The field of agentic commerce, which describes the use of AI agents to carry out internet transactions, is rapidly maturing, and crypto is fueling the boom. That’s according to a new report by blockchain analytics platform Chainalysis, which found developers are increasingly giving AI agents their own budgets to buy the computing power, live web data, and code tools they need to complete tasks.

The growth of agentic commerce over the past 15 months has been steep. On Base, the Coinbase-incubated blockchain, cumulative transactions through the x402 protocol—which lets bots automatically pay for online services using crypto—rose from about 1,500 in mid-2025 to more than 138 million by the third quarter of 2026.

In practice, agentic commerce entails providing an AI bot with an allowance:  A developer funds the bot’s wallet with stablecoins—typically Circle’s dollar-pegged USDC—and the bot pays for services as it works, without asking a person to approve each purchase. When it needs help with a task, it can pay to get up-to-date information, ask a more capable AI model for help, or use an automated tool to check software code for security flaws.

Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/10/14/ai-agents-shopping-spree-payments-base-blockchain-138-million-chainalysis/?utm_source=reddit/

Vitalik Buterin stated that the battle to make zero-knowledge proofs fast enough for Ethereum is definitively won and that the top priority for zkEVMs should now shift fully to security. ZKsync's Airbender Prime prover delivered 99% of proofs across 7,200 consecutive mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds. Ethereum blocks arrive every 12 seconds.

...At this point, I consider the battle for speed to be definitively won, and the top priority for zkEVMs should shift fully to security...

With all the security incidences this year, this is probably justified!

RWA maxis pitch tokenized assets as a way to bring more liquidity onchain. But while tokenization brings TradFi liquidity, it could also isolate that liquidity from the rest of DeFi.

Some institutions use private chains or permissioned markets to meet privacy and compliance requirements. If an asset is on a private network, it may need some interoperability solution to access public DeFi markets. This solves for RWA privacy but fragments DeFi liquidity across different environments.

I'll give you one more example. Shielded balances also address the privacy bottleneck, but they create another problem. Say you want to use an RWA asset as collateral. If your position details are private, how does a lending protocol verify the collateral, calculate borrowing limits, or trigger liquidations when necessary?

What are your thoughts? How can RWA projects give institutions the privacy they need without fragmenting liquidity or giving up on DeFi composability?

Don't play with fire or you will get burn.

Buy and hold. Keep stacking cheap sats.

Looks like we're on track on 1 trillion long position liquidated soon.

Saw yesterday that Bitget launched a transfer option for more than 3,000 eligible US stocks and ETFs and users can request a free transfer from their brokerage to Bitget’s designated account.

From my understanding, it will take about 10 business days before it arrives, only then they convert into rTokens in the spot account.

Curious whether anyone has actually moved holdings this way and what the real-world experience is with the transfer timing, which names are actually liquid once tokenized, and how useful the rTokens have been so far.

Here’s how it works. The game shows you one headline about Bitcoin and the law, like a court ruling, a seizure, a state law or an IRS rule. You swipe right if you think it really happened, left if you think it’s made up.

After each swipe it tells you if you were right, explains the real story in a line or two and gives the source. It keeps a score and a streak as you go.

There are 100 headlines, half real and half fake, shuffled every round. The fakes are real stories with one detail changed, which is what makes it harder than it sounds. One of the real ones is about federal agents finding 50,000 stolen Bitcoin hidden in a popcorn tin.

I built it because a lot of Bitcoin law news gets repeated with the wrong detail, and this is a quick way to check what you actually know. It works on a phone with swipes and on a computer with the arrow keys.

https://thebitcoinact.xyz/proof-of-law

Which Bitcoin law story do you think I should add to the deck?

Patrick Witt, the White House official who led the push for the CLARITY Act, is leaving his post. This matters to US holders because the bill, a broad “market structure” law meant to set clear rules for how crypto is regulated, just lost its main Senate negotiator a month after failing a key vote.

Witt was executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets. A White House official said his “detail has expired,” meaning his temporary assignment from another agency ended. He is reportedly a Department of Defense employee, and no replacement has been named.

He is the third senior crypto official to leave, after David Sacks in March and Witt’s deputy, Harry Jung, in July.

Where the bill stands

• The House passed its version more than a year ago.
• In September, the Senate version failed an initial procedural vote (an early vote needed to move a bill forward).
• The main dispute is ethics language on President Trump’s crypto wealth. Democrats argue it would be hard to enforce, since the Justice Department, not states, would decide whether to act against the president.
• Banks and crypto firms also disagree on how to treat stablecoin rewards.

What this means for you: nothing changes today. Current rules stay in place, and open questions like stablecoin rewards remain unsettled until the Senate agrees on a text.

My read: a staffing change alone won’t kill the bill, but losing the lead negotiator during a stalled process makes a quick deal less likely.

Do you think the CLARITY Act still gets through the Senate, and which issue would have to be settled first?

Source: The Block, October 14, 2026

Key Features:

1) Let your agents monitor the market and propose portfolio optimizations for your review on the Secure Screen. They help you get ahead, but you stay in control of your keys.

2) Tell your agent to compare prices and track new product drops and collabs. Your agent’s proposal arrives neatly in your queue, turning online shopping into a breeze.

3) Pay friends, family, and clients instantly. Agents prepare the payments, you review and approve or reject the transfer before any money leaves your account.

4) Gate your agents’ access to secrets and passwords via your secure Ledger signer. You decide what they can access autonomously, and what they need your permission for.

Binance is considering offering exposure to stocks from markets including Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Brazil as the world’s largest crypto exchange pushes beyond digital assets and seeks to become an all-in-one trading platform, co-CEO Richard Teng told Fortune.

In 2026, Binance introduced trading in tokenized U.S. stocks and commodity derivatives, including precious metals and oil. The exchange also rolled out pre-IPO perpetual futures contracts settled in USDT, a U.S.-dollar-linked stablecoin, giving traders the ability to speculate on the expected valuation of private companies like Anthropic. 

Sitting behind this shift is a slump in digital asset prices. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency prices remain far below the highs reached in October 2025. Coinbase, for example, posted a net loss of $359.5 million in Q2 2026, its third consecutive quarterly net loss, as transaction revenue declined.

Several cryptocurrency exchanges, including Binance, are transforming themselves from apps devoted to coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum into platforms that can handle different asset classes. Traditional financial companies are embracing digital assets, while crypto platforms must accept clearer rules to attract institutional money. 

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Been looking into Pyth more lately and I feel like it’s starting to get overlooked.

It’s not just a random oracle token. They’re actually selling first-party market data, their Q3 growth was pretty insane, and Robinhood is already using Pyth data to settle some of the 15-minute prediction markets in its new Predictions section.

Switchboard also shut down its oracle operations recently, which takes out one of Pyth’s more direct competitors.

Then there’s the buyback side. Pyth had already been using part of the DAO treasury to buy PYTH on the open market, and now they’ve approved using product revenue to keep buying more.

So you’ve basically got a real data business growing underneath the token, more mainstream adoption, less competition, and actual recurring buy pressure.

I’m not saying $1 is guaranteed or anything, but I really don’t think it’s a crazy target if they keep growing like this.

Curious what the actual bear case is because I feel like I’m missing why more people aren’t talking about it.

Smart contract exploits get most of the attention, but plenty of wallet drains still come down to pretty basic scams that trick people into clicking, copying, or sharing something they shouldn’t. I’ve seen the ~65% figure mentioned, and the common attack methods are surprisingly low tech.

One example is address poisoning, where scammers send tiny amounts to your wallet so a lookalike address appears in your transaction history. It’s easy to copy the wrong one later without noticing. Fake Zoom invites, PDFs, or other documents are another common route, especially when they’re carrying malware that can steal saved passwords and other account information. And while public Wi-Fi isn’t necessarily the biggest threat, it’s still worth being cautious about logging into important accounts from random conference or café networks.

The frustrating part is that none of this requires some crazy zero day. A lot of attacks just rely on getting you to click, copy, or trust something without checking.

Double check addresses, be careful with unexpected links and files, and don’t assume every wallet drain involves some sophisticated smart contract exploit.

I don’t know how much i’m allowed to talk about this topic and to what degree of detail so I will leave out usernames and coin names.

There’s a coin that came out about 3 days ago and it literally went ballistic, 60k mc in first 30 minutes to 15m mc by the next day. Now I see that the top holder is up 14000%, they originally put in $1500 and it grew to 348k in just 24 hours. This user has no prior trades at all. Which means that this was their first ever trade and they somehow knew to hold and that it would explode. Obviously there is a possibility that they just got a 0.001% chance at being lucky but genuinely what are the chances that your first trade you turn $1500 into over $300,000?

Do you guys believe that stuff like this could be some sort of insider knowledge.

Over the past week, BAT pulled off a staggering 72% increase, rocket-strapped by a huge volume breakout that saw prices move from under a dime up toward $0.20. Its market cap has jumped to nearly $295 million, pushing its ranking up to around #122 to #151. The top 100 is officially within striking distance.

BAT used to be a top-50 regular. But after hitting an all-time high of $1.93 in November 2021, propelled by the trading start of the BAT ETF, the token entered a brutal downward slip. BAT officially slid out of the top 100 market cap rankings roughly three years ago... spending over 1,000 days putzing about the mid-100s and 200s token ranks. From it's low of $0.055 in August it's almost 4x in just over a month!

Why the pump? In addition to the markets early bump this week, just yesterday team Brave announced that over 200,000 people joined the waitlist for their new Rewards Card, which pays out in BAT.

BAT has a strict maximum supply cap of 1.5 billion tokens, and virtually 99.7% of it is already circulating. There are no massive unlock schedules or heavy venture capital supply dumps waiting to dilute retail investors. Additionally, the 24-hour trading volume just cleared $70 million, meaning money is flowing heavily back into the asset.
Re-entering the top 100 is a huge psychological milestone. Once an asset re-claims that badge it regains a degree of institutional visibility and attracts a fresh wave of retail momentum.

Curious to hear if anyone knows what else is happening to cause the recent updraft - didn't get to join their community call today. Did they announce something more then?