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In brief TRM examined roughly $52.7 million across 198.9 million x402 settlements. Screening out self-payments and other anomalous flows left $25.62 million in likely commerce. Agents accounted for a small share under TRM’s models, which cannot conclusively distinguish them from scripts. Most payment volume on Coinbase’s x402 protocol isn’t coming from AI agents, according to blockchain intelligence company TRM Labs.TRM’s report, published Wednesday, examined $52.7 million across 198.9 million settlements processed by known x402 facilitators on Base, Solana, and Polygon since May 2025. After excluding self-payments and other anomalous flows, researchers estimated that just 0.6%–7.5% of the remaining commerce by…

Update (Sept. 12, 2026): This article has been updated to include Christopher Harborne’s matching 36 million pound donation.Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has received 72 million pounds ($97 million) from two cryptocurrency billionaires after Christopher Harborne matched a record donation from Ben Delo.Harborne announced his 36 million pound contribution on Saturday, following Delo’s announcement a day earlier. The donations are jointly the largest ever made to a British political party. Harborne also gave 9 million pounds to the party in August 2025.Writing in The Telegraph, Harborne said Delo’s contribution had inspired him to match it. He said he expected nothing in…

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a same-owner requirement for stablecoin transfers that would sharply narrow how customers can move tokens such as USDT through licensed crypto firms. The measure remains at the consultation stage and is not yet an operative rule.Under the SEC Board-approved Sept. 3 consultation principles, stablecoins entering a customer account at a digital asset operator would have to come from an account or wallet verified as belonging to that customer. Withdrawals would likewise have to go to an account or wallet verified as the customer’s own.The consequence is explicit: a stablecoin deposit from another person’s…

North Korea (DPRK) is now using remote workers from third countries, including Iran and Lebanon, to aid its efforts to infiltrate US companies and obtain money to fund its weapons programs, NBC reported on Friday.An alert issued in July by the US government and several foreign agencies said North Korean IT workers “seek out contracts with the intent of remitting their salaries to their parent North Korean agencies. They also pose an insider threat to companies and are involved in data exfiltration, cryptocurrency theft, and theft of sensitive information.”As the US and other governments have moved to counter North Korea’s…

A revised version of the CLARITY Act is making its way in the news, with text posted on Senator Cynthia Lummis’ website. It would direct the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and Treasury. This version would determine whether people or coordinated groups controlling “non-decentralized finance trading protocols” must comply with securities, commodities, and anti-money-laundering requirements. The revised draft arrives ahead of a procedural Senate vote scheduled for Sept. 15, which requires 60 votes to advance. This is proposed legislation, not enacted law, and the outcome of next week’s cloture vote remains unresolved. This is a…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 10th, 2026, Chainwire Tech entrepreneur and angel investor Alessio Vinassa today announced the expansion of his investment framework focusing on the convergence of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, applying strategic risk-mitigation model lessons derived from managing high-pressure financial turnarounds to emerging enterprise technologies. Before he began investing across artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, Web3 and innovative finance, he faced a financial collapse that changed how he understood risk. Alessio reached a point where approximately €180,000 was due while only about €2,200 remained in his bank account. The situation left him facing the possibility of bankruptcy and forced him…

Dubai, UAE, September 10th, 2026, Chainwire Zamanat Fund CEIC Limited is the company’s first live proof point for regulated fund tokenization on ZIGChain focused on GCC private credit. Zamanat today announced its sponsorship of Zamanat Fund CEIC Limited (the “Fund”), a DIFC-domiciled tokenized private credit fund with a target size of up to USD 100 million. The Fund targets the GCC’s estimated $250 billion SME financing gap, with only 11 percent of SMEs across the region having access to credit. Closing a $250 billion structural gap in GCC SME credit Across the GCC, SMEs are central to economic growth yet…

Returning for its third year, Zoomex’s flagship global trading competition expands across crypto perpetuals, stock contracts, AI-powered trading, team competition, and interactive rewards Global, 10 September 2026 — Zoomex, a global cryptocurrency trading platform focused on derivatives, has announced the launch of the Zoomex World Trading Championship 2026 (ZWTC 2026). Returning for its third year, the flagship competition features a total prize pool of up to 5,000,000 USDT, the largest announced in ZWTC history. ZWTC 2026 introduces an expanded multi-asset competition format built around three participation areas: the Team Competition, the Solo Battle, and the Rewards Zone. Across these areas,…

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong shared his Bitcoin price prediction. He said crypto spot trading may be nearing its next bull market during an August 20 appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box. The CNBC segment was framed around Bitcoin price trends, the state of crypto, the CLARITY Act, tokenization, and Armstrong’s meeting with President Trump. BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says: – US crypto rules will move forward with or without the CLARITY Act– Bitcoin could reach $400,000 by 2030 pic.twitter.com/4axOaCSWKc — Crypto India (@CryptooIndia) September 10, 2026   Armstrong’s comments present an assessment from the head of a major crypto…

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase partnered with financial platform Moov to bring stablecoin infrastructure to more than 1,000 community banks and credit unions that are part of Moov’s customer base.The partnership will combine Coinbase’s regulated digital asset infrastructure and Moov’s payments platform to offer stablecoin payment acceptance, settlement and real-time funding, according to a Thursday announcement.The infrastructure will support use cases such as consumer stablecoin payments, merchant settlement and payouts. It will also offer businesses and merchants access to Coinbase custodial accounts.Community banks in the US typically have less than $10 billion in total assets and include state chartered institutions as well…