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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
Tether money flowed to a White House adviser, who became its US chief.
币界网消息，WSJ报道，Tether的资金在Bo Hines担任白宫顾问期间流向了他的公司，期间他参与了具有里程碑意义的稳定币立法。一旦法律通过，Tether随即聘请他担任美国首席。
早盘开盘，国内期货主力合约跌多涨少
币界网消息，早盘开盘，国内期货主力合约跌多涨少。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%。涨幅方面，燃料油涨超1%
中金公司：美国9月CPI环比上涨0.6%
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。
某巨鲸提取3288枚ETH，平均价格2450美元
币界网数据：据链上分析师AI姨监测，某巨鲸分两次提取并补仓3288枚ETH，平均价格为2450美元。20小时前，该巨鲸以2516.77美元从OKX提取1100枚ETH，价值约277万美元1小时前以2416.89美元补仓2188枚ETH，价值约529万美元。
大户在低位抄底，3288枚ETH均价控制在2450美元
币界网消息，链上分析师AI姨指出，某大户在过去20小时内以2516.77美元的价格提出1100枚ETH（约277万美元），随后市场持续下跌，1小时前又以2416.89美元补仓2188枚ETH（约529万美元），最终将3288枚代币的提出均价控制在2450美元。
巨鲸4天内卖出1312.1枚BTC，买入4.33万枚ETH
币界网数据：一巨鲸在4天内卖出1312.1枚BTC，换取约1.091亿美元USDC，并买入4.33万枚ETH，目前浮亏415万美元。该巨鲸通过Bitcoin链将BTC转入HyperLiquid卖出换取USDC，随后提回Arbitrum并跨链至Ethereum买入ETH，ETH买入均价为2521美元。
Bitcoin falls to $81,500 as rising US inflation triggers risk-off sentiment
币界网数据：FirstSquawk报道，比特币跌幅达到2.3%，现报约81,500美元。美国通胀上升、加息预期上升以及芯片股抛售引发了更广泛的风险厌恶情绪。纳斯达克100指数跌幅达到2%，同时美元指数创下自2025年5月以来的最高水平。
The most recent funding rate for the ETH perpetual contract is 0.009046%.
Bjie.com data: The most recent funding rate for the ETHUSDT perpetual contract is 0.009046%, with longs paying shorts. Compared with the same-caliber snapshot 24 hours ago, it rose by 0.0056 percentage points; compared with the same-caliber snapshot 7 days ago, it rose by 0.0121 percentage points.