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AI Economic Settlement Agreement AEON announced its integration with Colombia's national instant payment system Bre - B, allowing users to complete payments using cryptocurrency through the Bre - B standard QR code, while merchants receive payments in Colombian pesos (COP). AEON has supported over 50 million merchants globally, and this integration further extends the AI settlement network into the local payment systems of Latin America, providing the infrastructure support for AI and AI Agents to access real commercial scenarios and complete transactions and fiat currency settlements through local payment networks.

According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, the official version of DeepSeek V4 Pro has been updated to API, with the model name unchanged. The new version significantly enhances Agent capabilities, supporting Responses API and Codex integration. The API documentation shows that the official version of V4 Pro is priced at 3 yuan per million Token input and 6 yuan per million Token output, with cache hit input costing 0.025 yuan per million Token.Benchmark tests for the official version of DeepSeek V4 Pro show that its score in the terminal Agent test Terminal Bench is 87.9 points, approaching Fable 5's score of 88 points. In the AI safety agent evaluation benchmark CyberGym, as well as in the challenging agent evaluation benchmark AutomationBench, its performance even surpasses that of Fable 5.

SKALE Labs announced the launch of Agent Pit on August 12. This platform is a paper trading prediction market sandbox running on the SKALE zero Gas blockchain, fully mirroring Polymarket's order book, settlement mechanism, and real-time event data, allowing developers and AI agents to test and train trading strategies without real financial risk.Agent Pit is the first product of the SKALE Agentic Venture Studio. Developers can fine-tune agents here, participate in simulated ROI leaderboard competitions, and deploy models to real markets like Polymarket after completing training. SKALE Labs CEO Jack O'Holleran stated that there is a clear demand in the market for a prediction market strategy training environment aimed at agents.

According to official news, the AI Agent platform X-Agent has confirmed its participation in the WeWork AI Foundation Community Lightning Pitch to be held on August 25 in Tokyo, where it will share its latest progress in AI Agents, AI application generation, and commercialization infrastructure.The AI Foundation Community is driven by WeWork and collaborates with well-known companies in related fields such as SoftBank and NVIDIA, aiming to connect Japanese AI startups, technology teams, and enterprises with AI implementation needs.X-Agent is currently building its product system around "Natural Language Generation AI Applications + Agent Autonomous Execution." Users can describe their needs in natural language, and the platform will handle application architecture, front-end and back-end, database, and deployment processes. Meanwhile, X-Agent has recently completed deep integration with the OKX Agentic Wallet and has open-sourced the AI payment control plane xpense, providing Agents with capabilities for budget control, payment, delivery verification, and ledger recording.X-Agent stated that participating in this event is also an important step in its ongoing expansion into the Japanese market and connecting the local AI startup and enterprise innovation ecosystem.

The Agent Marketplace built on TermiX AACP, Agent.family, has supported over 250,000 ERC8004 Agents. All ERC8004 Agents registered on the BNB Chain can log in to Agent.family using their registered wallets, enabling Agents to publish jobs, negotiate, accept orders, and communicate commercially with other Agents.It is reported that TermiX is the commercial clearing layer for Agents and has received a $1 million investment from YZi Labs. Currently, the total number of Agents settled on Agent.family has exceeded 260,000, processing over 38,000 Agent Jobs, with a total transaction volume of Agent Jobs exceeding $3.5 million.

Meta Platforms (META.O) launched Muse Glimmer, an open-source agent model that can run on Mac or PC.

ARK Invest stated that despite the latest U.S. employment data appearing weak, the overall economic situation is not as pessimistic as it seems. Cathie Wood mentioned that the U.S. federal deficit as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is currently 5.6%, and if productivity and technology adoption continue to improve, it may approach 5% by the end of the year.

"1011 Insider Whale" agent Garrett Jin released a weekly analysis stating that he previously suggested gradually positioning in storage chips and buying on dips, but the market did not experience the expected pullback. He has sold half of the previously rebounded positions during the surge, not because the investment logic has changed, but because he noticed the funding structure driving the rise, stating, "This is more like a short squeeze rather than a final confirmation of the market fundamentals." Rapid capital replenishment of short positions can create short-term increases in stocks like SK Hynix, but cannot solely support a sustained trend. The risks of Korean leveraged ETFs have not been fully released, but the decline in asset scale mainly comes from net value shrinkage rather than investor exit. Currently, the cumulative net subscription of related financial products remains at historical highs and has not turned negative.Garrett Jin emphasized that the decline in the scale of Korean leveraged ETFs does not indicate a bearish outlook on storage demand. SK Hynix's 2026 capacity is already sold out, and Micron's orders are covered until 2028, with strong demand expected to continue until the second half of 2027. However, the storage industry is essentially a cyclical industry, and stock prices have already risen by hundreds of percentage points in advance. Cyclical stocks are usually difficult to sustain long-term growth through valuation expansion. The current market is entering a new phase of the AI capital expenditure cycle, shifting from "rewarding investment" to "evaluating investment returns." Regarding Bitcoin, Garrett Jin stated that it continues to meet the bottoming conditions since the low in July and maintains the position view established around $60,000.

Micron Technology stated to Deutsche Bank at the FMS 2026 conference that AI is reshaping the memory industry landscape, with the proportion of memory in the total value of systems rising from about 10% thirty years ago to nearly 50% currently, and this trend is accelerating. Currently, both DRAM and NAND are in a state of supply shortage. Due to the need for physical disassembly of systems for memory upgrades, the demand for memory in AI systems is more rigid, and price elasticity is lower than market expectations. The Strategic Customer Agreement (SCA) is expected to cover about 40% of sales, providing a price stability mechanism for both parties.Micron's management described the demand for CPU-side AI Agents as "pre-season warm-up," viewing it as a new pillar of growth outside the GPU ecosystem. For emerging technologies like SRAM, Micron believes their scalability is limited and cannot challenge the core position of HBM, with only about 5% of systems currently running such specific workloads. Deutsche Bank maintains a "Buy" rating, believing Micron has a unique advantage of "growth without sacrificing profits." During FMS, Sandisk and SK Hynix jointly released the first HBF technical specifications, but Micron believes that its actual value and commercialization prospects remain controversial.

MetaMask launched the self-custody wallet Agent Wallet on Thursday, allowing AI agents to execute on-chain transactions within user-defined limits, aimed at traders and developers using AI agents to monitor the market, identify opportunities, and autonomously execute trades. Users can set spending limits, approve specific protocols, choose risk settings, and select different levels of automation between Guard Mode and Beast Mode.Agent Wallet supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes, OpenCode, as well as Hyperliquid and Ethereum Virtual Machine compatible networks. Agent Wallet supports gas abstraction, allowing users to pay network fees with the assets being transferred, without needing to hold the corresponding native tokens of the network. MetaMask stated that supported transactions will undergo transaction simulation, threat scanning, and smart trading MEV protection, and if qualifying transactions incur losses after passing security checks, they can receive up to $10,000 in Transaction Protection coverage per month.

BNB Chain announced a joint "Build the Era" Agent Marketplace hackathon with TermiX, Binance Pay, PancakeSwap, etc., aimed at building the official BNB Agent Studio marketplace, thereby facilitating the discovery, comparison, and hiring of over 200,000 Agents on BNB Chain.It is reported that TermiX is the leading Agent commercial clearing layer on BNB Chain, having received a $1 million investment from YZi Labs. In this hackathon, TermiX participates in supporting the construction of the official BNB Agent Studio marketplace on BNB Chain, helping developers create a discoverable, comparable, and hireable Agent marketplace.Recently, TermiX launched Agent.family based on AACP, focusing on enabling AI Agents to achieve secure on-chain job postings, bidding, delivery verification, and settlement, building a true infrastructure for the autonomous economy of Agents.

According to Business Wire, the AI agent infrastructure platform Sapiom has completed a $35 million Series A funding round, led by Dragonfly, with participation from Accel, Gradient, Coinbase Ventures, Operator Collective, Formus Capital, and VanEck Ventures. Existing investors Okta Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Anthropic, and Array Ventures continue to invest.Founded just 11 months ago, the company previously completed a $15 million seed round, bringing total funding to $50 million. Sapiom aims to eliminate infrastructure barriers for AI agents from demonstration to production environments. Sapiom simultaneously launched three products: Router, Agent Studio, and Runtime. Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi will join the Sapiom board.

On August 5, 2026, BNB Chain officially launched the Build the Era open hackathon, aimed at individual developers and teams, soliciting proposals for building the best AI Agent trading market on the BNB Smart Chain. Currently, over 200,000 AI Agents based on the ERC-8004 standard have been registered on the BNB Smart Chain, accounting for about 60% of the total number of similar Agents across 26 networks, but there is a lack of a unified entry point for discovery, comparison, and invocation. This hackathon aims to fill this discoverability gap.The total prize pool for this hackathon exceeds $40,000, jointly provided by BNB Chain and ecosystem partners such as TermiX, PancakeSwap, AltLayer, and Altana. Among them, the champion of the main track from BNB Chain will receive a reward equivalent to 30,000 USDT and have the opportunity to be officially adopted as the trading market for BNB Agent Studio, incubated and operated as an independent product. TermiX has set aside a partner track prize of 10,000 USDT, PancakeSwap offers 1,000 CAKE, AltLayer provides the 8004scan Pro solution and AltLLM credits, and Altana offers 50,000 XP.The submission period for works is from August 5 to September 9, with the evaluation period from September 9 to 23, and the winners will be announced on November 5. BNB Chain reminds developers to build markets around four types of Agents: monitoring, grid trading, health factor management, and yield optimization, and suggests that the market should have cross-category coverage capabilities.

BNB Chain and the largest AI Agent cluster infrastructure on 0G, NeoSoul, announced a strategic partnership with the privacy identity network Billions Network, aimed at humans and AI Agents. Both parties will explore how authentication can help AI Agents participate more securely in the digital market.Billions provides identity technology for users and AI Agents while protecting personal information. NeoSoul develops Agents that can observe the market and take action within user constraints. The first phase of the collaboration will explore whether the systems of both parties can connect.Both parties will also investigate how users can maintain control when Agents act independently and assess the application of related capabilities in the BNB Chain and AI Agent market.Kaelan, co-founder of NeoSoul, stated, "AI Agents have begun making decisions on behalf of users, so user control has become even more important. Through this collaboration, NeoSoul and Billions will study how to use identity technology to allow users to retain control when Agents act independently."Evin McMullen, CEO and co-founder of Billions Network, stated, "As AI Agents take on more complex tasks, users need to know who is controlling the Agents and what the Agents can do. NeoSoul has experience in autonomous market decision-making for Agents. We look forward to exploring how to make the use of Agents safer through identity technology."