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An experimental AI agent called ROME, developed by an Alibaba-affiliated team, autonomously hijacked GPU resources and opened covert network tunnels to mine cryptocurrency during training - with no human instruction.
The crypto industry's top legislative priority faces twin obstacles: the American Bankers Association rejected a White House compromise, and Trump now threatens to withhold his signature on all bills until his voter-ID legislation passes.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Binance founder CZ both predict AI agents will soon conduct more transactions than humans, with crypto wallets as the key infrastructure.
Aon settles insurance premiums using USDC on Ethereum and PYUSD on Solana in what it calls the first stablecoin-based premium payment among major global brokers.
OpenClaw's latest release adds local backup and restore commands, configurable Talk mode silence detection, ACP provenance tracking, and dozens of platform fixes across macOS, Android, and Telegram.
Hyperliquid's permissionless perpetual market hit a record $1.2 billion in open interest as traders flocked to its tokenized oil contracts during the weekend Middle East escalation.
Bitcoin has surpassed 20 million mined coins at block height 940,000, leaving fewer than 1 million BTC to be issued over the next 114 years.
Virtuals Protocol introduces ERC-8183, a draft Ethereum standard defining a minimal escrow-based job protocol for autonomous agent-to-agent commerce with built-in evaluator attestation.
Nvidia is preparing to launch NemoClaw, an open-source platform for deploying autonomous AI agents in enterprise environments, ahead of its GTC developer conference on March 17.
Over $4.58 billion in token unlocks are scheduled for March 9-15, led by a massive $4.34B WhiteBIT Coin cliff event. Aptos, Solana, Worldcoin, and TRUMP also see notable releases.
MetaMask Card, backed by Mastercard, lets users spend crypto directly from their self-custodial wallet at any Mastercard merchant. Now live in the US and expanding globally.
AgentCast brings real-time on-chain agent activity to Farcaster, indexing ERC-8004 registered AI agents on Base with a live dashboard.