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FameEX Exchange, which just celebrated its 8th anniversary, will hold a side event, AI Agents Night, with GAEA Ventures during Tokyo WebX 2026.Today, AI Agents are evolving from conversational models into on-chain autonomous executors, handling intent parsing, multi-step transactions, and dynamic asset allocation. This event will bring together Web3 founders, investors, and developers to discuss the future of cross-ecosystem collaboration and AI-driven trading architecture.

Polymarket's Vice President of Product Engineering and former Craft co-founder Balint Orosz tweeted that Polymarket has acquired the productivity app Craft Agents, and some team members from Craft will join Polymarket.

According to PR Newswire, the AI Agent infrastructure project Orthogonal announced the completion of a $4.3 million seed round financing, led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Decasonic, Blast, Outbound, Surreal, and others.Orthogonal positions itself as the underlying infrastructure for internet discovery, orchestration, and payment aimed at AI agents, providing a full suite of capabilities for service retrieval, cross-tool task automation, and on-chain instant payments.It is reported that the funds raised in this round will be used for core platform iterative development, expanding the engineering and marketing teams, continuously increasing the scale of platform developers, and improving the interconnectivity ecosystem for AI agents.

According to PR Newswire, AI Agent infrastructure company Sail Research announced the completion of $80 million in seed and Series A financing, led by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Redpoint Ventures, CRV, Theory Ventures, and others.Sail Research focuses on building infrastructure for AI Agents, aiming to address the computational power, cost, and operational limitations of current artificial intelligence systems in long-duration, multi-step tasks. Its API is compatible with OpenAI interfaces and supports mainstream open-source models such as DeepSeek and Gemma.

During the 2026 New York Tech Week, Zack Anderson, Chief Data and Analytics Officer of J.P. Morgan Payments, shared the latest applications and strategic outlook of AI in payment infrastructure at a seminar. He stated that the application of AI in the banking industry is becoming increasingly mature, with most AI agents currently operating invisibly in the background, significantly enhancing the efficiency of payment flows and risk management capabilities.Anderson pointed out that with the proliferation of Agentic AI, the core challenge facing the payment sector lies in the governance and auditability of "machine authorization" (especially for high-value payments). He emphasized that leveraging AI to handle complex cross-border payment compliance rules is an important opportunity in the near term, which is expected to significantly reduce payment rejection rates. Furthermore, although current corporate AI investments are largely focused on the customer front end, "Agentic Treasury" will be an important early opportunity for the future, and its large-scale application will still rely on further improvement of underlying data and governance infrastructure.

According to Wall Street News, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced at the annual shareholder meeting that the era of AI agents has officially arrived. He redefined the new type of data center as an "AI factory" specifically for producing tokens, and revealed that the new Vera CPU and Vera Rubin platform, designed to meet the ultra-low latency demands of agents, have fully entered mass production. Huang emphasized that as AI creates substantial economic value, the demand for computing power is showing an accelerating expansion trend, and its core software ecosystem CUDA is gradually transforming into a toolbox dedicated to agents.Regarding market access and compliance, Huang revealed that the U.S. government has now approved the export of H200 chips to Chinese customers, but this business has yet to generate any revenue, and there remains uncertainty regarding actual importation. At the same time, he rarely issued a public warning about the risks of chip smuggling, clearly stating that NVIDIA will not provide any hardware or software support and repair services for restricted smuggled products, and bluntly said that relying on smuggling to piece together advanced AI data centers is a "dead end." Additionally, he reiterated the long-term commitment to capital returns, planning to return over 50% of free cash flow to shareholders.

Tianfeng International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed that Google is deepening its collaboration with MediaTek on the TPU v9, developing an upgraded chip codenamed Triggerfish. It is reported that MediaTek has exclusively obtained this high-value order. The new chip is positioned as a v9 variant with stronger inference capabilities, primarily targeting the AI Agent and reinforcement learning fields, aiming to address CPU and memory bottlenecks in the computing process.In terms of technical specifications, Triggerfish's SRAM capacity has increased by 2 to 3 times compared to the basic version (Humufish), with the addition of dedicated analog chips for reinforcement learning and AI Agent collaboration, and memory upgraded from HBM4 to HBM4E. Kuo expects that while the basic version chip maintains a shipment expectation of 4 to 5 million units, Google has added 1 to 2 million new orders for Triggerfish. The chip is expected to enter production by the end of 2027 and achieve mass production and shipment in 2028, with a unit price approximately 30% higher than the basic version, likely becoming a new driving force for MediaTek's business growth in 2028.

The AI Identity and Agent Infrastructure Project Billions has released its latest strategic roadmap, announcing a focus on advancing the infrastructure construction related to Agent commerce and Agent payments, promoting the evolution of AI Agents from information processing tools to participants in economic activities.Billions stated that as Agents begin to autonomously complete service calls, payment settlements, product purchases, and task executions, AI is gradually entering the Agent economy era. In the future, Agents will not only need identity and permission management capabilities but also the ability to participate in real commercial activities and value exchanges.Currently, Billions has launched payment-related components based on the x402 protocol, including Agent Skill, server-side extensions, and SDK. The team indicated that they will continue to expand product capabilities around Agent authentication, authorization management, payment execution, and commercial collaboration scenarios, building an infrastructure network aimed at the Agent Economy.Billions believes that the automated value exchange between Agents and between Agents and services will become the next stage of AI development, and the Agent commercial network is expected to become an important part of the future digital economy.

Molly O'Shea, founder of the technology and investment media platform Sourcery, revealed in a post on the X platform that Coinbase's AI agent has registered as an investment advisor with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and has its own financial accounts. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that the AI agents are forming an independent economy: they purchase goods and services and also hire other agents to collaborate, thus requiring a completely new financial infrastructure to support these activities.Coinbase provides a complete tech stack for this trend, covering trading, payments, and account management. Previously, Coinbase launched the "Coinbase for Agents" platform, allowing AI systems to execute trading and payment tasks through independent sub-accounts within a secure framework set by users, covering spot, derivatives, and future stock and prediction markets.

Bitget officially launched the AI trading strategy workflow layer GetAgent Playbook, marking the first time the Agent Harness framework is available to users. Users can select, preview, configure, and launch AI trading strategies from the Agent Playbook strategy library without having to write prompts themselves, all running in an isolated sub-account with auditable operations and transparent processes. Currently, this feature is available to GetAgent Plus and Pro users.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that AI trading is evolving from Q&A to workflows, with prompt configuration being the biggest source of complexity. The Playbook allows users to easily transform trading ideas into Agent runnable and adjustable strategies through a ready-to-use strategy library (Agent Playbook).As of now, Bitget's AI trading tools have attracted over 1 million users, with a cumulative trading volume exceeding $1.2 billion. The Agent Hub covers 9 major modules and 57 tools, supporting read-only mode, simulated trading environments, and Agent exclusive sub-accounts, completely isolating agent operational permissions from the main account, and integrating the entire business chain of spot trading, contracts, copy trading, and wealth management, while exclusively supporting trading of tokenized assets in the US stock market.

According to official social media news, the third session of the Huobi Master Lecture "AI Agent Economy and New Opportunities in Crypto" will officially start today at 19:00. Han Feng, an independent researcher at Harvard University, a corresponding member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (NAAI), and a lifetime member of the Bitcoin Foundation, will be invited to attend and share insights on the theme "From H2A to A2A," discussing the new trends in the integration of AI and Crypto against the backdrop of the rise of the Agent economy, interpreting the collaborative network of intelligent agents, on-chain economic systems, and potential development opportunities in the future digital society.

WeChat Pay has announced the launch of the "AI Exclusive Card" feature. This feature allows users to directly express their spending needs during conversations with the AI Agent, and the Agent assists in completing the entire process from smart recommendations to final order payment.It is reported that the WeChat Pay AI Exclusive Card has initially been integrated into the WorkBuddy platform (Mac version must be upgraded to 5.1.1). Users can purchase group coupons and redeem them in-store through the "Meituan Life Assistant" Agent on this platform. The official statement indicates that in the future, this exclusive card will be planned to open access to more Agent platforms.In terms of fund security and authorization mechanisms, the AI Exclusive Card is completely isolated from the user's main WeChat Pay account, and all spending by the Agent is limited to the balance within the exclusive card. Users can independently control the inflow and outflow limits of funds in the card, and the system requires that every transaction order must be confirmed by the user’s final authorization before payment can be completed.

The stablecoin infrastructure platform Interlace announced a joint initiative with multiple ecological partners including X-Agent, Cobo, BlockSec, Stable, Conflux, Bitget Wallet, and Hetu to launch the white paper titled "The Value Transmission Layer of the AI Economy: From Concept to Implementation."The white paper systematically proposes the eight-layer architecture of Agentic Payment infrastructure for the first time, covering key aspects such as Agent applications, payment execution, custody and governance, trust and compliance, stablecoin settlement, public blockchain foundation, user access and liquidity, and causal verification. All parties believe that the value flow of the AI economy requires cross-domain collaboration, rather than being accomplished independently by a single protocol or product.The white paper is expected to be officially released in the next 1 to 2 months, during which in-depth discussions will be held on core topics such as AI Agent payment permissions, compliance risk control, and cross-chain interoperability.

The Coinbase developer platform has released an update on the progress of the payment ecosystem development. With the official launch of Coinbase for Agents, users can now create independent accounts for AI Agents, executing automated operations such as transactions and asset management under set permissions and risk control rules. The new Coinbase CLI and MCP have simplified the login process and have been demonstrated for identity and operation integration via Claude. The developer wallet is now available through the Swift SDK, supporting the integration of self-hosted wallet functionality in iOS native applications.In the coming weeks, the x402 protocol will support users within Coinbase for Agents to make direct payments using their USDC balance, allowing Agents to not only operate accounts but also complete real payments directly through the stablecoins held by users. Additionally, Coinbase will release a system update on June 16 to further enhance payment and Agent-related capabilities.

Coinbase has launched "Coinbase for Agents," creating dedicated accounts and sub-accounts for AI Agents, enabling them to trade, manage funds, and make payments on behalf of users. Users can control the AI Agent through natural language commands, such as regularly adjusting their portfolio, executing trading strategies, researching market information, or automatically purchasing assets within a set budget, without the need to manually transfer funds between different wallets.Coinbase stated that this product is built on its AI-related developments over the past year, including the previously launched x402 AI payment open standard and AgentKit. Currently, platforms like Gemini, OKX, and MetaMask are also exploring financial accounts and wallet infrastructure for AI Agents, indicating that the cryptocurrency industry is accelerating its layout for "non-human user" scenarios.