Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines.
Curve deploys Llamalend v2 on OP.
Devcon 8 Community Hub applications.
Unruggable launches ENS8004.
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Mastercard introduced Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a service that permissions, orchestrates, and settles machine-driven payments at machine speed across its global network. The system targets high-frequency, low-latency, low-value transactions executed programmatically between AI agents, and rests on four capabilities: credentialing each agent via Verifiable Intent, programmatically enforced permissioning and spending limits, transacting across providers, and guaranteed multi-rail settlement spanning cards, accounts, and stablecoins. More than 30 launch participants span payments and crypto, including Coinbase, Stripe, Aave Labs, Polygon, Ripple, and the Solana Foundation.
Curve introduced Llamalend v2, a lending framework that extends its non-custodial infrastructure beyond crvUSD into isolated markets built around Curve liquidity. The release lets the DAO approve markets pairing any two supported assets, makes range-based LLAMMA liquidations available by default, and lets Curve LP tokens serve as collateral so users can earn trading fees and borrow against the same position. It launches first on Optimism with three isolated markets, ETH/wstETH, wstETH/USDC, and WBTC/USDC, each at zero borrow caps, alongside a Merkl campaign distributing 100,000 OP, with mainnet markets to follow.
The Ethereum Foundation opened applications for Devcon 8 Community Hubs, physical spaces within the Mumbai venue where community groups host their own programming. The RFP runs June 10 to August 12, with selected hubs announced August 26, and centers on Ethereum's core properties: censorship resistance, open source, privacy, and security, collectively called CROPS. It explicitly welcomes a new Security Hub. Selected hubs receive a roughly 48-square-meter space for around 30 people, equipment, organizer tickets, and a dedicated stage session. Devcon 8 takes place in Mumbai from November 3 to 6, 2026.
Unruggable launched ENS8004.xyz, a web app that converts an ENS name into an onchain AI agent that other applications can find and verify. The tool combines five emerging standards: ERC-8004 for trustless agents, the Adapter8004 identity adapter, ERC-8217 for agent NFT bindings, ENSIP-25 for registry verification, and ENSIP-26 for agent text records. The combination lets a name advertise structured metadata, MCP server addresses, and other interfaces AI systems can read directly. Registration runs in three steps, with OpenSea resolving the bindings on the domain's asset page.
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