Artificial intelligence has been able to recommend, predict, and assist for years. What it hasn’t been able to do—until now—is pay. That changed this week.

DeFi has spent years stacking primitives on top of one another—DEXs here, lending markets there, perpetuals somewhere else—often stitched together with fragile integrations and external oracles. Everything Protocol is taking a different approach.

Cardano is known for security and rigor, but many applications still need faster finality and higher throughput—especially in DeFi and institutional use cases.

Carbon markets are scaling fast, but trust remains fragile. EcoGuard, launched by The Hashgraph Group, brings end-to-end traceability to carbon credits—using Hedera to make issuance, verification, trading, and retirement auditable.

Scoop AI is bringing its next global hackathon stop to Seoul with Seoul Bowl, a two-day build event taking place December 20–21. Co-hosted alongside Neo, the Layer-1 blockchain, and SpoonOS, the chain-agnostic agentic operating system powered by Neo.

SQD.ai’s latest upgrade did something very few infrastructure projects ever manage. It stepped out of the purely technical world and landed directly into internet culture when Carbot Animations created an entire video around it.