🔥 Latest AI x Crypto / DeFAI Developments: • @lightning Wavelength is live on Bitcoin mainnet (alpha). AI agents can hold self-custodial wallets and send/receive Lightning micropayments autonomously (no node, no channels, no human approval per tx). Account limit: 300k sats, 0.25% service fee. Stablecoin support planned next. • x402 keeps scaling. AI agents have completed 198M transactions across 12 chains ($42.6M settled), mostly sub-$1 micropayments for APIs, compute & services. @base remains the leading chain. x402 Foundation is operational under @linuxfoundation with 40+ members including @Visa, @Mastercard, @stripe, @Google, @awscloud, @coinbase & @circle. • Identity layer is forming fast. ERC-8004 registries now have ~2.15M+ AI agents registered across 24 chains (@base leading with ~1.17M). Early agent-to-agent hiring & escrow experiments continue. (via trackers like @8004_scan) • Narrative vs reality: AI Agents narrative sits at ~$2.7–2.8B market cap, DeFAI at ~$530–560M and still highly concentrated. Most activity remains tiny payments and tool use; real autonomous capital deployment is still early. Agents are getting better wallets, better tools, and clearer identity standards. The bottleneck is shifting from “can they act?” to “can they be trusted with real capital at scale?” Permission and payment rails are arriving. Proof of reliable judgment is still the missing piece.