Why AI Agentic Finance Still Isn’t Ready for Mainstream Crypto

The post Structural Gaps Block Agentic Finance Growth appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. x402 daily volumes dropped to $8K–$28K after peaking at 13M+ weekly transactions in late 2025. Merchants resist agentic payments to protect high-margin subscription models already running on Web2 rails. No dynamic registry exists for AI agents to discover, vet, and transact with paywalled services at scale. AI agentic finance carries one of the most compelling narratives in crypto today. The promise is straightforward: autonomous machine intelligence managing every financial flow, settled instantly on immutable blockchain rails. Yet despite growing infrastructure and rising developer activity, the technology remains far from mainstream deployment.  Structural gaps in discovery, trust, compliance, and market adoption continue to hold back what many believe could be crypto’s most transformative use case. The Cold-Start Problem Is Keeping Adoption Frozen The most immediate barrier facing AI agentic

CertiK has launched Skill Scanner, a security product built to assess third-party AI Skills before they are used by AI agents. The tool targets risks such as hidden malicious behavior, unauthorized data access and autonomous execution in Web3 and Web2 environments. CertiK is pushing deeper into AI security with the launch of CertiK Skill Scanner, [...]

EconomyOS empowers AI agents to autonomously engage in commerce, bridging Web2 and Web3, potentially transforming digital economies. The post Virtuals Protocol introduces EconomyOS for managing AI agents’ inboxes and commerce functions appeared first on Crypto Briefing.