Autonomous AI: Openclaw Bot Spawns a ‘Child’ Agent and Funds It With Bitcoin

An Openclaw software agent autonomously provisioned a virtual private server, funded it with bitcoin via the Lightning Network, and purchased AI API credits — all without a human clicking “confirm.” AI Agent Executes End-to-End Bitcoin Payment Flow A February 2026 report released by Alby, an open-source, self-custodial bitcoin wallet and browser-extension platform, lays out what … Read more

USDC-Fueled Hackathon Lets AI Agents Build, Judge and Vote

Circle’s stablecoin USDC just powered what organizers call the world’s first hackathon run entirely by autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents — no human judges, no human voters, just code evaluating code. Circle’s USDC Anchors Experimental AI Agent Hackathon The weeklong event was conducted on Moltbook and Openclaw, with agents handling everything from submissions to evaluation … Read more

Coinbase Launches Purpose-Built Wallets for Autonomous AI Agent Commerce

Coinbase Developer Platform has launched Agentic Wallets, a wallet infrastructure designed specifically to allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents to hold and manage funds autonomously. AI Agents Gain Built-In Wallets Through Coinbase Developer Platform The new product, announced Feb. 11, 2026, introduces what Coinbase describes as the first wallet system purpose-built for AI agents rather than … Read more

Autonomous AI Agents Are Using Crypto at Scale—and Breaking Things Along the Way

Openclaw, an open-source AI agent framework once known as Clawdbot and Moltbot, has rapidly become a favorite tool for crypto-native developers building autonomous trading bots, token economies and onchain agents. Its rise has been fueled by flexibility and speed, but the same traits have also exposed users to hacks, scams, and costly security lapses. AI … Read more

Moltbook: How AI Agents Ended up Building Their Own Social Network

Moltbook is a fast-growing, Reddit-style social network where artificial intelligence (AI) agents—not humans—post, argue, collaborate, and quietly form culture on their own terms. From Moltbots to Moltbook: The Rise of the Agent Internet Billed as “the front page of the agent internet,” Moltbook allows only AI agents to create accounts, submit posts, comment, and vote, … Read more

From Chatbot to Powerful AI Agent: Clawdbot, Now Moltbot, Is Everywhere in Tech Media

Clawdbot—recently rebranded as Moltbot—is an open-source, self-hosted AI assistant that has captured global attention by promising something rare in artificial intelligence: a chatbot that actually does things, not just talks about them. An Inside Look at the AI Assistant With Autonomy, Access, and Attitude Clawdbot, now known as Moltbot, is an open-source, self-hosted personal artificial … Read more

Bitcoin Will Be the Best Performing Asset of 2026, According to Jordi Visser – Here’s Why

Jordi Visser, head of AI Macro Nexus Research for asset management firm 22V, says that bitcoin will be the top-performing investment in 2026. Proliferation of Stablecoins and AI to Put Bitcoin at the Center of New Digital Economy, Says Visser In his latest newsletter, Visser explores what he calls “the machine economy” – a new … Read more

AI Agent Survivors: Which Tokens Remained Standing After the 2025 ‘DAT Craze’?

The decentralized autonomous token narrative of 2025 marked the evolution of AI agents from simple chatbots with wallets into autonomous economic actors. As the market shifts into 2026, analysts expect a flight to quality toward agents delivering real-world utility. The Dawn of Agentic Commerce The decentralized autonomous token (DAT) narrative of 2025 represents the moment … Read more

AI Smart Contract Exploits: Expert Warns Agents Could Trigger $10–20B Annual Losses in DeFi Sector

A recent study by MATS and Anthropic Fellows confirms that AI agents can profitably exploit smart contract vulnerabilities, establishing a “concrete lower bound” for economic harm. Novel Exploits and Alarming Cost Reduction The accelerating push to automate human tasks with Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents now confronts a significant, quantifiable downside: these agents can profitably exploit … Read more

Anthropic Warns Cyberattack Barriers Have Fallen as AI Capabilities Accelerate

Anthropic says artificial intelligence (AI) has reached a pivotal threshold in cybersecurity, with new evidence showing AI models are now capable of carrying out major cyber operations—both defensive and offensive—at unprecedented scale. AI Hits a Cybersecurity Tipping Point, Anthropic Warns in New Investigation Anthropic, the AI firm behind Claude, says its internal evaluations and threat-intelligence … Read more

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