Web3 & NFTs

A Coinbase product manager says the self-custody wallet will gain agent features, building on two years of infrastructure development.

Version 0.2.0 of the zackb/tether GitHub project lets Linux desktops read iPhone texts, contacts and notifications over Bluetooth.

Research from EVE AI Lab and Anthropic explores how autonomous AI agents behave in a persistent virtual world with scarce resources and lasting consequences, aligning with Sui's pitch as agent-ready blockchain infrastruc...

Coinbase's layer 2 network is running a month-long contest that rewards real onchain usage over polished pitch decks.

Nasdaq-listed OpenWorld now offers tokenized common stock on Solana, issued by Backpack Securities and launched through Wormhole Labs' Sunrise, with no new shares created.

A 2.4-meter stainless steel and glass cube dedicated to Satoshi Nakamoto was unveiled in Buenos Aires, combining art, technology, and education to explore Bitcoin's principles.

Solana Labs has launched Leap, a mobile trading app backed by co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, combining crypto, stocks, ETFs and commodities in one platform while raising questions about competition within t...

EIP-8297, known as the Partitioned Binary Tree, has passed a mainnet shadowfork test. Full deployment is targeted for Q4 2026, with no specific activation date announced.

Claude's new beta lets U.S. paid subscribers connect bank accounts via Plaid to ask about spending and bills, while Anthony Pompliano alleges Anthropic sought inside information from his competing startup.

Anza CEO Brennan Watt has proposed a single authoritative rulebook for Solana to help independent validator software like Firedancer stay in sync and reduce the risk of network splits.

Base's fourth major upgrade replaces Flashblocks with five canonical blocks per second, adds millisecond timing, and tightens B20 token compliance.

Anza advised mainnet-beta operators to move to Agave 4.4.1 or Firedancer 26.10.6 before epoch 1079 begins, warning that older versions risk being forked off the network.

A new research paper outlines how EVM-compatible chains could adopt optional post-quantum transaction security using EIP-8130 and EIP-8355, ahead of Ethereum's broader quantum-resistance roadmap.

Janus Henderson has launched JQQQ, a blockchain-native fund tracking the Nasdaq-100, exclusively on Stellar. Strategist Patrik Bjorklund explains why tokenization must go beyond digital representations and address regula...

A photo album bought for under $100 at a Baileyville, Maine yard sale contained an 1865 Brooklyn Atlantics card that the Library of Congress calls the first dated baseball card. It sold for $92,000 in 2013.

The chip-design startup's first open-weight model edges past a far larger rival on TerminalBench 2.1 and posts 79.1 on SWE-bench Pro v2.0 Hard.

Thomas Chen, BNB Chain’s new Chief Business Officer, says tokenized assets need seamless wallet integration to move beyond speculation, even as Binance’s bStocks platform shows rapid early growth.

At Devcon 8 in Mumbai, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said centralized AI tools could lead to an AI arms race, while on-chain data shows ETH staking at a record high.

The Ethereum Foundation is promoting Kohaku, an open-source SDK and reference wallet designed to make private transactions a default feature, with a live demo scheduled for Devcon on November 3, 2026.

A BeInCrypto report shows most AI agent payments are worth less than a cent, and agents still operate within human-set budgets, raising questions about the gap between optimism and reality.