AI Agents & Web3 Agent Ecosystem

On July 15, Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter multimodal AI model trained from scratch with full weights available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license. The model scores 74.1% on MCP Atlas—measuring how reliably AI agents complete real-world tasks using

According to The Information, a16z announced investment in Runta, an AI Agent safety startup, on July 17, with the specific investment amount not disclosed. The company is developing "AI Agent guardianship" infrastructure to help enterprises manage AI Agent permissions, security risks, and

According to CoinMarketCap, Ondo (ONDO) led today's gains among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap, rising 15.71% to $0.3858. Other top gainers included Pyth Network (PYTH) up 8.77% to $0.05144, Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) up 7.26% to $0.6543, Mantle (MNT) up 5.21% to $0.4516, and

According to ChainCatcher, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced an investment in Runta, an AI agent security startup. The investment amount was not disclosed. Runta develops infrastructure to help enterprises manage AI agents' permissions, security risks, and behavioral boundaries, preventing data l

According to BlockBeats, Sleepagotchi secured $6.5 million in funding on July 16 to launch its decentralized AI-powered health application. Investors include 6th Man Ventures, Collab+Currency, Sfermion, 1kx, Alliance, and GSR. The project has surpassed 2 million users and generated over $100,000 in

According to ChainCatcher, Ledger has launched Ledger Agent Stack, an open-source toolkit that enables AI agents to interact with crypto wallets by reading balances, preparing transactions, and suggesting operations. All transactions require user approval on Ledger hardware devices. The company

Nvidia unveiled its Cosmos 3 Edge AI model on Wednesday, designed for robots and vision AI agents to perceive and navigate physical environments in real time. The announcement came during CEO Jensen Huang's two-day visit to Japan, where the company is forming a coalition with local industrial

According to ChainCatcher, Virtuals Agents on Robinhood Chain surpassed $100 million in trading volume within a week of launch. Over 2,440 agents have been deployed on the platform, raising $1.8 million for developers from companies including Google and General Dynamics. Robinhood Chain has

According to Visa, on Wednesday the company and analytics firm Artemis released a report titled "Agentic Payments from the Ground Up," highlighting how stablecoins will facilitate micro-commerce in the age of the AI agentic economy. The report identifies two categories of agentic commerce: macro-com

VeChain launched VeWorld.ai on July 16, 2026, a no-code AI agent marketplace that enables users to build, list, and monetize AI agents without technical expertise. The platform is accessible at no cost, with no fees to build, list, or test a first agent. VeWorld.ai extends the VeWorld ecosystem, VeC

According to MPost, VeChain officially launched VeWorld.ai on July 16, a free no-code AI agent marketplace that enables anyone to build, list, and monetize AI agents without technical expertise. The platform offers no fees to build, list, or test a first agent. Users can register via social login or

Kingsoft released two AI office agents on July 15 at its 2026 AI Productivity Conference: Lingxi Pro (for individual users) and WPS Comate (for organizations). The launches mark the company's strategic shift from content generation to results delivery in its AI office

According to internal sources, Baidu Wenku and Netdisk will launch an upgraded version of GenFlow for closed beta testing in late July. The new version will feature standalone web and desktop clients, positioning itself as a multi-platform Agent platform to serve professional productivity

According to Odaily, Visa and Artemis jointly released research report "Agentic Payments from the Ground Up" recently, revealing that AI agentic payments are transitioning from theory to real-world commerce. The report categorizes agentic payments into two types: macro commerce, where AI agents com

According to Odaily, Cobo was announced as an official partner of OPC Hub at Hong Kong Cyberport's inaugural Web4.0 and Agent Innovation Summit. The company joins Alibaba Cloud, AWS, NVIDIA, Dell, Lenovo, and BytePlus as strategic partners. Cobo will provide blockchain infrastructure support to