Blockchain infrastructure company Alchemy has launched a system that allows autonomous AI agents to buy compute credits and access its blockchain data services using onchain wallets and $USDC on Base. According to the company’s announcement, the initial release allows AI agents to directly query blockchain networks, check nonfungible token (NFT) ownership, view wallet balances across
Table of Contents What Do the Numbers Actually Look Like?Where Is $BNB Chain Actually Winning?How Does $BNB Compare to Other Major L1s?What Is Fueling the Growth?What Comes Next? $BNB Chain is quietly putting up some of the strongest onchain numbers across all Layer 1 blockchains in early 2026. While Solana grabs headlines for speculation and
Band Protocol has completed a planned migration of its push-based price oracle from the Blaze testnet to the newly launched Sonic Testnet, the teams announced today. The move is intended to give developers building on Sonic a more stable, mainnet-like environment for integrating live price feeds and to smooth the path toward full mainnet deployments.
Shares of Figure Technology Solutions, a blockchain-based consumer lending marketplace, plunged on Friday after the company reported mixed fourth-quarter results the prior day, signaling a more difficult operating environment even as revenue continued to climb. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, the company posted revenue of $159.9 million, up from $83.9 million a year earlier,
Citigroup (C) plans to launch institutional bitcoin custody later this year, part of a broader push to integrate digital assets into the bank’s traditional financial infrastructure. Nisha Surendran, who heads Citi’s digital asset custody product buildout, described the initiative in a speech at the World Strategy Forum on Thursday as an effort to “make bitcoin
Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT) is considering spinning off Truth Social—its free speech-focused social media platform championed by President Donald Trump—into its own public entity, the firm announced on Friday. The move would see Truth Social and other Trump Media businesses become SpinCo, which would then merge with Texas Ventures III. However, some assets
US President Donald Trump, in a statement regarding negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, said that contacts with the Tehran administration are expected to continue today. Speaking to reporters before his visit to Texas, Trump reiterated that he wanted to make a deal with Iran, but that Tehran would absolutely not be allowed to possess nuclear
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research lab developing advanced language models, announced Friday that the company has secured $110 billion in a new funding round backed by SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Amazon at a $730 billion pre-money valuation. SoftBank, the Japanese investment conglomerate behind major tech initiatives, and NVIDIA, a leading supplier of AI computing hardware, each