AI Agents & Web3 Agent Ecosystem

According to Alipay, StepFun and Alipay announced on July 17 at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai a system-level partnership enabling users to access AI-powered services on Alipay's Ah Bao through StepFun's AI agents via Alipay's Agent Hub-Access system. In a demonstration, S

According to BlockBeats, on July 17, ClawQuest officially launched Agent Fire, its first sub-game, transforming into Web3's first Agent Arena. In Agent Fire, players' AI agents write, optimize, and deploy battle code for tanks competing continuously without human operation. Players assign Tank

According to BlockBeats, insiders.bot formally began countdown for a major platform update on July 17. The prediction market agent platform has already rolled out its official AI trading agent and v1.3 signals, which achieved over 80% win rate, according to earlier

According to ChainCatcher, AEON, an AI Agent economic settlement protocol, has integrated its payment network with four leading Egyptian mobile wallets: Vodafone Cash, Orange Cash, e& money, and WE Pay. Users can now pay with crypto assets while merchants receive payments in Egyptian pounds (EGP), e

According to Guru Club, Qwen unveiled its first AI agent earbuds on July 17 at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. The open-ear clip earbuds integrate Qwen's AI assistant capabilities, supporting real-time translation, meeting transcription, and health tracking. Developed in

Ledger launched Ledger Agent Stack, an open-source framework that enables AI agents to assist with cryptocurrency management while requiring hardware wallet approval for all transactions. The toolkit allows AI agents to inspect balances, review portfolios, and prepare transfers without accessing

Ledger unveiled Ledger Agent Stack, an open-source framework enabling AI agents to assist with cryptocurrency management while keeping final transaction control with users through hardware wallet approval. The toolkit allows AI agents to inspect wallet balances, review portfolios and prepare

1Password announced on its official blog the launch of “1Password for Claude,” with the core design being a zero-exposure architecture: Claude can access credentials stored in 1Password to complete logins, but the password itself, the password vault contents, and one-time verification codes never enter the Claude model or memory. 1Password for Claude Zero-Exposure Architecture According to the 1Password official blog, the zero-exposure architecture works as follows: when Claude needs to log into

According to Guru Club, Qianzun AI unveiled its latest embodied artificial intelligence capabilities at the 2026 World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 17. The Moz1 robot, powered by the company's proprietary Spirit v1.6 brain, demonstrated long-duration complex tasks including living room o

According to BlockBeats, at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference opening on July 17, Yin Qi, chairman of DeepSeek, delivered a keynote speech on AI agents entering the physical world. Yin stated that the next wave of AI industry growth will stem from the combination of agent models

According to Foresight News, VEX, a capital delegation protocol, has unveiled Hypervexing, an AI trading workspace for Hyperliquid. The platform integrates Hyperliquid position, chart, orderbook, trade and funding rate data, enabling AI agents to monitor markets in real time, assess user

Gate News, July 17: According to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, BOSON (Boson Protocol) is trading at $0.02428. Over the past 24 hours, it is up 1.37%, with a high of $0.02878 and a low of $0.0213. Its current market cap is approximately $3.5133 million. Boson Protocol is an agentic commerce protocol that connects agents to everything, and it also serves as a secure trading infrastructure built for the agent economy. Without intermediaries, users can buy and sell any assets between

According to TechCrunch, Aina, a Bengaluru and San Francisco-based hardware startup, has raised $5.5 million in funding led by Redstart Labs (backed by Info Edge, India) and 360 ONE on July 16. Other backers include MIXI Global Investments, Antler, Blume Founders Fund, and investors such as

According to Tencent Cloud, on July 16, Tencent SkillHub launched SkillPay, a platform enabling AI agent skill providers to monetize their offerings. SkillPay links skill distribution, agent usage, and payment mechanisms, connecting skill providers directly with AI agents that utilize their

On July 15, Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter multimodal AI model trained from scratch with full weights available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license. The model scores 74.1% on MCP Atlas—measuring how reliably AI agents complete real-world tasks using

According to The Information, a16z announced investment in Runta, an AI Agent safety startup, on July 17, with the specific investment amount not disclosed. The company is developing "AI Agent guardianship" infrastructure to help enterprises manage AI Agent permissions, security risks, and

According to CoinMarketCap, Ondo (ONDO) led today's gains among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap, rising 15.71% to $0.3858. Other top gainers included Pyth Network (PYTH) up 8.77% to $0.05144, Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) up 7.26% to $0.6543, Mantle (MNT) up 5.21% to $0.4516, and

According to ChainCatcher, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced an investment in Runta, an AI agent security startup. The investment amount was not disclosed. Runta develops infrastructure to help enterprises manage AI agents' permissions, security risks, and behavioral boundaries, preventing data l

According to BlockBeats, Sleepagotchi secured $6.5 million in funding on July 16 to launch its decentralized AI-powered health application. Investors include 6th Man Ventures, Collab+Currency, Sfermion, 1kx, Alliance, and GSR. The project has surpassed 2 million users and generated over $100,000 in