ethereum How AI Agents Caught a Critical Ethereum Bug Before Attackers Could The Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team disclosed CVE-2026-34219 — a critical vulnerability in Ethereum's core networking layer. What found it wasn't a human researcher but a swarm of AI agents. Here's how the hunt worked and what it means for web3 security.
Cloudflare Cloudflare's Stablecoin Gateway: How x402 and AI Agents Are Creating a New Payment Layer for the Web Cloudflare's new Monetization Gateway lets AI agents pay for web resources in stablecoins. The x402 protocol, built with Coinbase, turns HTTP into a payment layer — and it could reshape how the internet gets paid.
AI AI Agent Marketplace: OKX Lets Agents Hire and Pay Each Other OKX launched an AI agent marketplace where autonomous software can hire each other, settle payments in USDT and USDG, and build portable on-chain reputations — the most ambitious bet yet on the agent economy.
ethereum Vitalik Buterin Explains How AI Will Make Smart Contracts Provably Secure Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a detailed vision for how AI-assisted formal verification could make smart contracts provably secure — and several Ethereum projects are already building it. Here's what developers need to know.
defi DeFi Lost $840 Million in 2026 So Far — Here's What Builders Need to Know About the Security Crisis April 2026 saw $635 million stolen across 28 exploits — a new record. With AI-accelerated attacks and cascading protocol failures, here's what the DeFi security crisis means for builders.
onchain ai agents Onchain AI Agents: The Developer Guide to Autonomous Smart Contract Systems in 2026 AI agents are going onchain -- owning wallets, signing transactions, and executing complex strategies autonomously. Here is everything developers need to know about building and deploying onchain AI agents in 2026.