Lido's Network Expansion Committee chose Chainlink CCIP to bridge its staking token across chains, citing security lessons from $3 billion in cross-chain bridge exploits.

The crypto data platform laid off a quarter of its workforce this week while refocusing on AI-powered dashboards and institutional adoption of onchain assets.

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Bedrock AgentCore Payments turns Amazon's agent platform into a transactional layer, with Coinbase supplying x402 stablecoin rails and Stripe contributing wallet infrastructure via Privy.

WalletConnect's ecosystem of 700 crypto wallets and 70,000 dApps now supports the enterprise- and privacy-focused blockchain network.

Tempo also announced it's launching a Stablecoin Advisory.

Tangem Pay lets users spend USDC directly from their self-custodial Tangem wallets, settling all transactions on Polygon.

On-chain AI agents are increasingly capable of reasoning through complex DeFi strategies, but ERC-8211's devs say a shared on-chain execution layer was lacking.

The open standard for embedding payments into HTTP interactions aims to become the settlement layer for AI agent commerce, with over 20 founding members spanning tech, payments and crypto.