Travala, the cryptocurrency-native travel booking platform, has launched a new protocol that enables artificial intelligence agents to search, book, and pay for hotel accommodations autonomously. The Travala Travel MCP, built on the Base blockchain, introduces a direct payment pipeline that bypasses traditional credit card networks and reduces transaction costs to roughly one cent per booking.
When Zero Network announced it was shutting down last month, the reaction across crypto was weary: Another Ethereum layer-2 just bit the dust. The closure joined a growing list of struggling rollups and came amid renewed debate about whether Ethereum’s sprawling layer-2 ecosystem has become too crowded. At the same time, Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin
Shinhan Financial Group is moving to join the Canton Network’s governance structure as South Korea’s tokenized finance market grows. Local reports said Shinhan Asset Management and Shinhan Investment & Securities signed separate MOUs with the Canton Foundation. The agreements aim to build a cooperation framework for policy discussions and technical development on Canton Network. Shinhan
In a groundbreaking move to scale AI-powered Web3 games and offer players a better user experience, FishWar, a blockchain gaming platform, today entered into a strategic alliance with RATGPT, a decentralized AI network. The collaboration enabled FishWar to take advantage of RATGPT’s decentralized AI framework to boost the functionality of agents on its AI-driven blockchain
Circle, the company behind USD Coin ($USDC), has made Stellar one of its core blockchain deployments for the world’s largest regulated stablecoin. The decision comes down to three concrete factors: Stellar’s sub-5-second transaction finality, fees that cost a fraction of a cent, and a network built from the ground up for cross-border payments rather than
Pleasing Market is replacing LayerZero with Chainlink infrastructure after conducting an extensive security assessment following the recent $292 million exploit targeting Kelp DAO and LayerZero, according to a Wednesday statement. With this move, Pleasing Market has become the latest project to move away from LayerZero in favor of Chainlink. The project joins KelpDAO, Solv Protocol,
Blockchain analytics platform Chainalysis has reported that wallets interacting with Coinbase’s x402 protocol have generated more than 100 million transactions on Base since the payment standard launched, offering one of the clearest signs yet that machine-to-machine payments are beginning to gain traction on public blockchains. Built to let software agents pay for online resources automatically,
DNA Protocol and $XRP Ledger: The Rise of Sovereign Identity Powered by Zero-Knowledge Proofs DNA Protocol, a platform built around decentralized identity, is advancing a model of sovereign identity anchored on the $XRP Ledger (XRPL), using zero-knowledge proofs to verify personal and genomic attributes without exposing the underlying data. For decades, identity has been defined
Agentic payment activity on Coinbase’s Base network has surpassed 100 million transactions, signaling that machine-to-machine payments are moving beyond the proof-of-concept stage in onchain environments. According to a new Chainalysis report, wallets interacting with Coinbase’s x402 protocol generated more than 100 million transactions on Base within roughly nine months of launch. The x402 protocol allows
How MiCA and $EURCV Are Driving $XRP Ledger and Multi-Chain Stablecoin Adoption According to Evernorth, the debate is no longer about whether traditional banks will adopt blockchain, it is already happening. As a result, the focus now is on the pace of adoption, the networks that will support regulated financial activity, and the extent to