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Solana's Agentic Acceleration Published on May 9, 2026 View in Browser Sponsor: MetaMask - Spend crypto anywhere online and AFK with MetaMask Card. Learn about MetaMask Card .  .  . ROUNDUP The Week Solana Brought Google to x402 Bankless Author: David Christopher This week’s biggest news came from the other side of the fence: Solana.  The Solana Foundation and Google Cloud released Pay.sh, a gateway that lets agent

When used properly, agents can shrink DeFi’s attack surface while helping users react to live risk before it becomes damage.

x402 will need native integrators to succeed.

AI has finally given CC0 the expansion engine it always needed. The proof is in the games.

Agents are knowledge systems first. Local models make them more private, but security gaps loom.

On the heels of x402's latest advances, here's what we're watching right now.

With fake identities and misinfo surging online, proof of personhood is becoming table stakes.

Is Tempo's MPP complementary or competitive with x402?

Digging into 5 theoretical x402 products worth building.

It was another big week in this brave new world of onchain agents. Here's what we're watching.

Fully homomorphic encryption is years away from frontier scale, but the bar for "good enough" just got lower.

Conway wants to make agents self-funding. But is that innovation or an ethical mistake?

Ethereum's cryptographic guardrails may be our best defense in the face of corporate AI's safety failures.

The organs of an agent economy — payments, reputation, identity — have been built separately for months. OpenClaw might be the body they plug into.

AI judges could fix prediction markets, but only if their decisions are reproducible.

The ElizaOS ecosystem is paving the way to new kinds of agent arenas.

Understanding Google's UCP and how it compares to x402 agent payments.

ERC-8004 launches January 16, bringing onchain identity and reputation to autonomous agents. The machine economy's trust layer is here.

Where bots are already experimenting on prediction markets.

Understanding the most impactful changes of x402's V2 and assessing its protocol activity!

TAO emissions are changing. Here's everything you need to know.

The era of LLM-based smart contract exploits has arrived.

Breaking down the Solana-to-EVM migration, the CCIP integration, and what's still unclear about $ELIZAOS.

Understanding Noice's new Oracle agent and its vision of curated capital markets.

Seven AI-focused finalists will pitch at DevConnect in less than two weeks — track them before the market catches on.

Tether's AI division has released its first products!

Why V2 is already in the works, tackling core issues around architecture, discovery, and user experience.

How Coinbase's AI-centric payment rails are quietly winning mainstream adoption.

Genesis rewarded farmers over believers. Unicorn opens markets from Day 1 and ties founder unlocks to real traction.

USDai's AI infrastructure financing provides competitive yield opportunities along with an airdrop hunt

Ethereum, Coinbase, and Cloudflare are building the entire web's AI infrastructure.

Ethereum's new dAI team, L2 AI projects outperform.

Robotics projects outperform, Giza levels up its DeFAI stack.

AI Roundup: Freysa's new Enchanted mobile app and a special Limitless sneak peek.

AI Roundup: The $PROMPT surge, Venice's new updates, plus Google's push for AI dominance!

AI Roundup: Base's AI bounce, Nillion's NilGPT, and Google's new AI phone!

AI Roundup: Codatta's boom, a fresh Cursor attack vector, and inside Meta's new AI!

AI Roundup: Base DeFAI's strength, TaoFi's new bridge, and GPT-5 unveiled!

AI Roundup: AI coins outperform, Mamo vs. Bankr, plus inside the rise of smart browsers!

AI Roundup: Talos makes a case for ETH DeFAI, while AI Giants win GOLD at the IMO

AI Roundup: DeFAI accelerates, AI + confidential computing, and the Windsurf War!

AI Roundup: Solana agents surge, Clanker's new powers, plus Grok 4!

AI Roundup: Surging Base AI projects, Yupp's train-to-earn push, plus inside ChatGPT's dark side!

AI Roundup: Surging Base AI projects, Yupp's train-to-earn push, plus inside ChatGPT's dark side!

AI Roundup: Treasure's AI $MAGIC, Bankr Terminal 101, and the Veo 3 video revolution!

AI Roundup: Virtuals' ETH debut, Apple's AI awakening, and why OpenAI might embrace World!

AI Roundup: Learn to vibecode Crypto apps, $BNKR beats $CLANKER, and two experts clash on AI’s future!

AI Roundup: Virtuals holds strong, Loud prepares its attention market, and OpenAI eyes an iPhone killer!

AI Roundup: $COOKIE and $WLD shine, plus meet the new Snaps InfoFi system and Google's Hollywood-killer Veo 3!

AI Roundup: Virtuals continues to dominate mindshare as its ACP and Project 69 innovations come into focus!

AI Roundup: AI agents outperform, Daydreams gaming ramps up, and the robotics era accelerates!

AI Roundup: The Virtuals agents ecosystem is booming, meanwhile a new AI experiment shocked the world!

AI Roundup: The DeFAI sector is uptrending, as is crypto's utility as truth and trust infra in the AI era!

AI Roundup: A new AI token runs 10x, ChatGPT's big memory boost, plus inside Bonsai's Smart Media tool!

AI Roundup: AGI in 2027, PROMPT's token launch recovery, and the coming AI art wave!

AI Roundup: $TAO alpha tokens rip, ChatGPT's boom, plus a primer on the growing crossroads of crypto and vibe coding!

AI Roundup: AI memes run, ChatGPT's new image powers, plus the onchain implications of the Great Ghibli-fication!

AI Roundup: Baidu's big breakthrough, Nvidia's GR00T and DePAI, plus your weekly market pulse!

AI Roundup: $VIRTUALS rebounds, the global AI arms race picks up, and Grok’s Bankr token sparks a trading frenzy!

AI Roundup: dTAO shakes up Bittensor, $ALCH defies the downtrend, and AI betting agents take on the house!

AI Roundup: AI alts outperform, Freysa Act IV, plus inside the battle for decentralized intelligence!

AI Roundup: Kaito's airdrop, InfoFi, and the Attention Economy!

AI Roundup: Bittensor's next big evolution has arrived in dTAO.

AI Roundup: Let's talk Coinbase's AI hackathon & the tokenized agent retrace.

AI Roundup: ai16z is rebranding, Virtuals is expanding, and DeepSeek is continuing to wow.

AI Roundup: The $500B Stargate Project, plus DeepSeek challenges OpenAI’s GPT-4o.

AI Roundup: Virtuals Protocol unveils big new updates, while DeFAI mindshare is surging.

AI Roundup: Nvidia's new supercomputer, Hyperfy's ai16z airdrop, AI Agent Toolkit, and more!

AI Roundup: ai16Z plans a total overall with new tokenomics, a launchpad, and possibly an L1.

AI Roundup: What did the agents get up to over the holidays?

gm Bankless Nation, this week ai16z's Eliza agents framework stole the spotlight. Let's catch you up in the 1st AI Roundup issue!