Ripple joins the x402 agentic payments push. The machine-to-machine bet

The post Ethereum Deploys AI Security Agents to Hunt Bugs, Discovers Critical Networking Flaw appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Ethereum Foundation used coordinated AI agents to identify a real protocol vulnerability. Validating AI-generated bug reports now takes more effort than finding vulnerabilities. The Foundation runs multiple AI agents with specialized roles, as per a July 9 blog post. The Ethereum Foundation has revealed that its Protocol Security team is using coordinated AI agents to audit Ethereum’s core infrastructure, finding real software vulnerabilities while adding that human verification remains the most important part of the process. In a technical blog published on July 9, the Foundation said the AI agents are being deployed against systems software, cryptographic libraries and smart contracts that support Ethereum’s protocol. One confirmed discovery was a remotely triggerable panic in libp2p’s Gossipsub networking component, which is used by Ethereum consensus cl

The post Ethereum Foundation Turns to AI Agents in Race to Secure Network From Bad Actors appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key highlights: The Ethereum Foundation has tested AI agents in a cybersecurity role The AI agents found real bugs in the shortest time possible, with the Foundation warning that security researchers are still required Ethereum is now bracing for its biggest network improvements since The Merge The Ethereum Foundation has announced a raft of positives after testing the capabilities of AI agents in spotting security vulnerabilities on the Ethereum network. Despite the successes, the Ethereum Foundation disclosed that AI agents are not replacements for security researchers as the network braces for seismic changes. Ethereum Foundation unleashes AI agents to spot vulnerabilities According to a blog post by the research nonprofit, the experiments with coordinated AI agents for identifying network vulnerabilities recorded impressive success levels. Right off the bat

Ripple Remedies Fight Gets Another SEC Filing as Final Penalty Debate Drags On is the kind of crypto story that looks simple at headline level but becomes more useful once you place it inside the wider market backdrop. The Ripple case has

The post CRCL Stock Price Gains 7% as Circle Secures OCC Charter for National Trust Bank appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key highlights: The OCC has approved Circle’s application to launch a national trust bank The bank can offer crypto custody services under federal oversight Ripple, BitGo, and Paxos are still waiting for final approval Ark Invest buys 217,896  CRCL stocks Circle has reportedly secured approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish the Circle National Trust. The development marks a major milestone in the company’s expansion of its USDC stablecoin business, and has resulted in CRCL stock gaining roughly 7%.   With this approval, Circle has become one of the first crypto companies to get a regulatory nod from the OCC to launch a chartered bank. Other major players, including Ripple, are still waiting for the final approval to become a federally regulated trust bank. Circle gets OCC nod to launch National Trust Bank Circle, the iss

The post Jensen Huang Sees AI Agents Redefining the Future of Software Work appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Huang says AI agents move engineers from routine coding to system design and automation.  Agentic systems create new skills as developers build AI tools for workplace tasks.  Huang rejects extreme AI fears and urges balanced warnings from technology leaders. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI is changing software engineering by moving developers away from repetitive coding. He said engineers are now building agents, systems, and tools that could automate complex work across the workplace. In an interview published by Nvidia on Wednesday, Huang said “agentic systems” are creating a new category of technical skills. He said many software engineers are now working on agents instead of routine coding tasks.   AI Agents Redefine Software Engineering Roles Huang said agentic systems are creating new technical skills, with many software engineers now focused on building agents. He add

The post Ripple joins the x402 agentic payments push. The machine-to-machine bet appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The x402 standard revives a dormant corner of the web’s original design, the 402 Payment Required status code, to let AI agents pay for services autonomously, per call, with no accounts and no cards. Ripple has moved to put the XRP Ledger and RLUSD inside that standard, betting that when machines become the economy’s newest customers, they will settle on its rails. Summary Ripple is integrating the XRP Ledger and RLUSD with the x402 payment standard to support autonomous AI agents making on chain payments. The analysis finds RLUSD is likely to handle most settlement flows while XRP could benefit through transaction fees, liquidity routing and wallet reserve requirements. The long term opportunity depends on whether machine to machine payments gain broad adoption and whether Ripple can capture enterprise settlement activity ahead of competing networks. This is the honest

The post OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs back dispute resolution court for AI agents appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. A group of crypto and Web3 firms that includes OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs and Genlayer have formed the “Internet Court” to reach dispute resolutions between AI agents. These days, AI agents negotiate and pay one another without humans in the loop, but as with human-to-human transactions, agent-to-agent transactions will run into contractual disagreements. The problem is that agentic systems have no way to settle these disputes, and traditional courts are not built to handle such cases. Hence the need for the 27-firm-backed protocol, led by the Genlayer Foundation, which makes AI-based payments, escrow and dispute resolution interoperable, according to a press release. Agentic commerce is not prepared for the potential fallout when agents disagree at machine speed, according to David Riudor, CEO and co-founder of the GenLayer Foundation. “Internet Court is the shared plac

The post ‘What an Amazing Coincidence’: Ripple CTO Emeritus Reacts to Multi-Million XRP Deal appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Former Ripple Chief Technology Officer and current CTO Emeritus David Schwartz sarcastically commented on the company’s new sponsorship deal with the University of Kansas athletics department and the Kansas Jayhawks. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse previously announced that the XRP logo would appear on the teams’ uniforms, marking the first such integration in the history of US college sports.  According to sports insiders, like Ben Portnoy, the major five-year contract is valued at approximately $30 million. Schwartz’s post was an obvious inside joke as Ripple’s multimillion-dollar marketing budget predictably went exactly where the CEO’s personal loyalties pointed. Schwartz entered the comments and replied briefly: “What an amazing coincidence!” The former CTO’s reaction points to a well-known background, as Garlinghouse not only graduated from the university