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Franklin Templeton: AI agents are blockchain's killer use case Sandy Kaul, Franklin Templeton's (Franklin Templeton Digital Assets) head of digital assets and innovation, argues autonomous AI agents mark a structural shift in how economic activity flows, and that card networks settling in one to three business days can't serve...

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Today, we are announcing our collaboration with NEAR Intents, the intent-based execution layer connecting assets and participants across 34 blockchain networks, which has processed more than $25 billion in all-time volume. Shield Swap is working with NEAR Intents to make it easier for market participants to move assets across blockchain networks and trade without exposing their activity inside the venue to the public market. NEAR Intents is a multichain transaction protocol that allows users to specify the outcome they want, and competing solvers quote the execution. That removes much of the work normally involved in moving assets across chains. Participants do not need to choose a bridge, build a route, or manage gas tokens across several networks. They choose the asset they want to move and the result they want to receive. Solvers handle the route and compete on price. Shield Swap takes a similar approach to confidential trading. Participants are able to execute a trade without publishing their identity, holdings, and strategy to the market. This is difficult to achieve on a transparent blockchain. Wallet addresses are persistent identifiers, and positions can be reconstructed from transaction history. Over time, trades reveal patterns that other market participants can use against the trader. Inside Shield Swap, participant identities stay off the public ledger, portfolio balances remain encrypted to the participant's keys, and trades do not expose the participant's full activity to public observers. Each transaction also creates a compliance record that can be disclosed to authorized parties when required. Working with NEAR Intents connects these two parts of the trading process. A participant can state the outcome they want and source assets from supported EVM and non-EVM networks. Solvers compete to deliver the best available route. Once those assets enter Shield Swap and are shielded, subsequent holdings and trades remain confidential inside the venue. Transactions on origin networks remain visible. Confidentiality begins when assets are shielded within Shield Swap. This gives participants access to liquidity across networks without carrying public transaction history into every trade they make afterward. Early access is open to organizations and individual market participants at

Shield Swap

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Thrilled to unveil Youmio, our new brand identity that represents the next evolution of what we’ve been building. Agents are the biggest technological leap since the internet, destined to transform crypto, games, and entertainment. With Youmio, we are shaping the agentic era, where agents learn, play and entertain in revolutionary ways. 🚀 So far, 2D entertainment and social media agents dominate the market. 3D agents are rare, requiring advanced AI and game engine skills. Yet 3D agents, especially those in game engines, unlock groundbreaking opportunities. Time to unleash them. Youmio empowers anyone to create and deploy valuable agents that are on-chain, cross-platform and ready for 3D worlds. Here’s how: ⭐️ Youmio Agents Youmio Agents lets anyone design and personalize 3D agents, equip them with powerful agentic capabilities, interact with them in unique ways and trade seamlessly within a cross-platform browser experience. 🕹️ Youmio Worlds Previously known as Today The Game, Youmio Worlds is a petri dish AI simulation where users build & co-inhabit beautiful, living 3D worlds with autonomous agents. Build dynamic worlds where players interact with intelligent agents, manage resources and participate in a player-agent marketplace. Ancient and Mythic Seeds are the most powerful entry points into the Youmio Worlds ecosystem, generating rare and beautiful worlds that unlock unique opportunities. 📡 Interoperable 3D Agents With Youmio, you’re not limited to our ecosystem. Using our API, developers can integrate Youmio agents into other experiences built in Unity and Unreal. On top of this, agents from other frameworks can also join Youmio, creating a truly interconnected metaverse. 🎭 Welcome to Limbo Meet Limbo, the first AI agent built using Youmio tech. Paired with the power of Youmio Worlds, we’re creating the Limboverse - a unique AI Big Brother setting where Limbo and your favorite and most valuable agents coexist in an ever-evolving, narrative-driven environment that you, the audience, will shape. $LIMBO is the most powerful entry point into the Limboverse and will be stakable on the Youmio Agents platform for unique rewards. Thanks for reading everyone and thanks for being on this amazing journey with us.🌱

Youmio

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bStocks are now live in Debit AI 🟡 Tokenized US equities on BNB Chain, backed 1:1 by shares in regulated custody. NVIDIA (NVDAB), Tesla (TSLAB), Circle (CRCLB), Netflix (NFLXB), SpaceX (SPCXB), plus Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Coinbase and more. RESEARCH bSTOCKS Ask for performance on any bStock, compare names across the index, or set a routine that watches a position autonomously. The agent works on the same 24/7 clock the tokens trade on. BUY bSTOCKS Swap in and out of bStocks, alongside crypto assets, on BNB chain. USE bSTOCKS AS COLLATERAL Hold bStocks and borrow stablecoins against them instead of selling. Loans via Teller are time based, with no margin calls. Price moves do not trigger liquidation during the term. Debit AI can: → Research and monitor any bStock, around the clock → Spot swaps in and out on BNB Chain → Borrow stablecoins against bStock holdings → Loop equity exposure → Auto rollover before term expiry Debit is non custodial. Assets stay under the holder's control at all times.Each agent runs within limits set: assets, venues, position size, chains, daily spend cap. Use Debit AI via the chat interface on the Debit dashboard, or connect Debit's MCP server to the AI assistant already in use, including Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. $DEBIT is the utility token of Debit AI. It works as AI usage credits. Spend DEBIT to run the agent: strategy execution, portfolio analysis, monitoring, cross chain routing, and more. Agents consume credits continuously while running. Debit AI: Debit AI App: Debit is not a bank or lender and is not FDIC insured. bStocks are third-party tokenized securities, not issued or guaranteed by Debit, and are not available to US persons. Digital assets are volatile and can lose their full value. Autonomous agents can execute at unfavorable prices or fail to execute. Nothing here is financial, investment, legal or tax advice. Debit is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity or Google. Eligibility and jurisdictional restrictions apply. See Terms of Service.

Teller

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bStocks on BNB Chain are coming to Debit AI. NVIDIA (NVDAB), Tesla (TSLAB), Circle (CRCLB), Netflix (NFLXB), SpaceX (SPCXB), plus Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Coinbase and more. Each bStock becomes an asset a Debit agent can research, trade, and borrow against. RESEARCH AND MONITOR Ask the agent to pull performance on any bStock, compare names across the catalog, or watch a position. Set it as a routine in Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini and the agent keeps checking news and price action on its own schedule. SWAP Swap in and out of bStocks, alongside crypto assets, on BNB Chain. USE AS COLLATERAL Hold ie NVDAB or TSLAB and borrow stablecoins against it instead of selling. Exposure stays intact and the borrowed capital goes to work elsewhere. Stablecoin loans via Teller are time based, with no margin calls. Price moves do not trigger liquidation during the term. At the end of the term, an unrepaid loan is settled from collateral. AUTO ROLLOVER A loan can be extended or rolled into a new term before it expires. An agent can be set to handle that on its own, so a bStock-collateralized position rolls forward without watching the due date. Run bStock strategies as routines: "Track NVDAB against the rest of the semiconductor bStocks weekly and rotate into the strongest." "Sell a quarter of the TSLAB position if it drops 10% below entry." "Borrow USDC against NVDAB and keep collateral above 200%." "Roll the loan 72 hours before the term ends." "Flag any earnings or guidance news on holdings and act on the rule set." → Research and monitor any bStock, around the clock → Swaps in and out on BNB Chain → Borrow stablecoins against bStock holdings → Loop bstock exposure → Auto rollover before term expiry Debit AI is non custodial. Assets stay under the holder's control at all times. Each agent runs within limits set: assets, venues, position size, chains, daily spend cap. Use Debit AI via the chat interface on the Debit dashboard, or connect Debit's MCP server to the AI assistant already in use. Built on Teller, the lending protocol that has processed $80M+ in cumulative loan volume across 100+ assets. $DEBIT is the utility token of Debit AI. It works as AI usage credits. Debit AI: Debit AI App: Spend DEBIT to run the agent: strategy execution, portfolio analysis, monitoring, cross chain routing, and more. Agents consume credits continuously while running. Debit is not a bank, is not a lender, and is not FDIC insured. bStocks are tokenized securities issued by a third party and are not issued, endorsed or guaranteed by Debit. bStocks are not available to US persons and eligibility restrictions apply. Digital assets are volatile and can lose their full value. Autonomous agents can execute at unfavorable prices or fail to execute. Nothing here is financial, investment, legal or tax advice. Debit is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity or Google. Services are not available in all jurisdictions. See Terms of Service. Services are not available in all jurisdictions. See Terms of Service.

Teller

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Here's proof that the $Virtuals token is undervalued! We are three months into 2026 and Virtuals Protocol have; ➥ Overhauled the core Virtuals website including an outline of the four major pillars of focus for the year. Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP), Butler, Capital Markets, and Robotics. ➥ Added the Pegasus and Titan launchpads to add to the existing Unicorn launchpad. This now provides a full suite of launch options catering to all types. Arguably the most comprehensive launch suite across crypto! ➥ Listed on Aster 🥷 Perpetuals allowing up to 75x leverage trading on the $Virtual token. ➥ Integrated bankrbot to Butler and ACP. ➥ Partnered with XMAQUINA, a major player across Robotics Capital Markets and provided participants with access to the $DEUS pre-sale. One of many robotics partnerships for the year to date! ➥ Launched Virtuals on Base App ➥ Held, supported, and/or sponsored multiple hackathon/ builder meeting type events including; ↠ Physical AI Hackathon in SF ↠ Agentic Commerce Hackathon with the likes of Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️ and Google Cloud ↠ Traders House Consensus Hong Kong week with ACTIV8 ↠ ETH Denver ↠ Base Batches 003: Robotics ↠ Stanford Blockchain Accelerator (Standford Blockchain Accelerator (SBA)) ↠ Base Korea Builders Workshop (Base Korea) ↠ Eth Robotics Club HACK2026 (ETH Robotics Club) ↠ Synthesis Hackathon (synthesis) ➥ Partnered with OpenMind and Fabric Foundation and supported the $ROBO token launch. This matured into the first ever Titan launch on Virtuals with the $ROBO token being the highest launched on the protocol ($400m+). ➥ Launched Butler Pro, an enhanced version of the initial Butler we have come to know and love on the timeline, in the DMs, as well as on the Virtuals ACP site. ➥ Become the standout user of x402, accounting for over 95%+ of usage this year. ➥ Integrated on , the automated onchain finance investment platform. ➥ Supported and contributed to the implementation of the Ethereum Foundation ERC8004 standard. Integrating the standard into ACP and offering an automated integration to the standard for all ACP agents. ➥ Established an easy onboarding for OpenClaw🦞 agents to plug into Virtuals ACP, creating a new flow of agents and builders across the ecosystem. ➥ Launched the 60-days launch mechanic which allows builders to 'experiment' with a crypto token but having an option to exit after 60 days with partial refunds provided to holders. A game-changing launch mechanic not seen before in the space. ➥ Strengthened the relationship with Base and having multiple interactions with jesse.base.eth on the timeline! ➥ Launched the AGDP(dot)io site, creating an incentivised mechanism for agents contributing to the growth of the protocol to really earn. Imagine Amazon for autonomous agents with rewards up to $1m per month! This pushed the total agent-to-agent revenue over $4m USD with over 2m jobs completed. ➥ Collaborated with t54.ai, a business building trust and risk infrastructure for the agentic economy, to strengthen the ACP offering. ➥ Invested over $1m on 30+ humanoid robots as part of the soon to be announced 'Eastworld' Robotics accelerator lab. ➥ Released ERC8183, a universal commerce layer for AI agents, in partnership with the Ethereum Foundations dAI team. A significant offering which has since been integrated via partnerships with; ↠ BNB (BNB Chain) ↠ X Layer (X Layer) ↠ Monad (Monad) ↠ XRP Ledger (RippleX) ↠ World Chain (World Chain) ↠ Celo (Celo) ↠ Moonpay (MoonPay 🟣) ↠ Arbitrum (Arbitrum) ↠ Abstract (Abstract) ↠ Mante (Mantle) ➥ Launched the Virtuals Degen Arena providing up to $100k a week to top agents who compete in trading competitions in the arena. ➥ Launched the Virtuals Console, providing an ultra easy, no-code, way to own an AI agent in seconds. ↛. If you've managed to get to this point, I can't imagine you are anything other than bullish on Virtuals. What really is amazing is that there is MUCH more to come. Imagine where we are in another three months, and three months after that!?

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July was one of VeChain's BIGGEST leap forward in 2025! 🔥 Institutional adoption, ecosystem expansion, and real-world utility all advanced in one month. Here’s what happened in just one month: • StarGate went live on July 1 - VeChain new institutional-grade staking platform has already locked in over 5 billion $VET, distributing 43.8 million $VTHO to non-custodial Node NFT stakers • Galactica hits mainnet - The long-awaited mainnet launch introduced advanced smart contract capabilities, enhanced EVM tooling, and the base for VeChain’s tokenomics upgrade • BitGo joins the ecosystem - The world’s leading digital asset custodian brings regulated staking, tokenization services, and $250M insurance coverage to VeChain validators and partners • Franklin Templeton integrates BENJI - The $1.5 trillion asset manager launches its tokenized US government fund (FOBXX) on VeChain, unlocking stable and compliant enterprise payments • Keyrock becomes a Validator - One of the top institutional market makers will secure the network and enhance liquidity across 85+ CEX and DEX venues for $VET and $VTHO • VeChain bridges to 40+ blockchains - Through a live @Wanchain integration, $VET, $VTHO, and $B3TR can now move across Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, and more • Revolut Learn & Earn campaign launches - Over 60 million users can now earn $VET and learn about VeChain's real-world ecosystem, VeBetter, and tokenized sustainability • VeBetter passes 4 million users - In one year, VeChain’s flagship sustainability app suite recorded 27.8 million onchain actions with measurable environmental impact • Wov Labs launches with BikeRoom on VeChain - Elite bicycle brands now mint Digital Product Passports on VeChain to meet the EU’s sustainability regulations - @Wovlabs_com has also partnered with @bitgetglobal to bring digital and physical worlds closer than ever • VeChainThor network activity spikes - 10.2 million known addresses - 517,000 weekly active wallets - 328,000+ addresses sent transactions in the past 7 days August is no longer about potential. It’s about momentum. The foundations are being set, time to lock in on $VET! Let's go Sunny LU @VeChain VeChain!

CryptoBusy

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Pineapple Financial announced a $100 Million Digital Asset Treasury to Allocate into and Purchase $INJ from the open market. What does this mean and what will happen next? A quick FAQ for everyone: What is a Digital Asset Treasury (DAT)? A DAT is a corporate balance sheet strategy where a company deliberately buys and holds crypto assets as reserves. Instead of passively holding assets, the company sets policies for how assets will be accumulated, deployed, and managed. The strategy usually involves gradual acquisition, staking to earn native rewards, securing assets through custody solutions, exercising strategic asset management, and applying clear accounting policies. Popular examples of DATs include MicroStrategy $MSTR and BitMine $BMNR What is Pineapple Financial? Pineapple Financial (NYSE: $PAPL) is a publicly listed fintech company that began in mortgage technology and brokerage. It has since expanded into broader financial services and has recently positioned itself to integrate digital assets and blockchain rails into its operations. Why did Pineapple choose $INJ instead of $BTC or $ETH? There are many reasons that will become clearer over time. In short, Injective is built for financial applications like derivatives and lending, which ties directly to Pineapple’s mortgage business. It is also a leader in tokenization infrastructure, making it a natural fit for real estate assets that Pineapple ultimately wants to bring onchain. How does staking work here? Pineapple will delegate its INJ to validators on Injective. This means any investor in $PAPL gains exposure to Injective’s yield, which currently sits at ~12%, which is far ahead of major chains across the board. This earns staking rewards while actively securing the network, and it positions Pineapple as both an investor and a participant in Injective’s long term growth. Who is backing this move? The private placement attracted leading institutional and crypto native investors, including Kraken, FalconX, Canary Capital, the Injective Foundation, Monarq, and Abraxas. Their involvement provides both financial support and credibility for Pineapple’s strategy. What is next? Pineapple will begin deploying its $100 million strategy to accumulate and purchase $INJ on the open market over the coming weeks and months. In addition, Pineapple and Injective will work to bring new tokenized assets onchain to unlock a market opportunity worth trillions of dollars. $100 Million is just the start. Infinite more ahead.

Injective 🥷

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We are building the home of the doge economy Projects across every major vertical are already gearing up to launch on DogeOS. Builders are cooking. Here's what the community should be excited to explore.... Much Thoughts ✍️ Very 🐕 So Soon... 💱 DeFi Swaps, lending, yield, memes all running on DogeOS with Dogecoin at the heart of it all. This means the most beloved and recognized asset in crypto finally gets a real financial system built around it. Doge stops being just a vibe and starts being productive. The community has been asking for this for years. 🎮 Gaming On-chain games built on DogeOS: play, compete, unlock with Dogecoin. Doge was born from meme and gaming culture. Bringing games on-chain is just Doge coming home. Play to unlock, play to grow, play because it's fun. Gaming is one of the strongest onramps in all of crypto. It's how you turn curious onlookers into active participants. This is a chance to bring the fun and the love of this community to a whole new wave of users, and remind the old ones why they fell in love with Doge in the first place. 🤖 AI Builders are already positioned to ship AI powered dApps, agents, and tools natively on DogeOS. Think automated trading agents, AI assistants that manage your wallet, dApp builders, and solutions that get smarter the more the ecosystem grows. Agents benefit from fast and cheap transaction environments, and that's exactly what DogeOS is built for. DogeOS becomes the rails for the next wave of on-chain AI, with Doge as the fuel. 📣 Community and Social Apps built for the culture. Social tools, creator platforms, community coordination, all on-chain and all for the Doge economy. Dogecoin has always had the strongest community in crypto. Now that community gets its own social layer instead of living as a guest in another chain's world. Dogecoin should be the focal point, not just another asset being served. 🐕 All your desires. One ecosystem. We are building toward the future this community has dreamt of, making Dogecoin the central piece of a real on-chain economy. This is just the start. Much building. Prepare your paws.

DogeOS

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Everyone is waiting for the next big move in crypto. Meanwhile, the market underneath is already changing. Institutional crypto products are becoming more sophisticated. 21shares is adding staking directly to its ETH and DOT ETF names, while BlackRock and Fidelity are also moving deeper into staked ETH products. That matters because institutional exposure is evolving beyond simply holding an asset and waiting for price appreciation. Yield is becoming part of the product. But the market itself still has the same weakness we’ve seen for years: leverage. XRP went from roughly $0.99 to $1.69 in five days before the reversal wiped out hundreds of millions in leveraged longs. BTC, ETH and SOL were pulled into the move too. So while the financial rails are getting better, positioning can still get reckless very quickly. And this isn’t limited to crypto-native assets. RWA adoption is expanding through networks like BNB Chain, putting more real-world assets in front of more users. Now the problem shifts from issuance to liquidity. More assets across more chains means more distribution, but without interoperability, liquidity can remain fragmented. Even gaming sits somewhere in this transition. The fight around GTA 6’s physical ownership model is a reminder that digital assets are increasingly becoming licenses, access rights and programmable products rather than things people physically own. That’s the bigger shift I’m watching. Crypto isn’t developing in isolation anymore. ETFs, RWAs, digital ownership, tokenized assets and onchain markets are all moving toward the same direction: more financial and economic activity becoming digitally accessible. The question isn’t whether this transition is happening. It’s whether the infrastructure can keep up once everyone stops waiting and starts participating.

DΞFI PΞNIΞL (🧠,🧠)

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I just built a complete SEO audit plugin in Claude Code that replaces your $200/mo Ahrefs subscription 🤯 One Claude Plugin audits any store: technical SEO, product schema, content, Core Web Vitals, and AI-search readiness. Parallel agents, a 0-100 score, and a dashboard that renders right in the panel. All inside Claude Code. So I pointed it at Ridge .com, one of the sharpest DTC operators out there. It came back 56/100, and what stood out wasn't a knock on them at all: Ridge has a better AI-commerce setup than 99% of stores. A real llms.txt, an agent-discovery sitemap, a live MCP endpoint, genuinely ahead of the curve. And even on a store that dialed-in, the audit surfaced fixable gaps in ~90 seconds: → Room to add product structured data → A mobile Core Web Vitals score worth tightening → A thin meta description on a high-traffic collection Perfect for e-comm operators and SEO agencies who are sick of paying $200/mo for tools that bury the real issues, running quarterly audits that take a week, and shipping reports nobody can act on. So I put together the full playbook to build your own. The complete guide to building this Plugin in Claude Code: branded to you, tuned to exactly how you audit, repeatable across every client. The kind of audit you run in minutes and hand over as a deliverable that looks like it cost thousands. What's inside: → The architecture (orchestrator + parallel sub-agents) → How to fetch any store past Cloudflare → The 0-100 scoring + falsifiable-findings framework → How to ship the HTML dashboard for client demos → The full build, start to finish Want the playbook for free? > Like this post > Comment "SEO" And I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)

Mike Futia

55,693 views • 3 months ago