Web3 × AI
Agent-native money and the crypto talent corridor.
Web3 × AIAnalysis
Walt Lets ChatGPT and Claude Trade Inside Telegram
Walt, the trading app inside Telegram, now lets AI agents trade crypto futures from a separate account. Its wealth director explains the limits.
Web3 × AIOpinion
Crypto Exchanges Let the Bots Keep the Gains
Bots drive most of Solana's exchange volume, and a new study finds the top 1 percent of wallets capture 81 percent of the gains.
Web3 × AIAnalysis
MNX Opens Futures on OpenAI and Anthropic Before Their IPOs
A crypto exchange from Manifold's co-founder now sells dated contracts on four private AI labs, settled at prices set outside the labs.
Web3 × AISponsored
Crowded Calendar, Curated Room
TOKEN2049's side-event count is contested, and the tech companies held up as Web3's model run rooms from Apple's 1,000 seats to re:Invent's 63,000, testing whether presence or volume builds trust.
Web3 × AIAnalysis
Agent-Native Money
Coinbase's x402 protocol, launched in May 2025, and Mastercard's June 2026 Agent Pay for Machines are converging on stablecoin rails built for autonomous agents, with Cloudflare, Stripe, and Circle racing to plug in.
Web3 × AIAnalysis
The Crypto-AI Talent Corridor
Rob Witoff's July 2026 promotion to Coinbase chief technology officer arrived alongside a workforce cut built around AI tooling, while a16z crypto's Sriram Krishnan cycled from Web3 investing into the White House's top AI policy seat, tracing a talent corridor that now runs in both directions.
Web3 × AIAnalysis
OpenServ's Proof Threshold
Tim Hafner and Armağan Amcalar built OpenServ as a web3 agent platform anchored by the SERV token, and the seventy percent rally following its BRAID benchmark claim is testing how crypto governance verifies technology claims.
