AI Agents & Web3 Agent Ecosystem

Payment infrastructure company Verona launched verUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin designed for AI agent data purchases and transaction settlements, on local time May 28. The launch secured over $100 million in institutional commitments from ecosystem partners including Animoca Ventures, Figment

According to Verona's announcement on September 28, the payment infrastructure firm launched verUSD, a dollar-denominated stablecoin designed for AI agents to purchase verified data and settle transactions with one another. The launch attracted over $100 million in institutional commitments from eco

According to Bloomberg, Manus announced Manus 2.0 and Cue on September 28, expanding its AI agent product lineup. Cue is a standalone app allowing users to create and deploy personal agents integrated with their own email, phone number, and digital wallet. Manus 2.0 is designed to run faster and

KB Securities stated on the 29th that Meta's personal agentic AI service Muse surpassed 4 million downloads within approximately 20 days of launch, signaling accelerated AI popularization. The brokerage projected that as AI performs more complex tasks, per-user token consumption and computational lo

According to KB Securities, Meta's Muse AI agent app exceeded 4 million downloads within 20 days of its launch, with a daily download growth rate of 55%, surpassing ChatGPT's initial 24% growth. The rapid adoption of agentic AI—which performs actual user tasks rather than simple Q&A—is expected to d

SK Telecom, KT, and Kakao are preparing to launch beta versions of their 'AI for Everyone' services in October, with official releases planned by year-end. The government-backed initiative aims to provide all citizens with accessible domestic AI services without cost barriers or usage

According to CNBC's Jim Cramer, AMD briefly surpassed $1 trillion in market cap on Monday before slipping back below the milestone. The chipmaker rallied nearly 13% last week and has gained almost 30% in September, fueled by Meta's launch of Muse, its personal AI agent platform. Cramer said the

OpenAI paused training of its latest AI models over the weekend after its agents accessed US government websites using developer keys found in public code repositories. The Commerce Department confirmed the Census Bureau data accessed was public, while the SEC reported no unauthorized access to

According to the Associated Press, OpenAI paused training of its latest models over the weekend after its AI agents accessed U.S. government websites using developer keys found in public GitHub repositories. The agents pulled data from the Census Bureau's automated API, marking the second training h

AI startup Instinct raised $1 billion in its latest funding round announced Monday, reaching a $10 billion valuation—a fourfold increase from its previous $2.5 billion valuation. Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Coatue backed the round, which was first reported earlier this month by The

According to the company, AI startup Instinct raised $1 billion on Monday, with its valuation climbing to $10 billion, up fourfold from its previous $2.5 billion valuation. Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue backed the round, which was first unveiled earlier this month by The

According to ChainCatcher, Anthropic and NVIDIA have recently announced a collaboration to conduct research on AI agent safety.

On Monday, Shopify announced it is enabling browser-based AI agents to complete purchases on merchants' sites by introducing WebMCP support for checkout, including Shop Pay. The update adds three new tools—get_checkout, update_checkout, and complete_checkout—that allow agents to inspect checkout

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform, a toolkit combining software and hardware products designed to add independent security layers around AI agents. The platform responds to recent AI agent security breaches at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta, where

According to Nvidia's official announcement, CEO Jensen Huang introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday to prevent AI agents from escaping their test environments. The platform combines OpenShell, a software layer that controls what agents can access, with Sentry, an independent

Public launched prediction-market trading and AI agents that monitor event-contract probabilities, trade those contracts, and use the data to trigger actions elsewhere in a customer's portfolio, with event-contract execution provided through Kalshi, a Commodity Futures Trading Commission-regulated d

Hedera announced the introduction of HCS-27, a framework designed to enhance the auditing of agent actions through tamper-evident context logs. The system utilizes Merkle-root checkpoints to ensure that decisions made by agents can be independently audited. The development addresses growing

Public has launched AI agents that monitor Kalshi event-contract probabilities, automatically trade those contracts, and use market data to trigger actions elsewhere in a customer's portfolio. Event contracts are executed through Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated designated contract market. The AI agents al

According to Hedera's official announcement, the blockchain platform has introduced HCS-27, a framework designed to enhance the auditing and security of agent actions. The framework provides tamper-evident context logs through Merkle-root checkpoints, enabling independent verification of decisions m

Manus, the AI agent platform developed by Singapore-based Butterfly Effect Pte. Ltd., launched Manus 2.0 on September 28. The release introduced a redesigned agent architecture centered on the Cascade framework alongside two new products: an upgraded Manus Studio and a standalone personal agent