Crypto is built for AI agents, not humans, according to Alchemy’s CEO

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The modern financial system was never designed for machines. It was built around the constraints of human life: geography, sleep cycles, paperwork, and physical presence. But as AI agents begin to act as economic participants, that human-centric design is starting to look less like a feature, and more like a bottleneck, said the co-founder of […]

Don’t get AI agents and stablecoin transfers? Enroll in CoinDesk University

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Have you had “deploy a stablecoin” and “build an AI agent” on your business to-do list since the beginning of the year? You know these technologies will create business efficiencies, but finding the time to really get a grasp, a hands-on grasp, of these solutions has proved hard to find. You might even feel like […]

Anthropic Research Shows AI Agents Closing In on Real DeFi Attack Capability

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AI agents are getting good enough at finding attack vectors in smart contracts that they can already be weaponized by bad actors, according to new research published by the Anthropic Fellows program. A study by the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars Program (MATS) and the Anthropic Fellows program tested frontier models against SCONE-bench, a dataset […]

AI Agents Need Identity and Zero-Knowledge Proofs Are the Solution

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These are interesting times for AI and trust. A growing number of investment firms are using AI agents to review research notes and company filings. Humans are asked to surrender increasingly invasive biometric data, like face scans, voice samples, and behavioral patterns, just to prove they’re not bots. Once in the wild, this data can […]