AI Agents & Web3 Agent Ecosystem

According to CNBC, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said on July 2 that the company is expanding AI-based investment services to enable individual investors to access the same automated trading capabilities historically available only to institutional investors. Tenev stated that agent AI's goal is to

According to ChainCatcher, Moonbeam announced a new protocol transforming the Polkadot parachain into a decentralized AI Agent communication and settlement network for on-chain economy. GLMR token will migrate 1:1 to Base and become a native ERC-20 token. The cross-chain migration is now open

According to QianWen Platform, personalized interactive AI agents and user-created agent features will be taken offline on July 10, 2026, due to system upgrades and maintenance. Users will lose access to agent configuration details and conversation history once the shutdown takes

On July 5, Moonbeam announced its transition from the Polkadot parachain to Base, alongside the launch of an AI agent framework. GLMR token holders are required to bridge their tokens to Base before July 31. The exact launch timeline for the AI agent platform has not been

According to ChainCatcher, DeSci protocol Bio Protocol announced the launch of OpenLabs, a coordination layer for human and AI agent collaboration in scientific research. The platform aims to convert scientific ideas into funded execution projects. OpenLabs introduces a USDC-based yield mechanism

THEA closed an $8 million strategic funding round to expand its behavioral AI infrastructure. Maven 11 Capital and Spartan Group led the round, which included Manifold Trading, Fisher8 Capital, Hack VC, and angel investors from Galois Capital and other crypto-native groups. The funding will

According to THEA, the company has closed an $8 million strategic funding round to advance Thea Network, a settlement layer for AI services built on Solana. The round included institutional investors Maven 11 Capital, Spartan Group, Manifold Trading, Fisher8 Capital, and Hack VC, alongside angel inv

Autonomous AI agents require programmable payment infrastructure available around the clock, according to Alex Kozenko, WhiteBIT's chief marketing officer, in statements to Bitcoin.com News this week. Kozenko argued that crypto infrastructure naturally fits this need because autonomous

According to a Bitcoin Policy Institute study released March 3, 2026, 36 frontier AI models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, OpenAI and others favored Bitcoin in 48.3% of responses across 9,072 monetary scenarios, with stablecoins following at 33.2%. More than 90% of responses favored digitally

According to China Tech Board Daily, Doupin will discontinue its AI agent feature on July 15, 2026, citing product functionality adjustments. The announcement comes as Bytedance continues to optimize its AI product

According to ChainCatcher, Moonbeam announced on July 4 that it will transform into a decentralized AI agent communication and settlement network, with GLMR migrating to Base at a 1:1 ratio. The cross-chain migration is now open with a deadline of July 31, 2026. Users holding GLMR on centralized

According to Qianwen Platform, the company's personified interactive AI agents and user-created AI agent features will shut down on July 10, 2026, as part of a system upgrade and maintenance effort. Users will lose access to their agent configuration information and historical conversation records o

On July 2, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev told CNBC that AI-powered trading agents will emerge as a new category. He noted that automated trading, high-frequency trading, and AI-driven complex strategies have historically been dominated by institutional investors and Wall Street firms, with limited

According to ChainCatcher, B.AI announced a strategic partnership with Tencent Cloud to build enterprise-grade financial infrastructure for the AI agent era. The collaboration will integrate B.AI's experience in on-chain finance with Tencent Cloud's cloud computing

Meta Chief AI Officer Alexander Wang clarified today (July 3) that CEO Mark Zuckerberg's remarks about slower-than-expected AI agent development refer to industry-wide progress, not Meta specifically. Wang announced that Meta will roll out a new update to Muse Spark, enhancing the model's

Alibaba Damo Academy, in collaboration with Renmin University of China and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently unveiled ElementsClaw, an AI agent for superconductor discovery. The agent predicted 68,000 possible superconducting materials, of which 4 novel materials have been

According to CNBC, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated in a recent interview that AI agents will soon achieve trading capabilities comparable to human traders. Tenev noted that institutional trading has already been largely automated and AI-driven, and Robinhood's goal is to democratize access to such c