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Autonomous AI agent adoption, security, and payment

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Latest: AI agents drive rising token costs and new payment needs

By late August 2026, the transition toward an ‘AI agent economy’ has accelerated, with artificial intelligence agents acting as independent economic actors that autonomously purchase data, computing resources, and API se

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Coinbase Base trust erodes amid AI agent expansion

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Latest: Cloudflare launches Wallets to enable AI agent payments

Late May 2026 Coinbase rolled out Base’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), letting LLM agents such as Claude and Cursor trigger on‑chain actions. Avantis adopted the MCP for AI‑driven perpetual‑futures, and the CFTC approved