Agent infrastructure is hitting a wall. While early development prioritized runtime environments and basic interoperability, the industry is now grappling with a more fundamental question: how do we move beyond agents as mere services to agents as autonomous economic actors? Virtuals Protocol is attempting to answer this by building a stack that treats economic agency…
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2026 has crystallized a fundamental divergence in how agent infrastructure is being architected globally. While the Western ecosystem remains locked in a cycle of fragmented, vendor-specific protocol competition, China is rapidly consolidating a coordinated, full-stack infrastructure model. This shift moves beyond mere software updates; it represents a structural reordering…
What Agent Identity Means When an AI agent books a flight, signs a contract, or moves money, someone — or something — needs to vouch for it. That vouching system is agent identity: the credential, capability boundary, and action record that tell the rest of the system which agent is acting, what it is allowed…
Learn what delegation is in AI agents, how it works through privilege attenuation, common patterns like orchestrator-workers, and why multi-hop delegation is a key unsolved challenge in agent security.
An IETF draft from Cisco Systems defines a single ‘_agent._tcp’ service type over mDNS/DNS-SD that lets agents find each other on local networks with zero configuration. A2A is the first protocol instantiation.
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One of the world’s largest digital currency asset management company has changed CEOs.
Crypto exchange Coinbase suffers a major outage, affecting traders during Bitcoin volatility.
Global crypto exchange OKX begins offering trading services in Australia, including spot and derivatives.