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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
Arthur Hayes转移1.941亿美元ETH至新钱包
币界网消息，Arthur Hayes最近将8,012枚ETH（约合1,941万美元）转移至新钱包地址0x6cd66dbdfe289ab83d7311b668ada83a12447e21。
BTC过去24小时爆仓7,711.93万美元
币界网数据：BTC过去24小时滚动统计的爆仓金额约为7,711.93万美元，涉及约5820个被清算账户。与24小时前同口径快照相比上升36.62%；与7天前同口径快照相比下降58.53%。
沪银跌超5%，焦煤跌近5%
币界网消息，沪银跌超5%，焦煤跌近5%，SC原油跌超4%，20号胶、沪锡、苹果、焦炭、橡胶跌超3%；燃料油涨超1%。
CoreWeave周三大跌超15%，创2月以来最大单日跌幅
币界网消息，CoreWeave周三大跌超过15%，收报65.78美元，创下自2月以来最大单日跌幅。公司债券亦跌至通常反映财务受压的水平。首席执行官Mike Intrator向员工发内部备忘录，形容市场反应“不理性”，并强调公司庞大的订单积压足以支持债务偿付。 他认为，CoreWeave股债价格下跌部分源于同业上市及融资受阻，相关负面情绪波及公司。他对公司的商业模式、客户、执行能力以及建立的财务体系仍有信心。
前特斯拉高管掌舵，引领Uber货运业务转型
币界网消息，前特斯拉高管掌舵，引领Uber货运业务转型。Rebecca Tinucci 出任 Uber Technologies 旗下物流部门的负责人，目标是让这项货运业务完美融入这家全球顶尖的科技巨头。上任一年后，尽管该部门仍处于亏损状态，但她的领导已初见成效。 今年8月，Uber Freight 报告了三年来的首次连续两个季度实现年度营收增长。尽管全行业需求疲软，但通过其网络处理的货运量依然有所增加。此外，Tinucci 表示，越来越多的客户正将更大比例的物流需求交由该公司处理。 作为 Uber Freight 的首席执行官，她在首次接受采访时表示：“如今，货主们更愿意、也更倾向于与更少的供应商合作，以简化他们的供应链。”
a16z裁撤招聘支持团队大部分成员，剩余员工将重组
币界网消息，硅谷风险投资巨头a16z已裁撤旗下负责为被投企业提供招聘支持的34人团队中的大多数成员。该团队是a16z长期向创业公司之一。根据调整方案，剩余员工将被重新分配至增长、加密货币等专业投资部门，未来各部门将根据自身需求独立组建招聘支持团队，而非继续依赖统一的中央团队。
中金：预计美联储10月暂停加息，12月再度行动
币界网消息，中金公司研报称，美国9月CPI季调环比上涨0.6%，同比上涨3.7%核心CPI环比上涨0.3%，同比上涨2.6%，均较上月反弹，且超出市场预期。涨价来源较广，能源、核心商品及房租均形成推动。油价高企加剧能源通胀，消费韧性与AI投资需求支撑商品价格，租金粘性则制约服务通胀回落。 通胀反弹强化了美联储继续加息的必要性，但由于近期美债收益率上行、美元走强，金融条件已部分收紧，美联储或保持耐心。中金预计10月仍可能暂停加息，12月再度行动，未来一年，美联储或仍将维持偏紧的政策立场。
海口市政府与宁德时代签订战略合作协议
币界网消息，海口市政府与宁德时代签订战略合作协议。据海口发布，10月14日，海口市人民政府与宁德时代新能源科技股份有限公司召开座谈会并举行战略合作协议签约仪式。座谈会上，双方围绕零碳城市建设、循环经济制造业、现代服务业、绿色金融等领域开展深度交流，共同探讨构建绿色低碳产业生态圈。