Onchain Agent News

Franklin Templeton's Agentic AI Thesis Is Really a Payment-Rails Argument

Franklin Templeton's Sandy Kaul argues card rails can't price machine payments — the same reason builders shipped x402.

Franklin Templeton Says Agentic AI Is Crypto's 'Killer Use Case' — Two Different Claims Are Hiding in There

Franklin Templeton's Sandy Kaul argues AI agents need blockchain speed, not legacy rails. The infrastructure case and the token case are not the same thing.

Movement Labs files Chapter 11 — a receipt for what an unverified market-maker deal costs

Movement Labs filed Chapter 11 after a market-maker deal tanked MOVE 94%. The mechanics are a case study in unverified deals at scale.

openclaw v2026.7.2-beta.5

openclaw 2026.7.2-beta.5

hermes-agent Hermes Agent v0.19.0 (2026.7.20) — The Quicksilver Release

Hermes Agent v0.19.0 (v2026.7.20) Release Date: July 20, 2026 Since v0.18.0: ~2,245 commits · ~1,065 merged PRs · ~2,465 files changed · ~300,000 insertions · ~36,000 deletions · ~3,300 issues closed · 450+ community contributors The Quicksilver Release. Hermes is the messenger god, and this window we made him move like it. First-turn time-to-first-token dropped ~80% on every platform , reasoning

claude-code v2.1.220

What's changed Bug fixes and reliability improvements

codex 0.146.0-alpha.10

Release 0.146.0-alpha.10

eliza [internal] CI evidence asset store (part 2)

Internal infrastructure — not a software release. Continuation of the pr-evidence asset store after GitHub's 1,000-assets-per-release limit was reached. Same purpose: evidence media (screenshots, walkthroughs, logs) uploaded by headless agents that cannot drag-and-drop into the GitHub web UI. Files are named - . Never delete assets referenced by an open PR. Upload: gh release upload pr-evidence-2

ironclaw 1.0.0-rc.1 - 2026-07-20

Release Notes First release candidate of a rearchitected IronClaw. This is not an increment on the 0.29.x line — it is a ground-up rebuild of the agent runtime, storage, extension host, and web UI. The ironclaw binary is now the rearchitected CLI. The v1 monolith now builds as the ironclaw-legacy binary and is no longer published; 1.0.0-rc.1 publishes the new ironclaw binary only. This is not an i

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Introducing Claude Opus 5. It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 at half the price. https://t.co/GQWhcq2CQL

Hermes now has an optional skill for tldraw offline, @tldraw's desktop whiteboard. It reads your open canvas, edits it live, and can embed a script in the file so the drawing opens with working button

Hermes now has an optional skill for tldraw offline, @tldraw's desktop whiteboard. It reads your open canvas, edits it live, and can embed a script in the file so the drawing opens with working buttons and state. > hermes skills install optional-skills/creative/tldraw-offline https://t.co/3JbJ6KDnG5

Ling-3.0-flash, the new MoE model from @AntLingAGI, is now free in Nous Portal for the next week! At 124B parameters and 5.1B active, it's quick to run and built for agent workloads: coding, search, r

Ling-3.0-flash, the new MoE model from @AntLingAGI, is now free in Nous Portal for the next week! At 124B parameters and 5.1B active, it's quick to run and built for agent workloads: coding, search, research, and tool use. Try it free today at https://t.co/3Uj27KjSik

Uniswap is the venue for all tokenized value The protocol has now processed $250M in stock token volume on Robinhood Chain https://t.co/1XctLZgBYe

$20M in volume on Jupiter Gacha in less than 10 days! Collectors are coming back for more, and we’re just getting warmed up. Catch ’em all on Jupiter. https://t.co/1hUZ8V0MDG

Franklin Templeton Says Altcoins Are Key to the Agentic AI Trade

Digital assets head Sandy Kaul argues card rails can't handle $0.001 machine payments, making blockchain tokens the way to capture agentic AI value.

Franklin Templeton calls agentic AI next ‘killer’ use case for blockchain

Franklin Templeton’s digital assets lead said that the autonomous AI agent economy will increase demand for blockchain protocols hosting machine-to-machine micropayments.

Movement Labs Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

The company behind the MOVE token filed a voluntary petition in Delaware listing up to $10 million in liabilities, capping a year of governance disputes, a market-making scandal and a failed strategic pivot.

Movement Labs files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy months after token scandal

The filing comes after months of upheaval that included a controversial market-making agreement, an internal investigation into its MOVE token launch and a Binance ban tied to its market maker.

Poolin was bitcoin's biggest mining pool and now it's filing for bankruptcy

The Singapore-based company once controlled nearly a fifth of Bitcoin's global hashrate. Now it owes $173 million and is selling off what's left.

Coinbase's corporate customers can now accept payments from AI agents

Rolling out this week, Coinbase Business users will be able to accept payments from AI agents, done via the x402 protocol, developed and incubated by the exchange.