AEON, an AI economy settlement protocol, said it has integrated with Bre-B, Colombia’s national instant payment system. The integration allows users to pay with crypto assets through Bre-B standard QR codes, while merchants receive settlement in Colombian pesos, or COP. According to the announcement, AEON already supports more than 50 million merchants worldwide. With the Bre-B connection, the protocol is extending its AI settlement network into a local payment rail in Latin America. AEON said the move provides infrastructure for AI and AI agents to enter real-world commercial use cases and complete transactions and fiat settlement through a domestic payment network. The update centers on payment acceptance and settlement, linking crypto-funded consumer payments with local-currency merchant payouts inside Colombia’s instant payment framework.

Crypto exchange Bybit has added a new perpetual contract for AEON under the AEONUSDT trading pair, according to a newsflash published by Odaily. The contract went live today and supports leverage of up to 25x. The source report only states the listing and the maximum leverage available, and does not provide extra details such as launch timing within the day, trading rules, funding parameters, or related promotions. This is a straightforward product update centered on derivatives trading access for AEON on Bybit.

Gate has unveiled two user reward campaigns — a deposit-and-trade promotion and a CandyDrop AEON task — with combined prize pools of 10 million USDT, 5 ETH and 2.85 million AEON. According to the exchange's official announcement, participants earn extra rewards by depositing funds, trading or completing in-app tasks. The deposit-and-trade event runs until Aug. 10, 14:00 (UTC+8): users who sign up and keep a net deposit of at least 100 USDT for 24 hours receive 100 USDT, while those who reach 5,000 USDT in net deposits and complete 500,000 USDT in contract trading volume get an additional 0.1 ETH. The two pools are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Separately, the CandyDrop AEON tasks, open until Aug. 12, 16:00 (UTC+8), are backed by a total pool of 2.85 million AEON tokens, worth around 165,015 USDT. Individual participants who complete the designated tasks can earn up to 1,700 AEON, about 98.43 USDT. More than 20,000 users have already joined.

NVIDIA has open-sourced Alpamayo 2 Super, a new inference model for autonomous driving and embodied AI, as the company sharpens its push into physical AI and robotics. The model has 34 billion parameters in total, combining a 32 billion-parameter NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner visual-language reasoning core with a 2 billion-parameter Diffusion Action Expert. According to the company, Alpamayo 2 Super adds Chain-of-Causation reasoning, allowing it to simulate edge cases in a virtual physical world within milliseconds and derive optimal decisions. It scored 79.2 on the LingoQA autonomous driving benchmark. CEO Jensen Huang said physical AI and robotics represent the next major wave of artificial intelligence, adding that self-driving vehicles are essentially robots with four wheels. The report also mapped out Taiwan’s role in NVIDIA’s ecosystem expansion, naming TSMC for foundry work on chips including Thor and Jetson, Foxconn and Quanta for system integration and mass assembly, and several industrial PC makers for edge control hardware. Other companies cited include Solomon in 3D AI vision sensing, HIWIN and related firms in precision motion components, Mirle in pneumatic control, and Delta Electronics in lightweight power modules. The article added that the 2026 Taiwan Automation Intelligence and Robot Show, scheduled for Aug. 19, could add to market attention on the sector.

AEON, an AI-native payment protocol focused on the so-called agentic economy, completed its token generation event on July 27 and began trading on Binance Alpha, Bitget, OKX, Gate and KuCoin, before adding a KRW pair on Bithumb on July 29. The project says it is building a crypto settlement layer for AI agents rather than another consumer wallet, aiming to support verifiable and settleable payments as agents move from answering questions to making purchases and carrying out tasks on their own. According to data released by AEON on July 28, the network has more than 2.3 million users, monthly transaction volume above $30 million, coverage across nearly 20 emerging markets, access to more than 50 million merchants and cumulative processed volume of $475 million. The company said its stack integrates x402, ERC-8004, Google AP2/A2A and MCP, while local payment rails such as VietQR, QR Ph and Pix help convert onchain payments into fiat received by merchants. AEON also points to protocol ties with Coinbase and BNB Chain, an $8 million pre-seed round led by YZi Labs in May 2026, and a three-stage roadmap that stretches from payment verification to execution verification and, later, broader AI financial services based on KYA credit records.

AEON, an economic settlement protocol for AI agents, said it has expanded into Bangladesh and integrated with the country’s two major mobile payment wallets, bKash and Nagad. The move allows local consumers to pay for offline retail purchases and online spending directly with mainstream cryptocurrencies and widely used Web3 wallets. AEON said its payment network will handle the conversion process in the background and settle funds to local merchants in fiat currency. According to the announcement cited by ChainCatcher, AEON’s network already covers more than 50 million merchants and over 10,000 brands worldwide. The company said it is accelerating the buildout of a localized fiat settlement network across multiple countries to support real-world, high-frequency payment use cases for the agent economy.

According to BlockBeats, Bithumb will list RLUSD and AEON in its Korean won trading market on July 29. The brief update only states the planned listings and does not provide additional details such as a specific trading time or other launch arrangements.

AEON, an economic settlement protocol focused on the AI Agent space, has released new payment figures showing its user base has surpassed 2.3 million. The protocol said its average monthly transaction volume is now above $30 million, while cumulative processed volume has reached $475 million. AEON describes itself as a settlement layer built for the Agentic Economy. It said it is expanding across both Agent-to-Agent, or A2A, and Agent-to-Merchant, or A2M, use cases. The stated goal is to connect AI agents with payment and settlement flows in real-world commercial systems. The update outlines three core data points disclosed by the project: total users, average monthly transaction volume, and cumulative processed amount. It also highlights the two operating scenarios AEON is targeting as it builds out infrastructure for AI-driven transactions.