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Moonpay Grabs $Sol'S Top Aggregator

MoonPay has acquired DFlow, the Solana ($SOL) DEX aggregator that briefly outpaced Jupiter in daily volume, in a reported $100 million all-stock deal that adds over $50 billion in cumulative trading volume to MoonPay's platform.

Circle Launches Gas-Free USDC Nanopayments For AI Agent Economy

Circle has activated Nanopayments on mainnet via Circle Gateway, enabling gas-free USDC microtransactions as small as $0.000001 for autonomous AI agents across 11 blockchains.

Private AI Agents Have Arrived On Canton Network

Cantor8 announces the first fully private AI agent payment on Canton Network, powered by a Claude agent, as part of its university research program. The milestone marks an early step toward a Canton-native AI agent protocol dubbed p402.

Coinbase Unveils X402 Protocol: Universal Standard Embedding Payments Into Web Interactions

@Coinbase, @Stripe, and @Cloudflare have launched the x402 Foundation under the @linuxfoundation to establish a universal open standard for payments over HTTP. This new protocol allows AI agents, APIs, and apps to transfer value across the internet as seamlessly as they move data or send emails. Founding members include: Adyen, @awscloud Services, American Express, Ampersend. ai, Ant International, @Base, @Circle, @Cloudflare, Coinbase, Fiserv Merchant Solutions, Google, KakaoPay, @Mastercard, Merit Systems, @Microsoft, @0xPolygon, PPRO, Sierra. Shopify, @SolanaFndn, @Stripe, Thirdweb, and @Visa The x402 standard is a neutral, community-governed framework that supports both fiat and crypto rails, including @solana and @0xPolygon.