Fetch.ai Enables the First AI-to-AI Payment for Real-World Transactions
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.
Artificial intelligence in business and finance: the companies, the money and the tools.
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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.
Crypto conversations often jump from trend to trend, but when you zoom out, a clearer picture starts to form. The a16z crypto team’s view of 2026 is not about one breakthrough or a single killer app. It is about a set of shifts happening across infrastructure, intelligence, finance, media, and privacy that together point to a more mature and integrated crypto ecosystem. (Cover photo: Maggioe Hsu, Head of GTM @a16zcrypto)
Bhutan is taking another deliberate step toward building a sovereign, sustainable digital economy. This week, Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) and Cumberland DRW signed a multi-year Memorandum of Understanding to develop digital asset infrastructure in Gelephu Mindfulness City, Bhutan’s flagship economic zone designed around innovation, sustainability, and long-term national resilience.
Crypto moves at internet speed, but wallets still expect users to slow down. Most interfaces are built around manual inputs, nested menus, and fragmented tools that force people to constantly switch between charts, social feeds, and dashboards just to keep up. The result is a familiar pattern across the industry. Missed moments. Delayed execution. Decisions driven by FOMO instead of clarity.
Seoul, Republic of Korea — 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 longtime Layer-1 blockchain, and SpoonOS, the chain-agnostic agentic operating system powered by Neo, the event aims to unite builders shaping the future of AI-driven Web3 applications.
Subsquid’s latest upgrade did something few infrastructure projects ever manage: it escaped the purely technical bubble and landed squarely in internet culture. That moment came when Carbot Animations released a full video built around Subsquid’s Portal.
Decentralized intelligence is becoming a core layer of blockchain infrastructure. This week, Allora announced that its Predictive Intelligence network is now live on the TRON blockchain—giving developers native, onchain access to AI-powered forecasts across one of the most active ecosystems in Web3.
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Meta has made one of its most telling moves yet in the race toward AI-powered personal computing, announcing the acquisition of Limitless, the startup behind the widely discussed AI pendant that records, transcribes, and summarizes real-world conversations.
AntX has launched a new DEX built for traders who want CEX-level speed with full transparency and self-custody. Powered by its finance-grade AntX Chain, the platform already has over one million testnet wallets.
Singapore — The Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance has officially launched the ASI:Chain public DevNet, opening the doors for developers to experiment with a new Layer-1 blockDAG built specifically for autonomous, AI-native decentralized systems
Imagine a world where every device, every endpoint, every piece of data becomes both the battleground and the guard. That’s exactly the terrain Naoris Protocol is staking its claim on. Rather than building yet another blockchain, Naoris flips the script: it turns every connected device into a validator, a watch‑dog, a part of what they call a “cyber‑trusted security mesh." (Cover left: Youssef El Maddarsi, CBO at Naoris)
Dover, Delaware — Myriad, the Web3 prediction market protocol backed by the media powerhouses behind Decrypt and Rug Radio, has crossed a major milestone: $100M in USDC trading volume, over 6.3M trades, 7.3M transactions, and 400,000+ active traders since launch.