Artificial intelligence in business and finance: the companies, the money and the tools.
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MoonPay has become the first crypto onramp integrated into ChatGPT Apps, allowing users to buy crypto with Apple Pay without leaving the conversation. The move could mark the beginning of AI-native commerce.
Nvidia heads into earnings with analysts rapidly raising price targets as AI infrastructure demand continues exploding. Wall Street now believes the company could beat revenue expectations by billions as the global GPU race accelerates.
Chandler Fang, founder of t54, argues that the biggest obstacle facing the agentic economy is no longer AI capability — but trust, identity, compliance, and accountability for autonomous financial systems.
AntSeed launched a peer-to-peer marketplace for AI model access, allowing users and providers to transact directly through onchain USDC payments without centralized aggregators sitting in the middle.
Bybit captured over 77% of centralized exchange trading volume for BILL as the AI and identity-focused token surpassed $2.19 billion in daily global trading volume.
At Consensus 2026, CertiK warned that crypto’s biggest vulnerability may no longer be regulation — but the growing security risks created by AI, institutional adoption, and rapidly scaling onchain infrastructure.
As institutions and AI systems move on-chain, blockchain’s biggest challenge may no longer be transactions — but making data usable. At Consensus 2026, The Graph outlined why indexing, querying, and trusted access to blockchain data could become core infrastructure for the next phase of crypto adoption.
Nvidia's market cap surged to $5.5 trillion despite losing all China revenue to U.S. export controls, as agentic AI inference reshapes compute demand.
Concordium has partnered with Denmark’s national hockey team to launch verified AI and on-chain identity pilots at the 2026 IIHF World Championship — bringing agentic commerce and blockchain-based fan verification into mainstream sports.
Everything.inc ($EV), formerly SmarDex, has launched on Kraken and other exchanges at a $100M FDV, alongside a growing suite of AI-powered DeFi tools designed to bring institutional-grade trading infrastructure onchain.
AI adoption is accelerating faster than oversight. At Consensus 2026, Inveniam CEO Bill Papp explained why NVNM Chain is being built as a verification layer for AI-driven financial systems — designed to make autonomous decisions auditable, provable, and institution-ready.
XYO launched a new AI SDK that lets developers build onchain apps using Claude, Codex, and natural language — no Solidity or blockchain expertise required.
