AI Agent的N个平行世界
一个属于Agent的平行经济,正在悄无声息地成形。
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Circle's stock price surged over 35%! After 270 days on the market, it's striving to shed its stablecoin label.
USDC's circulating supply surpassed 75 billion, with Q4 revenue growing by 77%. Facing the dual pressures of declining interest rates and Coinbase's revenue sharing, the company is transforming into a platform through Arc blockchain and AI-powered agent payments, seeking new growth unrelated to interest rates.The changing of the guard in the payment industry: Stripe, a unicorn worth hundreds of billions, may acquire PayPal, heavily investing in stablecoins and AI.
PayPal, the pioneer of online payments, may be acquired, with the rumored buyer being Stripe, a payment upstart that is not yet publicly listed. To date, this rising star has not yet rung the Nasdaq bell, choosing to retain its strategic freedom as a private company, and is accelerating its bets on stablecoins and AI, investing heavily in entirely new financial sectors.OpenClaw slams on the gas and crashes into the "2028 doomsday theory": Who will create the "brakes" for AI?
OpenClaw ignites the agency commerce boom, while NEAR showcases how AI Chain builds the foundation of the agency economy at Nearcon 2026, exploring privacy, security, and accountability mechanisms, and revealing the opportunities and challenges of an era of commercial compression.Criticized by Vitalik Buterin for veering off course, is Automaton's Web4 experiment a dangerous game?
Recently, the open-source AI project Automaton proposed the concept of Web 4.0 and launched the first self-sustaining AI agent, which quickly gained popularity both inside and outside the crypto community. This AI experiment unexpectedly brought some room for imagination to the crypto market, and also sparked considerable discussion and controversy.Following Dragonfly's new $650 million funding round, Haseeb stated that "encryption is not for humans," and that AI agents are the ultimate users.
Haseeb Qureshi, a partner at Dragonfly Capital, argues that cryptocurrencies were not created for humans, but rather designed for AI agents, and that AI will dominate crypto-interactions and reshape the financial world in the future.The founder of OpenClaw joined OpenAI with the goal of "developing an AI assistant that even my mother can use".
OpenAI has successfully recruited Peter Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, with the aim of overcoming the barriers to AI usability, promoting the development of personal intelligent agents, and reshaping the software ecosystem and addressing security challenges.ERC-8004 has gathered over 20,000 "digital immigrants," and the blockchain has become a testing ground for AI agents.
The Ethereum ERC-8004 protocol has been launched, with over 20,000 AI agents on-chain, driving an explosive growth in the on-chain AI agent economy and exploring a new decentralized AI collaboration ecosystem.Transforming intelligent agents into economic agents: A panoramic scan of the ERC-8004 ecosystem players.
The ERC-8004 standard builds a decentralized trust infrastructure for AI agents, and an era of "agent economy" where intelligent agents collaborate autonomously has moved from concept to reality.Crypto.com spends a whopping $70 million to acquire AI.com; ERC-8004 will power AI Agent infrastructure.
From how the ERC-8004 protocol grants AI agents "on-chain sovereignty" to the underlying restructuring of payment and identity layers, the narrative center of the crypto market is shifting from "serving human retail investors" to "serving silicon-based agents." This ultimate battle over traffic entry points and infrastructure may well determine the financial landscape for the next decade.