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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.

According to Fortune, Mastercard has announced a new protocol called Agent Pay for AI, allowing AI agents to make payments and conduct small transfers among themselves— for example, automatically paying when an AI agent retrieves data from a website in segments. The protocol stores the permissions granted to AI agents by humans on the blockchain, initially using the Polygon network to ensure transparency and verifiability, allowing multiple parties to verify whether the agents are acting as instructed.Companies like Adyen, Coinbase, and Cloudflare are collaborating with Mastercard to develop this protocol. Mastercard's Chief Product Officer Jorn Lambert stated that this protocol will not become a major source of revenue in the short term, but it is expected to develop into a significant new market over the next five years.Giants like Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, and Google are actively laying out AI payment protocols, jointly promoting the future of "machine-to-machine payments" and AI chatbots dominating e-commerce transactions; however, the current volume of agent-based payments remains relatively small.

According to The Block, MetaMask has launched a non-custodial wallet for AI agents called Agent Wallet, which will support automated trading, perpetual contracts, prediction markets, and liquidity provision on the Ethereum ecosystem and multiple EVM chains and Hyperliquid.Consensys stated that the wallet features mandatory trade simulation, user-defined spending limits, and whitelist rules, and integrates with Blockaid to scan for suspicious transactions. If risks are triggered, user confirmation will be required through 2FA push notifications or email.Eligible and deemed safe transactions will receive up to $10,000 in compensation under MetaMask Transaction Protection. The product is currently available to a limited number of users via command line, with general availability expected for more users this summer.

The AI aggregation platform B.AI announced that its platform user count has surpassed 1.9 million, reaching 1,900,086 users.The official statement indicated that, in addition to providing mainstream model aggregation services, B.AI is currently focused on developing underlying financial and identity infrastructure for AI agents. This foundation aims to grant agents independent economic sovereignty, primarily to address the needs of autonomous payments, asset management, and on-chain credit verification for agents.

According to official news, Feixiaohao has invested in the AI Agent infrastructure project AMIKO and has reached a strategic cooperation with AMIKO. The two parties will collaborate on capital support, content dissemination, live events, media promotion, AI search content development, product scenario integration, and multilingual market promotion, aiming to establish a clearer project recognition for AMIKO in the Chinese and international Web3 markets.AMIKO is positioned as a digital identity and social infrastructure for the AI Agent era, attempting to integrate identity, productivity, social interaction, and economic capability within the same system, allowing users to have AI Twins, Companions, Assistants, and Experts that represent their actions, communication, and collaboration. Its technical path involves OpenHermit hosting runtime and OpenClaw BYOA scenarios, focusing on AI digital avatars, social continuity, Agent native identity layers, and economic circulation within the platform.Feixiaohao (Feixiaohao.ai) stated that this investment and strategic cooperation will leverage its Web3 data platform, industry media, live events, and global ecological communication capabilities to help AMIKO reach a broader audience of Web3 users, media, and AI search content scenarios. Previously, AMIKO had received strategic investment from the American AI investment firm High Ridge Holdings for product development, ecological expansion, and international growth.

B.AI announced a partnership with Chainbase to jointly build underlying infrastructure. B.AI promotes a financial infrastructure centered around intelligent agents, while Chainbase constructs the access layer AgentKey (AgentKey.app) for unified access to web, social, and on-chain data. B.AI understands that the biggest bottleneck for AI intelligent agents is not intelligence, but access permissions. The two will work together to open a complete channel for web, social, on-chain data, and financial services, allowing intelligent agents to operate freely in the real world, truly possessing greater access permissions and stronger autonomy, becoming more capable AI intelligent agents.

BNB Chain announced that it will hold the BNB Hack: AI Trading Agent themed hackathon season from June 3 to 21. This event is in collaboration with CoinMarketCap and Trust Wallet, aiming to enable developers to build intelligent agents that can automatically formulate strategies and trade 24/7 based on their tech stack.The hackathon features 2 main tracks, with a sprint period of 3 weeks and a total prize pool of $36,000. Additional rewards include API credits, one-on-one mentorship, and ecosystem resource support.