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Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are no longer just talking to each other. They are paying for services, buying data and even purchasing access to tokens the AI models, with more than 138 million transactions recorded through the x402 protocol on Coinbase’s Base blockchain, according to a Chainalysis’ <a href="https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/north-america-crypto-adoption-2026/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">><em>Inside North America's $3 trillion crypto economy: Agentic commerce accelerates</em> report</a>. The United States dominates this emerging market. U.S.linked wallets accounted for 88.1% of the geographically identified payments for AI model inference, compared with just 0.1% for Chinese-linked wallets, the blockchain analytics firm found. "One possible explanation is that Chinese developers are more inclined to use open-weight models such as DeepSeek and Qwen, reducing their need to purchase metered inference services," Eric Jardine, Chainalysis' head of research, told CoinDesk. The findings, released Wednesday, come as Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and other payments giants <a href="/tech/2026/07/15/visa-mastercard-and-ripple-join-the-standard-letting-ai-agents-pay-in-stablecoins" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">have backed the x402 protocol,</a> while Coinbase <a href="/business/2026/07/23/coinbase-closes-the-gaps-in-ai-agent-economy-for-businesses-users-and-developers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">has begun allowing business customers</a> to accept payments from AI agents. Yat Siu, co-founder and chairman of Animoca Brands, <a href="/business/2026/08/29/the-next-trillion-dollar-currency-may-not-be-a-stablecoin-it-might-not-even-have-a-name-yet" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">recently told CoinDesk</a> that over the next few years he estimates up to 100 billion AI agents will be transacting on the internet and they will be using crypto. And crypto’s <a href="/business/2026/08/23/crypto-s-next-billion-users-might-be-ai-agents-and-they-re-paying-with-stablecoins" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">next billion users might be AI agents</a> paying with stablecoins. “Stablecoins are particularly well suited to the kinds of transactions we expect AI agents to make at first,” Stephanie Cohen, Cloudflare’s chief strategy officer, <a href="/business/2026/08/23/crypto-s-next-billion-users-might-be-ai-agents-and-they-re-paying-with-stablecoins" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">told CoinDesk.</a> Unlike traditional card payments, stablecoins can handle transactions worth fractions of a cent, allowing AI agents to buy data, computing power and other services without human intervention. The new Chainalysis figures offer evidence of growing use of those payment systems, although transaction counts alone do not establish how much represents genuine commercial demand. Much of the activity runs through x402, a payments protocol incubated by Coinbase that allows AI agents to pay automatically for digital services using crypto. More than 87% o
S&P 500 options are the hottest bet on this Hyperliquid exchange
Talk about options<strong> </strong>on the S&P 500 index, and you are discussing a beast of a market that trades trillions of dollars in notional volume every day. Crypto traders now appear to want to access it over a blockchain. Hypercall illustrates the demand. The options platform built on Hyperliquid, the <a href="https://defillama.com/chains" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">>eighth-largest blockchain</a> by total value locked (TVL), went live in June, and more than 80% of the $640 million in notional volume since then has come from S&P 500 options, the exchange told CoinDesk. Open interest, the value of contracts still outstanding, is about $49 million, of which $47 million is in S&P 500 options. While the numbers are small next to traditional markets and Deribit's crypto options business, which started shortly after the platform’s 2016 debut and now routinely sees billions of dollars in daily volume and open interest, they illustrate a growing trend: the desire to access financial instruments when conventional markets are closed. Hypercall lists daily, weekly and monthly expiries, including over weekends. "The volume is concentrated in options expiring the following day," Jake Sylvestre, founder of Hypercall, said in an email interview. "Traders can take a view on the next day's move or hold a position further out." Traders are gravitating to blockchains for exposure to traditional markets, including derivatives. Hyperliquid’s decentralized exchange (DEX), also known as Hyperliquid, <a href="/coindesk-indices/2026/09/10/crypto-for-advisors" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">has become a</a> go-to venue for placing trades and managing risk through perpetual futures, especially on weekends when conventional markets are closed and geopolitical tensions have repeatedly escalated. Hypercall takes Hyperliquid’s perpetual futures into the options arena. An option is a contract that pays out if an asset ends up above or below — depending on the details — a set price by a specified date. A call option pays off when the asset finishes above that price at expiry. A put option works the other way round. Traders use both to hedge against price swings and bet on direction, volatility and time. Each Hypercall contract has a $1 multiplier, which means each index point is worth $1 at settlement. A call with a 7,000 strike pays $100 if the index settles at 7,100. Contracts settle in USDC, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, against the average price over the final 30 minutes for Hyperliquid's S&P 500 perps. Trading around the clock is the draw. "Hyperliquid has become the best venue for trading these markets outside exchange hours," Sylvestre said. Hypercall’s exchange's market makers, the firms that quote prices, "hedge on Hyperliquid's perpetual futures, including on weekends when the cash equity market is closed," Sylvestre said. Earnings, economic data and company news can move an underlying asset while its home exchange is closed, and makers "hav
美国指数期权成交量为4,515,320张
币界网美股数据：美国指数期权成交量为4,515,320张，其中看涨2,277,757张、看跌2,237,563张。
ETH价格或跌至2300.86美元与2289.78美元，巨鲸79259枚ETH多头仓位面临清算
币界网消息，ETH价格可能跌至2300.86美元及2289.78美元，市场面临清算该巨鲸79259枚ETH（约1872.1万美元）多头仓位的风险。
150,200,000 USDT转移至Tether Treasury
币界网数据：据Whale Alert监测，150,200,000枚USDT（约1.5亿美元）已转移至Tether Treasury。
比特币闪崩1500美元，跌破81000美元
币界网数据：Coin Bureau报道，比特币在短短10分钟内闪崩1500美元，现已跌破81000美元，此外，以太坊也跌破2350美元。在过去24小时内，近10亿美元的仓位被清算。
韩国KOSPI指数触发熔断机制，为今年内第十次
币界网消息，10月15日，韩国交易所对KOSPI指数启动熔断机制，交易暂停20分钟，这是韩国股市今年以来第十次触发熔断机制。
全球衍生品交易所24小时持仓量排名
币界网数据：全球衍生品交易所中，24小时未平仓合约持仓量排名前三的平台分别为：Binance（334.57亿美元）、Hyperliquid（154.30亿美元）和Gate（134.71亿美元）。
Lookonchain：$ETH可能进一步下跌至2300.86美元
币界网消息，Lookonchain提醒，$ETH可能进一步下跌至2300.86美元，然后是2289.78美元。市场可能会清算这位鲸鱼的79,259枚$ETH（约1.8721亿美元）多头头寸，就像6天前发生的情况一样。
Modal完成7.5亿美元D轮融资，光Agent沙箱年化收入就达3亿美元
币界网消息，Modal宣布完成7.5亿美元D轮融资，由Accel领投，投后估值达到157.5亿美元。今年5月，该公司以46.5亿美元估值融资3.55亿美元，当时年化收入刚突破3亿美元。不到五个月，年化收入已超过10亿美元，使用量增至原来的3倍，业务同比增长超过15倍。 Modal主要帮助开发者运行AI模型、训练任务和Agent，无需自己采购GPU、搭建服务器。它整合了20多家云平台的算力，并开发了文件系统、容器运行时和调度系统。增长迅猛的是沙箱业务，年化收入已达3亿美元，平台累计启动近30亿个沙箱，客户涵盖多个行业。