AWS AgentCore Payments with x402.
Protocol Guild upgrades DAO to Agora.
ArbitrumDAO approves rsETH recovery.
Obol ships Stack v0.9.0.
AWS launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, adding native payment capabilities to AI agents built on Bedrock with support for the x402 stablecoin payments protocol. The release was built in collaboration with Coinbase and Stripe and enables agents to autonomously transact using onchain stablecoins and traditional payment rails. AgentCore Payments handles authorization, settlement, and receipts for agent-initiated transactions, extending the agent commerce stack alongside ERC-8004 trustless agent credentials. Read more
The Protocol Guild upgraded its DAO smart contracts to Agora Governor, moving control of its split contract from a multisig to fully onchain DAO governance. The new contracts use two proposal types: membership updates require 33% quorum and 51% approval, while weekly distribution proposals require 0% quorum and 100% approval. The upgrade brings Protocol Guild's legal entity under DAO control. Read more
ArbitrumDAO approved a temperature check vote to release 30,765.67 ETH frozen by the Arbitrum Security Council following the April 18 KelpDAO exploit. The vote passed on May 7 with 90.96% in favor. The funds will be routed to the DeFi United recovery effort, a 3-of-4 multisig controlled by signers from Aave Labs, KelpDAO, EtherFi, and Certora, and applied toward restoring rsETH's backing. Approximately 42 days remain before the transfer is fully executed across the onchain execution stages. Read more
Obol released Stack v0.9.0, the latest version of its distributed validator technology (DVT) stack. The release introduces agent-payable validators via x402, allowing AI agents to programmatically pay for validator services using OBOL. The release also ships Hermes as the new default agent runtime and introduces a Claude Code plugin. Read more
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