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Crypto project code submissions drop 75% in 2025 as developers shift to AI
Odaily Planet Daily reports that the blockchain ecosystem is losing developers, while AI projects dominate growth on GitHub. According to Artemis data, since the beginning of 2025, weekly code commits for crypto projects have dropped from approximately 850,000 to 210,000—a 75% decline—while the numb...
MGBX to Launch Midnight (NIGHT) Spot Trading on March 12, 2026
Odaily Planet Daily reports that, according to official announcements, MGBX will launch spot trading for Midnight (NIGHT) on March 12, 2026, at 18:00 SGT.Deposit opening time: March 12, 2026, 17:00 (SGT)Trading opens: March 12, 2026, 18:00 (SGT)Withdrawal availability: March 15, 2026, 19:00 (SGT)A b...
a16z: AI Agent payment volume is much lower than reported, but infrastructure is growing rapidly
ChainCatcher report: a16z partner Noah Levine posted on X that while a previous Bloomberg article cited data from x402.org claiming AI agents completed $24 million in payments over 30 days, Allium Labs data shows AI agent transaction volume during the same period was approximately $3 million, and af...
Analyst: AI Agents' 30-Day x402 Protocol Transaction Volume at $1.6M, Not $24M as Reported
a16z partner Noah Levine posted that Coinbase’s x402 protocol has been integrated by Stripe, Cloudflare, and Vercel, with Google also incorporating x402 into its agent payment protocol.
However, statistics on on-chain payments initiated by AI agents via the x402 protocol vary significantly across ...
Tencent Responds to Allegations of 'Bulk ClawHub Data Scraping'
The Tencent AI X account (@TencentAI_News) responded to community allegations of “bulk scraping ClawHub,” stating: “We understand your concerns. SkillHub is a localized skills platform developed by Tencent based on the OpenClaw ecosystem, designed to provide Chinese users with improved skill availab...
Hyperliquid TVL surpasses $4.5 billion, 24-hour annualized fees reach $747 million
ChainThink message, March 12: According to DefiLlama data, the Hyperliquid platform currently has assets (supporting USDC and USDT) totaling $4.507 billion. The platform's annualized fees over the past 24 hours have reached $747 million, and the total perpetual contract trading volume over the past ...
Coinbase Allegedly Lobbies Against Bitcoin Small Transaction Tax Exemption
ChainCatcher report, according to BitcoinNews, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has been accused of secretly lobbying U.S. lawmakers to oppose a small-transaction tax exemption for Bitcoin, while advocating that such an exemption be limited exclusively to stablecoins. Previously, Bitcoin policy advo...
OpenClaw Founder Criticizes Tencent for Scraping ClawHub Data and Increasing Server Costs
ChainThink reports that on March 12, X platform user SnowShadow claimed that Tencent's AI Skills community, SkillHub, scraped all Skills from the official OpenClaw plugin center, ClawHub, and imported them onto its own platform.Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, responded: "I received an email ...
Kalshi Sues Iowa Attorney General and Racing and Gaming Commission
Odaily Planet Daily reports that the prediction market Kalshi has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Iowa against Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission, citing a "significant risk" of enforcement action to block its event contracts.Kalshi stated that its repres...
SEC Chair Paul Atkins on Tokenized Securities and DLT Opportunities
Odaily Planet Daily reports: On March 12 in the U.S., SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, while appearing on the All-In Podcast, stated that, from his perspective, distributed ledger technology (DLT) offers numerous potential advantages to the financial services industry. The industry is currently at a critic...
Billions' AI Agent Identity Verification Ranks #1 on OpenClaw
ChainThink reports that on March 12, according to official announcements, Billions announced that its Verified Agent Identity (AI Agent Identity Verification) skill has topped the OpenClaw identity leaderboard, signifying that over 3,600 AI agents and their underlying 3,600 users have successfully o...
Billions' AI Identity Verification Outperforms OpenClaw; KYA System Enhances AI Trustworthiness
BlockBeats news, on March 12, according to official announcements, Billions revealed that its Verified Agent Identity (AI Agent Identity Verification) skill has risen to the top of OpenClaw's identity leaderboard, signifying that over 3,600 AI agents and their underlying 3,600 users have successfull...
Odaily Midday News: OP Labs Cuts 20% of Workforce, Bitcoin ETF Sees $115M in Inflows
1. OP Labs is laying off 20% of its staff to focus on core business operations—not due to financial pressures;2. The founder of OpenClaw questioned Tencent's scraping of Skills and called on it to provide support to avoid increasing server costs;3. Bloomberg: U.S. prosecutors argue that SBF's reques...
CoinFello Launches OpenClaw, an Open-Source Skill for Secure AI Agent Transactions on MetaMask
ChainCatcher report: AI agent developer CoinFello has released OpenClaw, an open-source skill that enables AI agents to securely connect to MetaMask and execute on-chain transactions without requiring access to user private keys.
Built on MetaMask’s Smart Account Suite, OpenClaw leverages ERC-4337 ...
Bank of England Open to Alternative Stablecoin Holding Limits
According to Cointelegraph, Sarah Breeden, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, stated during a hearing before the UK House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee that regulators are open to a cap on stablecoin holdings and are willing to consider alternative approaches that achieve the...
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