Index

A crypto Index provides a way for investors to gain diversified exposure to a specific basket of digital assets through a single tokenized product. These indices often track specific sectors, such as DeFi, DePIN, or RWA, and are automatically rebalanced via smart contracts. In 2026, AI-managed thematic indices have become the gold standard for passive investing, allowing users to track the "blue chips" of the Web3 economy without manual portfolio management. This tag covers index methodology, rebalancing frequency, and the benefits of diversified crypto baskets.

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$4.6 Billion Bitcoin, Ethereum Options Expire Today: Market Impact

$4.6 Billion Bitcoin, Ethereum Options Expire Today: Market Impact

The post $4.6 Billion Bitcoin, Ethereum Options Expire Today: Market Impact appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The crypto market is bracing for heightened volatility as more than $4.6 billion in Bitcoin and Ethereum options expire today. This pivotal event could dictate short-term price action for both leading assets. Analysts caution that the September expiry carries added weight, historically associated with weaker performance and lower liquidity across digital assets. Bitcoin, Ethereum Options Expiry Looms With $14.6 Billion at Stake Sponsored Bitcoin (BTC) dominates this round of expiring options, with a notional value of $3.38 billion. According to Deribit, total open interest stands at 30,447 contracts. The max pain point, where the greatest number of options expire worthless, is $112,000. Meanwhile, the put-call ratio is 1.41, suggesting an edge for bearish positions and a market leaning toward caution. Bitcoin Expiring Options. Source: Deribit Ethereum faces a similarly crucial expiry with $1.29 billion in notional value. Open interest is 299,744 contracts, with the max pain level at $4,400. The put-call ratio of 0.77 indicates stronger demand for calls (purchases), though analysts observe a significant build-up above the $4,500 strike. Deribit highlighted this skew. “…flows lean more balanced, but calls build up above $4.5K, leaving upside optionality,” Deribit noted. Sponsored Expiring Ethereum Options. Source: Deribit Analysts at Greeks.live highlighted Ethereum’s implied volatility (IV), indicating that short-term IV has surged toward 70%. This suggests heightened expectations for price swings after the Ethereum price corrected over 10% from its recent peak. “Weakness in US equities and the WLFI index has intensified market skepticism,” Greeks.live analysts wrote. In the same way, IV across Bitcoin maturities has rebounded to around 40% after a month-long correction. Notably, this pullback saw the Bitcoin price drop more than 10% from its all-time high. However, analysts see a defensive stance among traders. Evidence of this is accelerating block trading in puts, which account for nearly 30% of today’s options volume. Sponsored…

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Trump-Linked American Bitcoin (ABTC) Stock Falls Below IPO Price After 15% Plunge

Trump-Linked American Bitcoin (ABTC) Stock Falls Below IPO Price After 15% Plunge

The post Trump-Linked American Bitcoin (ABTC) Stock Falls Below IPO Price After 15% Plunge appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Shares of bitcoin miner American Bitcoin (ABTC) have dropped below its initial IPO price after falling 15% on Thursday, the day after its debut on the Nasdaq. ABTC was trading at $6.83 a share, down from its IPO price of $6.90. The company, which is 80% owned by Hut 8 and 20% by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, opened for trading on Wednesday after completing its merger with Gryphon Digital Mining (GRYP). On the same day, the company filed for an at-the-market equity raise of up to $2.1 billion, with which it plans to continue building its bitcoin holdings. Shares rose to a high of $14.65 during U.S. morning hours before falling sharply in the afternoon. Other miners, including Marathon Digital (MARA) and Riot Platforms (RIOT), are also trading lower on the day. Similarly, Bitcoin BTC$108,783.53 slipped 2% in the past 24 hours, moving in step with the broader crypto market, while U.S. stock indexes like the Nasdaq and S&P 500 are trading higher. American Bitcoin, which holds about 2,443 bitcoin worth around $269 million at its current price of $110,128, pairs bitcoin mining with a treasury strategy focused on holding the asset. Bitcoin mining has become a brutally competitive industry where survival depends on razor-thin margins and constant adaptation. Power costs eat up half or more of the revenue from each coin mined, while relentless expansion of the network’s computing power drives up difficulty and squeezes profitability further. Hardware makers like Bitmain continue to flood the market with new rigs, adding pressure even when demand slows. As a result, miners must secure ultra-cheap energy, maintain efficient operations, and increasingly diversify into areas like AI computing or data centers just to stay ahead. By stockpiling BTC in the open market, companies can benefit when prices rise, creating a financial…

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India and US Lead 2025 Global Crypto Adoption Index: Chainalysis Report

India and US Lead 2025 Global Crypto Adoption Index: Chainalysis Report

The post India and US Lead 2025 Global Crypto Adoption Index: Chainalysis Report appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The 2025 Global Crypto Adoption Index highlights India and the U.S. as leaders, with APAC driving grassroots activity and North America benefiting from regulatory clarity. Bitcoin Still the Primary On-Ramp as Global Crypto Use Surges The 2025 Global Crypto Adoption Index names India and the United States as the top countries for cryptocurrency adoption, underscoring […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/india-and-us-lead-2025-global-crypto-adoption-index-chainalysis-report/

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Strategy’s Potential S&P 500 Entry: Meeting Requirements But Facing Committee Decision

Strategy’s Potential S&P 500 Entry: Meeting Requirements But Facing Committee Decision

TLDR Strategy could become the next crypto company to join the S&P 500 index, with analysts giving it a 91% chance The company meets all financial requirements including $92 billion market cap and $5.3 billion positive net income Strategy holds 636,505 BTC as the world’s largest Bitcoin treasury company The S&P committee still has final [...] The post Strategy’s Potential S&P 500 Entry: Meeting Requirements But Facing Committee Decision appeared first on CoinCentral.

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Jia Yueting: Faraday Future has no plans to increase its holdings in treasury products through a share issuance

Jia Yueting: Faraday Future has no plans to increase its holdings in treasury products through a share issuance

PANews reported on September 5th that Faraday Future founder Jia Yueting stated on the X platform that Faraday Future (FFAI)'s core principle has always been "shareholders first." The company has no intention of issuing FFAI shares for treasury purposes. If new policies require the issuance of shares for such purposes, the company will strictly comply after they are officially implemented. On August 17th , Faraday Future announced the launch of C10 Treasury, a treasury product based on the "C10 Index." The initial phase aims to purchase crypto assets totaling $500 million to $1 billion, once the necessary funding is secured. The initial allocation will be $30 million.

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US SEC’s Work on Generic Listing Rules Delays 21Shares SUI ETF Approval

US SEC’s Work on Generic Listing Rules Delays 21Shares SUI ETF Approval

The post US SEC’s Work on Generic Listing Rules Delays 21Shares SUI ETF Approval appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed its decision on the 21Shares Spot SUI ETF. Yet another altcoin spot ETF to face a longer waiting period as the securities regulator works with major exchanges on generic listing standards for spot crypto ETFs. US SEC Postpones 21Shares SUI ETF Approval According to the latest US SEC filing, the government agency has extended the time for deciding to approve or deny the 21Shares Spot SUI ETF. The move comes as the commission is instituting proceedings to determine whether the proposed rule change should be approved or disapproved. Notably, Nasdaq filed with the SEC to list and trade shares of 21Shares SUI ETF under commodity-based trust shares rule on May 23. On July 22, the US SEC designated a longer period to approve the ETF under the proposed commodity rule change. In response to this, the commission has started proceedings to determine whether to approve the SUI ETF. It said: “The Commission requests that interested persons provide written submissions of their views, data, and arguments with respect to the issues identified above, as well as any other concerns they may have with the proposal.” The final deadline for the SEC to approve the 21Shares SUI ETF is December 21. However, the commission could approve the ETF along with other altcoin ETFs in October. SEC Silently Works on Generic Listing Standards Nasdaq, NYSE, and CBOE BZX exchanges continue to work with the US SEC silently on generic listing standards for spot crypto ETFs. The exchange filed amendments to their Commodity-Based Trust Shares ETP Generic Listing Standards today. The amendments were made to remove “excluded commodities” from the definition of “commodity” in the listing standard. Generic Listing Standard Amendments Nate Geraci, co-founder of ETF Institute, expects the generic listing rules to take effect…

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Bitwise lists 5 crypto ETPs on the Switzerland’s SIX stock exchange

Bitwise lists 5 crypto ETPs on the Switzerland’s SIX stock exchange

Bitwise has listed five flagship crypto ETPs on the SIX Swiss Exchange, offering exposure to Bitcoin, Ethereum staking, Solana, XRP, and a digital assets index.

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Coinbase Blurs the Line Between Tech & Crypto Futures — And Ave.ai Is Ready

Coinbase Blurs the Line Between Tech & Crypto Futures — And Ave.ai Is Ready

Coinbase Blurs the Line Between Tech & Crypto Futures — And Ave.ai Is Ready On September 22, 2025, Coinbase will roll out the Mag7 + Crypto Equity Index Futures, the first U.S.-listed product that combines top tech equities and crypto exposure in a single, cash-settled futures contract. But as Coinbase pushes into multi-asset derivatives, Ave.ai — a leading Web3-native, AI-driven trading platform — is also planning to launch a futures product soon. And while the two approaches are different, the goals align: empower modern traders with smarter, more strategic instruments. Coinbase’s Futures Product: Bridging TradFi and Crypto Coinbase’s upcoming futures index will track a basket of 10 assets: Apple, Microsoft, Google (Alphabet), Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, Tesla, Coinbase (COIN), and two crypto ETFs — IBIT (Bitcoin) and ETHA (Ethereum) from BlackRock. Each asset is equally weighted at 10%, and the index will be rebalanced quarterly to maintain this structure. The contracts are cash-settled, with a notional value that mirrors the index level. If the index hits $3,000, a contract is worth $3,000. This launch signals a shift — tech and crypto no longer need to be traded separately. It reflects Coinbase’s broader goal of becoming an “everything exchange” for both traditional and digital assets. Why It Matters to Traders For active and institutional traders, this index future offers Simplified exposure: Cover both equities and crypto in one trade Cross-asset hedging: Streamline risk management Capital-efficient: Trade smarter with fewer instruments Ave.ai Is Planning Its Own Futures Product — Built for Web3 While Coinbase plays to Wall Street, Ave.ai is building for on-chain native traders. The team is planning to launch a futures product soon, designed from day one for speed, flexibility, and AI automation. Ave.ai already offers a robust multi-platform experience — Web, Mobile App, and Telegram Sniper Bot — making it ideal for fast-moving traders across devices. With real-time token discovery, smart money tracking, whale alerts, and sentiment analysis across 130+ blockchains and 300+ DEXs, it’s one of the most advanced toolkits available today. Under the Hood: Ave Cloud & API 2.0 Behind the scenes, Ave.ai runs on its Ave Cloud infrastructure — equipped with Data API and Trading API to enable fast, secure, and customizable trading. These APIs come with MEV protection, low gas strategies, and real-time data delivery — a perfect fit for automated futures workflows. For developers and advanced traders, this means you can script, deploy, and scale strategies across chains with ease. This backend is what will power Ave.ai’s upcoming futures product, offering more than just access — it’s about building an edge. Strategy Playbook: Coinbase vs. Ave.ai Ave.ai’s futures product will focus on automated execution, on-chain intelligence, and user-defined logic — tools tailored to active traders and crypto-native power users. Final Thoughts Coinbase’s launch is a major milestone — the first time tech equities and crypto ETFs share a U.S.-listed futures contract. It’s a win for traditional finance and crypto convergence. But Ave.ai is building something different — a multi-platform, AI-enhanced, and automation-ready futures product designed for the next generation of Web3 traders. Ready to elevate your trading experience? Try Ave AI now: Ave.ai - The Ultimate Web3 Trading Platform Coinbase Blurs the Line Between Tech & Crypto Futures — And Ave.ai Is Ready was originally published in Coinmonks on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story

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Details of the Expected Airdrop Have Been Announced – Here’s the Distribution Date

Details of the Expected Airdrop Have Been Announced – Here’s the Distribution Date

The post Details of the Expected Airdrop Have Been Announced – Here’s the Distribution Date appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Yei Finance, one of the leading protocols in the Sei ecosystem, has published the official Token Generation Event (TGE) registration page. Users and liquidity providers can register for airdrop eligibility starting at 4:00 PM on September 4, 2025. The symbol for the new token is CLO (Clovis). Clovis is a new cross-chain DeFi protocol developed by Yei. The company announced that the Clovis pre-deposit vault will reopen next week. In the statement made by Yei Finance, it was stated that the TGE process will operate in three stages: Phase 1 (Registration): This will continue until 4:00 PM on September 30, 2025. Late registrations will not be accepted for TGE claims. Phase 2 (Allocation Confirmation): The Yei team will finalize the airdrop distribution. Phase 3 (CLO Claim): Users will be able to claim CLO tokens and begin using them in the Clovis ecosystem. The Yei Finance team argued that Clovis has evolved from being merely the largest dApp on Sei to a comprehensive DeFi operating system that integrates cross-chain liquidity. *This is not investment advice. Follow our Telegram and Twitter account now for exclusive news, analytics and on-chain data! Source: https://en.bitcoinsistemi.com/details-of-the-expected-airdrop-have-been-announced-heres-the-distribution-date/

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With funding from PayPal and Samsung, how is Kite AI building a blockchain foundation for the AI agent economy?

With funding from PayPal and Samsung, how is Kite AI building a blockchain foundation for the AI agent economy?

Author: Zen, PANews With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, shopping and payment methods are being reshaped. In April this year, Visa launched Visa Intelligent Commerce, using AI to connect the "from search to purchase" scenario, and cooperated with industry leaders such as Anthropic, Microsoft, Mistral AI, Stripe, etc., aiming to achieve personalized and secure AI commerce on a global scale. Last month, Google announced a new AI agent for basic service tasks - its design covers restaurant reservations and will gradually expand to local service reservations and event ticketing. Today, traditional giants are vying for the opportunity to establish AI agents as the next generation of mainstream user interfaces, extending their reach into the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors. Earlier this month, Kite announced the completion of an $18 million funding round, bringing its total funding to $33 million. The project builds a trusted transaction layer for the agent economy, enabling agents to independently transact, coordinate, and operate. The platform aims to provide autonomous agents with encrypted identities, programmable permissions, and native access to stablecoin payments. Unlike most Web3 projects, Kite counts several heavyweights from traditional industries among its investors—lead investors PayPal Ventures and General Catalyst, with participation from Samsung, 8VC, and SBI. So, why did so many leading institutions choose Kite? Building native economic infrastructure for AI agents Currently, most autonomous brokers are still deployed on centralized platforms, which are designed and optimized with human operators at the core. While this offers advantages in terms of ease of use, it forces brokers to rely on sometimes fragile authentication, authorization, and settlement processes, leading to efficiency bottlenecks and systemic risks. In theory, existing blockchain infrastructure offers significant advantages over traditional payment methods, including immutable logs, cryptographic proofs, and replicable smart contract logic. Furthermore, blockchain-based payments can eliminate intermediaries and enable cross-border micropayments. However, traditional blockchains, like Web2, are similarly user-centric and lack native identity and trust mechanisms for autonomous agents. Within traditional infrastructure, AI agents often "borrow" human identities to operate, leading to identity fragmentation and security risks (an M×N verification maze). Furthermore, the discrete block-based transaction processing of mainstream public chains is unsuitable for continuous agent interaction, and transaction fees for low-value transactions can be prohibitively high. All of these factors hinder the high-frequency, low-value micro-transactions of AI agents. This is why Kite created a dedicated L1 blockchain network. It envisions AI agents as a new user category in the Web3 ecosystem, designed to support autonomous agents with programmable trust and AI-compatible capabilities. It integrates identity, payment, and behavior verification into a unified and composable protocol layer. By building a complete set of native economic infrastructure for intelligent agents, it enables agent-based commerce to operate securely and at scale. The Kite team believes that in the future, the way people interact with the digital world will shift from direct human interaction to autonomous AI agents acting on their behalf. These agents will search for information, compare prices, place orders, sign contracts, manage subscriptions, and more, becoming the "new user interface." To achieve this, data must first be structured and verifiable. The next step is to build native identity, trust, and programmable payment mechanisms tailored for these agents. Transforming from an analytics platform, it raises $33 million in funding to build an AI "dream team" In fact, Kite didn't initially position itself as an infrastructure provider for autonomous agents. Kite, formerly known as Zettablock, positioned itself as an institutional-grade Web3 indexing and analytics platform, providing large-scale, real-time data support for networks like Sui, Polygon, Chainlink, and EigenLayer. The rapid development of AI and the fact that the founding team members have experience and industry background in both blockchain and AI have given them the opportunity to transform into the Web3 AI track. Kite's co-founder and CEO, Chi Zhang, holds a PhD in Machine Learning/AI (Statistics) and a Master's in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. She previously led data engineering product development at Databricks and served as Chief AI Expert at dotData. Another co-founder, Scott Shi, who also serves as Kite's CTO, previously built real-time AI infrastructure at Uber and was an early engineer on Salesforce's Einstein AI team. Scott Shi (left) and Chi Zhang (right) The two core members hold dozens of AI and blockchain-related patents and papers published at top conferences. The rest of the team also comes from companies like Uber, Databricks, Salesforce, and NEAR. With backgrounds from prestigious universities like Stanford, MIT, and the University of Tokyo, they possess extensive experience in blockchain protocol engineering and big data systems. Earlier this month, Kite announced the completion of an $18 million Series A funding round led by PayPal Ventures and General Catalyst, with participation from 8VC, Samsung Next, SBI US Gateway Fund, Temasek's venture capital arm Vertex Ventures, Hashed, HashKey, Avalanche Foundation, LayerZero, and Animoca Brands. This round brings Kite's total funding to $33 million. The funds will be used to expand its agent trading platform and enhance the ability of AI agents to conduct large-scale micropayments using stablecoins on-chain. PayPal Ventures has described Kite as "the first infrastructure purpose-built for the agent economy," noting that stablecoins and millisecond settlements are key technological gaps in AI agent systems, and that Kite provides a crucial bridge to these gaps. Furthermore, Kite is currently in a pilot phase, partnering with platforms like PayPal and Shopify to enable merchants to access the agent system through Kite's Agent App Store. Modular architecture and Kite AIR Kite's technical architecture is highly modular, focused on meeting the needs of AI agents. Its foundation is an EVM-compatible Layer-1 chain. Kite's official website currently advertises performance as "average block generation time of 1 second and near-zero fees." The network's underlying operating environment is a customized KiteVM, and it utilizes a novel consensus mechanism called Proof of Attributed Intelligence (PoAI). PoAI combines proof-of-stake (PoS) with an attribution mechanism, enabling transparent attribution and rewards for model and data contributions to tasks performed by nodes while validating blocks. This means that every agent's task, including model invocation, data provision, and transaction completion, leaves an auditable record on-chain, ensuring fair rewards for all parties. As infrastructure designed for large-scale, high-frequency AI agents, Kite's architecture prioritizes speed and scalability. Its cornerstone is a state channel mechanism that enables off-chain streaming micropayments and inter-agent communication with near-instant finality. Frequently transacting agents can open secure channels, enabling peer-to-peer, real-time micropayments or data exchanges without waiting for block confirmations. Billions of micro-events can be processed off-chain and periodically aggregated and settled on the main chain, significantly increasing throughput and reducing costs. This enables Kite to support streaming micro-transactions based on API calls, compute time, or data bytes, meeting the high-frequency billing requirements of the agent economy. The Kite team has also launched a series of tools and modules for developers and agents. The platform's Kite AIR (Agent Identity Resolution) system is designed to provide agents with secure identity, policy enforcement, a verifiable system of record, and programmable payments executed on Kite's custom AI-native blockchain. Kite AIR's core components include KitePass for verifiable identity and policy enforcement, the Kite Agent App Store for marketplace and service discovery, and the Kite SDK & MCP Server for agent integration. KitePass is Kite's agent identity module: each agent, dataset, or AI model can have a unique cryptographic identity, associated with corresponding permissions and reputation information. This identity system allows agents to be used across different services without repeated registration, while their operation history and permission scopes are tracked on-chain. Identity-based programmable governance allows agents to have fine-grained, automated permission control, such as setting limits on task types and fund usage, ensuring compliance with pre-defined rules at runtime. The Kite Agent App Store is a unified marketplace and service discovery engine for service providers and autonomous agents. Service providers can list their products and monetize their APIs, AI models, data services, or business logic through automated payment processing, while gaining market access, identity-based trust, and usage analytics. For agents and developers, the App Store provides a direct service discovery channel, automatic settlement via the Kite settlement channel (every transaction is verifiable on-chain), complete usage history tracking, and an interoperable consumer workflow that connects identity, payment, and discovery. Kite SDK and MCP Server are tool chains that connect applications to Kite's identity and settlement infrastructure: Kite SDK is aimed at agent developers, providing tools for building agents with verifiable identity, policy execution and on-chain settlement capabilities. It is suitable for creating autonomous agents, agent-driven business applications, cross-platform agent processes and prototype verification; MCP Server (Model Context Protocol server) is aimed at existing AI applications, enabling any MCP-compatible application to use Kite's identity and settlement functions, thereby allowing existing chatbots or AI assistants to participate in agent commerce, opening the door to agent capabilities for non-technical users, and realizing a bridge between traditional AI tools and the machine-to-machine economy. Aero public beta to Ozone upgrade, hundreds of millions of calls, tens of millions of users In February 2025, Kite launched its first public testnet, v1, codenamed Aero, on the Avalanche network. The network aims to enhance scalability and data processing capabilities while providing centralized coordination for AI workflows, including data providers, model builders, and autonomous agents. At the end of March, official statistics for the v1 Aero testnet were released, claiming that since its launch, the network has processed over 546 million AI agent calls, an average of approximately 11.4 million per day, executed approximately 32 million transactions, and connected approximately 4 million users, of which approximately 2.4 million are independent AI agent users. After a first phase of exploration, in late May of this year, Kite AI upgraded its testnet, Aero, to Ozone, positioning it as an interactive portal for Agentic AI. The product narrative shifted from "scalable AI infrastructure" to "the foundational layer supporting the operation of the agent economy." The launch of Ozone further expanded the Kite AI ecosystem. According to Dune data , as of September 5th, the network had processed over 634 million AI agent calls and connected approximately 13.6 million users. Daily active accounts and new additions have remained at a high level since mid-August, with an average of 4 million daily active accounts. In its official announcement of its Series A funding round, Kite began by stating its mission to “build the foundational layer for the Internet of Agents” and that its foundational layer powers the entire agent ecosystem through three pillars: Provide cryptographic identities for AI models, agents, datasets, and any digital service. Each AI “actor” or “asset” can maintain a unique and verifiable identity to support traceability, provenance, and governance. Programmable and fine-grained governance of delegated permissions, usage limits, and spending behavior – managing how AI agents operate autonomously “in the wild.” Instant proxy payments with near-zero fees enable autonomous systems to discover, negotiate, and pay for services with native access to stablecoins. Steve Everett, Head of Global Market Development for Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets at lead investor PayPal, commented on the product, saying that its simultaneous atomic settlement via smart contracts, coupled with real-time tracking and auditing across high-performance blockchain protocols, is a killer combination for programmable payments in AI-powered commerce. This opens the door to a truly global, automated economy where people, businesses, and machines can interact easily and trustfully. In summary, Kite's business model is deepening with the development of the intelligent agent economy. Its challenges lie in ecosystem development and technological iteration, while its strength lies in its early market presence. Whether it can stand out among numerous AI blockchain projects in the future depends on whether it can truly resolve the challenges of trust and settlement between intelligent agents, thereby providing a reliable foundation for automated economic activities.

Author: PANews