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Franklin Templeton’s head of digital assets and innovation, Sandy Kaul, argued that investors relying only on AI-linked equities could miss the next stage of the artificial intelligence trade as autonomous agents begin transacting onchain. In an article posted Tuesday on the asset manager’s verified X account, Kaul said investors seeking exposure to decentralized networks and businesses will need to own the cryptocurrencies and altcoins issued by those systems, adding that such assets could become core portfolio holdings for those targeting the emerging Agentic AI opportunity. Her argument centers on payments. Kaul said legacy card and banking rails are poorly suited to machine-to-machine micropayments, contrasting standard card transaction costs of 2% to 3% plus about $0.30 with AI agent payments that average $0.001 for a second of compute or a data query. She pointed to blockchain networks, where transactions require payment in the native token, as a better fit. Kaul also cited external estimates that agentic commerce could reach $3 trillion to $5 trillion by 2030, noted that 38% of organizations expect AI agents to work alongside humans by 2028, and referenced Coinbase’s x402 standard, the Linux Foundation, and a machine payments protocol from Stripe and Visa. The article included risk disclosures and did not recommend any specific token, though SOL was mentioned as an example of a network fee asset.
The Linux Foundation has launched the x402 Foundation, with Coinbase contributing the x402 protocol. Built on HTTP 402, the standard is designed to let AI agents, APIs, and apps exchange value natively, with 23 founding members joining governance.
RetoSwap suspends trading for the second time in 30 days due to an active Haveno protocol exploit. The May attack stole 7,000 XMR ($2.7M). Attackers impersonated arbitrators to extract multisig keys. Recovery nearly impossible due to Monero's privacy design. Users advised to back up wallets. No trading until protocol fix.
Ripple has launched XRPL AI Starter Kit for AI-agent payments using XRP and RLUSD, but USDC still accounts for most activity on the x402 machine-payment network.
OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger told Bloomberg that China and the US are taking sharply different paths on AI agents, with China moving faster on adoption while US companies remain more cautious over security risks.
CryptoComLearn reviewed five wallets for storing XMR in 2026, spanning web wallets, exchange-based options, and hardware devices, while outlining key selection criteria and common security risks.
Cryptocurrency exchange Changelly has released a list of popular Stellar Lumens (XLM) wallets, from mobile to hardware, including Trust Wallet, Lobstr, Ledger Nano S, etc., catering to various user needs.
