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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
The long-short account ratio for SOL contracts is 2.56.
币界网数据：SOLUSDT 4小时多空账户比为2.56，净多头账户数多于净空头账户。与24小时前同口径快照相比上升0.2056；与7天前同口径快照相比上升0.4518。
ETH清算压力：下方关注2,255.97美元，上方关注2,798.85美元
币界网数据：ETH现价约为2,412.81美元。如果价格下跌约6.5%至2,255.97美元附近，部分高杠杆多头可能面临集中清算；如果价格上涨约16%至2,798.85美元附近，部分高杠杆空头可能面临集中清算。目前下方清算区域距离现价更近，意味着价格若向下波动，多头清算压力可能更早出现。 其他值得关注的区域：下方2,171.52美元、2,008.66美元；上方2,816.95美元、2,822.98美元。以上位置根据公开市场价格和未平仓合约变化估算，不代表价格一定会到达，也不是涨跌预测。与24小时前同口径快照相比下降3.69%；与7天前同口径快照相比下降6.36%。
瑞银集团正在讨论的选项包括收购一家美国金融机构、与一家欧洲竞争对手合并
币界网消息，瑞银集团正在讨论的选项包括收购一家美国金融机构、与一家欧洲竞争对手合并，或将自身出售给一家美国公司。
ETH合约多空账户比为3.37
币界网数据：ETHUSDT 4小时多空账户比为3.37，净多头账户数多于净空头账户。与24小时前同口径快照相比上升0.7155；与7天前同口径快照相比下降0.0095。
鲸鱼钱包共质押125.5万枚HYPE，价值约1亿美元
币界网数据：OnchainLens报道，三只新钱包共质押了1,255,000枚HYPE，按当前价格计算总价值约为1亿美元。这三只钱包可能属于同一只鲸鱼，其中钱包1质押了460,180枚HYPE（约3684万美元），钱包2质押了449,900枚HYPE（约3598万美元），钱包3质押了345,250枚HYPE（约2762万美元）。
香港投资机构L2 Capital与Newton Labs达成合作，计划代币化5亿美元股权
币界网消息，据Tech in Asia报道，香港投资机构L2 Capital与区块链基础设施公司Newton Labs达成合作，计划在后者代币化平台上线后的24个月内，将总价值约5亿美元的后期科技及人工智能（AI）企业股权代币化。L2 Capital将成为该平台的首批合作伙伴，合格机构及专业投资者未来可通过链上持有相关资产，并在获准的DEFI借贷市场中将其作为抵押品。
Michael Saylor：AI将冲击人力密集型企业，资本将流向比特币等稀缺资产
币界网消息，Michael Saylor表示，AI将摧毁依赖人类劳动与人才的企业价值，股票投资者面临风险。资本将转向AI和机器人无法增加供应的稀缺资产，包括房地产、黄金和比特币。
加密市场永续合约未平仓量降至670亿美元，RWA合约增至90亿美元
币界网数据：据彭博社报道，过去一年主流交易平台的加密市场永续合约总未平仓量从810亿美元降至约670亿美元，其中RWA挂钩合约未平仓量从近乎零增至90亿美元，占总量的14%。同期，比特币永续合约未平仓量减少约80亿美元，以太坊减少约50亿美元，其他代币合计减少约100亿美元。