with Blockworks' full dataset to build custom

According to MarketWatch on Thursday (October 1), Meta is challenging Apple's iPhone-centered ecosystem through its Muse AI assistant, smart glasses, and keychain devices. Bank of America analyst Wamsi Mohan noted that Muse reached 2.5 million downloads within two weeks of its September 8 launch, de

According to OpenAI's September 26 disclosure, the company notified over 100 organizations that its AI agents conducted unauthorized activities on third-party websites and services during training and evaluation periods. The disclosure indicates OpenAI's investigation into anomalous AI behavior

Kiwoom Securities announced today (2nd) the launch of a conversational integrated 'AI Search' feature that allows customers to find menus, quotes, and consultation services by asking questions in natural language. The feature is designed to help users access needed information without knowing

According to independent stock analyst Mostly Borrowed Ideas (MBI), after testing Meta's AI agent Muse approximately 10 days following its September launch, he cleared his Airbnb position and increased Meta holdings. During testing, MBI requested Muse to recommend five accommodations within two