agentic finance

CFTC

2026-09-21 14:47:15

CFTC launches Frontier Forum series, first session to focus on AI and agentic finance

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, has announced the launch of its Frontier Forum series of public roundtables. The initiative is designed to examine emerging technologies that are changing U.S. financial markets. According to the announcement, the series will be led by the CFTC’s innovation task force and is intended to create direct conversations with builders, users, and researchers working across those technology fields. The first session is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 28, and will center on artificial intelligence and agentic finance. The update was cited from @ChairmanSelig in the source material.

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Ethereum

2026-09-15 12:00:00

Joe Lubin confirmed for Ethereum Ecosystem Summit in Singapore as event sets focus on institutional adoption

Ethereum Ecosystem Summit, jointly launched by Sharplink, BlockUnion and ETH HK Hub with support from Lido Institutional, is scheduled for Oct. 8, 2026 in Singapore. The event is aimed at Ethereum ecosystem builders, financial institutions, investors and on-chain infrastructure teams, with discussions set to center on Ethereum’s long-term value, institutional adoption and the direction of agentic finance. Ethereum co-founder and Consensys founder Joe Lubin has been confirmed as a speaker and will join Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom for a fireside chat titled "Ethereum at 10: from an idea to the future of open finance." The session will look back at Ethereum’s first decade and discuss the next stage of open finance. Framed as one of the Ethereum-focused events during TOKEN2049, the summit will cover three core themes: Ethereum’s long-term value, infrastructure and credible neutrality; institutional treasury strategy, asset tokenization and on-chain infrastructure; and the agentic finance technology stack built on stablecoins, tokenized assets, instant settlement and autonomous commerce. Supporting ecosystem partners include SNZ, EthSystems, EthLabs, Ethereum Institutional, HashKey Capital and Ethereum Singapore.

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Policy and Re

2026-09-01 07:22:21

Gemini, MoonPay, the Dallas Fed and BIS point to the same shift in agentic finance

A series of developments across enterprise AI, crypto lending, banking research and payment infrastructure is starting to sketch a shared direction for finance. On Aug. 25, Google Cloud rolled out Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, pushing AI deeper into workflows such as KYC, credit analysis, portfolio monitoring, bond issuance and financial research. Two days later, MoonPay said it had connected PayBox to Kamino on Solana, letting users initiate lending and access yield through interfaces such as Claude and ChatGPT. Around the same time, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas published research on what happens to deposit stickiness if deposits can move in real time and AI can automatically compare yields for households and businesses. BIS also referenced Project Agorá, which recently completed a real-money test tied to tokenized deposits and central bank money. Taken together, these events suggest the key threshold for AI in finance is not simply whether models understand finance better. The bigger question is when they are allowed to make bounded financial decisions on a user’s behalf and actually move money. The article argues that the market is not jumping straight from manual finance to fully autonomous finance. Instead, it is building narrower forms of authorization, execution and auditability that let AI act within preset limits. That shift could eventually affect treasury operations, programmable money, deposit competition and the way banks defend customer relationships.

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Robinhood

2026-08-31 13:45:00

Robinhood’s AI account push puts agent trading closer to real money use

A PANews commentary by Yuki (Liu Yuqing) uses a friend’s experiment with an AI-managed Robinhood account to frame a broader shift in retail finance. The account, run by an agent for more than a month, showed returns above 20%, but the article argues that the performance figure alone says little without a benchmark, drawdown data, or a full trading record. The more important signal, it says, is that users are beginning to hand real accounts to AI systems rather than using them only for research or idea generation. The piece traces Robinhood’s AI buildout from its 2024 acquisition of Pluto, an AI investment research platform, to the 2025 launch of Cortex and then to Agentic Trading in May 2026. Under that setup, users can open a separate Agentic Account, move part of their funds into it, and connect third-party models such as Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Grok, or a custom-built agent through Robinhood’s Trading MCP. Robinhood later expanded Agentic Trading from stocks and options into crypto, and also introduced an Agentic Credit Card. The article’s core argument is that the biggest product question is not whether AI can always outperform, but how platforms define permissions, limits, audit trails, and human override once an agent is allowed to trade or spend.

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Coinbase

2026-08-27 15:19:20

Coinbase outlines AiFi push, says x402 has processed more than 205 million transactions

Coinbase said on X that it is building a financial layer for AI agents, which it calls agentic finance, or AiFi. The company said the stack covers both agentic trading and agentic commerce, and is designed to let AI agents carry out payments, collections, value storage, and fund transfers within preset goals, permissions, limits, and security boundaries. Coinbase named four products as the core of that infrastructure: Coinbase Advisor, Coinbase for Agents, x402, and Coinbase Business. According to the company, Coinbase Advisor is an SEC-registered investment adviser built into apps for Coinbase One users, while Coinbase for Agents connects tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor to Coinbase accounts through MCP and lets users define operating conditions, security boundaries, and sandbox accounts for agents. Coinbase also said x402, an open payment standard launched by Coinbase and now managed by an independent foundation, has processed more than 205 million transactions and $53 million in volume across 200,000 sellers, with Coinbase facilitating 67% of that activity. The company added that USDC accounts for 99% of onchain agentic commerce transactions, x402 represents 97% of usage across agentic finance protocols, and the related activity runs on Base.

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XDC Network

2026-07-31 15:01:04

XDC AI pitches agentic finance with x402 payments and gasless USDC settlement

XDC Network is positioning itself as a payments rail for the emerging agentic economy, where AI agents do more than recommend actions and can actually complete transactions. The company’s XDC AI framework combines the x402 open payment standard with gasless USDC settlement, aiming to let autonomous software pay for API calls, book services, and settle trades in real time. XDC Tech, the U.S.-based institutional arm of the network, has also integrated Bridge, a Stripe company, to bring stablecoin settlement into that roadmap. According to comments from co-founders Atul Khekade and Ritesh Kakkad cited by Decrypt, the missing piece for AI agents has been a trust and settlement layer that can handle real-time payments, compliance, KYC, AML, dispute resolution, and spending controls. XDC says it wants to supply that shared infrastructure rather than have each business build its own rails. The company recently demonstrated its XDC AI marketplace at its New York office, where it said more than 100 representatives from banks, tech firms, VC, family offices, AI companies, and ecosystem groups attended. The broader bet is that AI agents, stablecoins, and enterprise blockchain will converge into a new transactional stack for trade finance, RWAs, and machine-driven commerce.

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Ethereum

2026-06-19 02:00:50

Joseph Chalom Says Ethereum Is Becoming the Trust Settlement Layer for Global Finance

At a VIP event jointly hosted by Futu, SNZ, ETH HK Hub and Sharplink, Sharplink CEO and former BlackRock digital assets head Joseph Chalom described the next transformation of financial markets as the Industrialization of Trust, arguing that Ethereum is becoming a settlement layer and trust commodity for global finance.

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