CoinFello, an AI agent that interacts directly with smart contracts, has introduced its open-source OpenClaw skill in partnership with MetaMask, allowing AI agents to securely execute onchain transactions through delegated smart wallet permissions, according to an announcement shared with Finbold on March 11. The integration enables Moltbots, personal AI agents running on the OpenClaw framework,
Network News ETHEREUM FOUNDATION STARTS EXPERIMENTING WITH DVT-LITE TECH: The Ethereum Foundation is testing a method for running validators that could make it significantly easier for institutions holding large amounts of ether to set up staking infrastructure, widening the pool of participants and creating a more decentralized network. In a post on X, blockchain co-founder
US banking giant Wells Fargo has filed a trademark application covering a wide range of cryptocurrency trading, payments and blockchain software services. A filing submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Tuesday seeks protection for the name “WFUSD.” The application is currently awaiting assignment to an examining attorney, according to official trademark
The European Central Bank (ECB) on Wednesday published its Appia roadmap, setting out a long-term plan for building tokenized wholesale financial markets in Europe anchored in central bank money. The roadmap is built around two linked initiatives. Pontes is the Eurosystem’s distributed ledger technology settlement solution, while Appia is the broader strategic framework for developing
Mastercard has launched a new Crypto Partner Program that brings together more than 85 companies from across the digital asset and payments industries, an effort to link blockchain technology more directly with the infrastructure that underpins global commerce. The program includes crypto exchanges, blockchain developers, fintech firms and banks such as Binance, Circle, Ripple, Gemini,
The decentralized trading platform, edgeX, has revealed the release of $EDGE Chain, an application-specific rollup on the Arbitrum platform. The new blockchain ecosystem is constructed to facilitate high-speed trading operation and at the same time high liquidity and high-level security anchored on the Ethereum ecosystem. $EDGE Chain by @EdgeX_Exchange is now live! EdgeX is introducing
EmoFi and REI Network will collaborate to incorporate EmoFi’s unique sentiment analysis system along with REI’s gasless capabilities. The purpose of this collaboration is to offer a better experience to the worldwide cryptocurrency community in the fast-growing space of DeFi and Web3 by creating easier-to-use, more accessible (data-driven) platforms. Bridging the Gap Between Scalability and
Ethereum developers have proposed a new token standard, ERC-8183, aimed at enabling AI agents to transact securely with each other. The proposal was co-developed by the Ethereum Foundation and Virtuals Protocol to support structured commerce between autonomous agents on-chain. The standard establishes a trustless escrow system, ensuring payments are released only after tasks are verified.
Users of the $BNB Chain ecosystem must act quickly! The asset migration tool approaches retirement, and it can be a valuable asset to them. The network recently reminded users that the $BNB Beacon Chain Token Recovery Tool! This will soon sunset, meaning remaining assets must be moved before the system is permanently discontinued. Reminder: The
Since the emergence of ChatGPT and chatbots, the artificial intelligence (AI) hype has evolved into “agentic payments,” billed as the next wave of internet commerce in which humans won’t be transacting. It will be AI agents paying each other: The idea is simple: build automated payment rails using AI agents that traditional firms like credit