Solana's Agentic Acceleration Published on May 9, 2026 View in Browser Sponsor: MetaMask - Spend crypto anywhere online and AFK with MetaMask Card. Learn about MetaMask Card .  .  . ROUNDUP The Week Solana Brought Google to x402 Bankless Author: David Christopher This week’s biggest news came from the other

When used properly, agents can shrink DeFi’s attack surface while helping users react to live risk before it becomes damage.

x402 will need native integrators to succeed.

AI has finally given CC0 the expansion engine it always needed. The proof is in the games.

Agents are knowledge systems first. Local models make them more private, but security gaps loom.

On the heels of x402's latest advances, here's what we're watching right now.

With fake identities and misinfo surging online, proof of personhood is becoming table stakes.

Is Tempo's MPP complementary or competitive with x402?

Digging into 5 theoretical x402 products worth building.

It was another big week in this brave new world of onchain agents. Here's what we're watching.

Fully homomorphic encryption is years away from frontier scale, but the bar for "good enough" just got lower.

Conway wants to make agents self-funding. But is that innovation or an ethical mistake?

Ethereum's cryptographic guardrails may be our best defense in the face of corporate AI's safety failures.

The organs of an agent economy — payments, reputation, identity — have been built separately for months. OpenClaw might be the body they plug into.

AI judges could fix prediction markets, but only if their decisions are reproducible.

The ElizaOS ecosystem is paving the way to new kinds of agent arenas.

Understanding Google's UCP and how it compares to x402 agent payments.

ERC-8004 launches January 16, bringing onchain identity and reputation to autonomous agents. The machine economy's trust layer is here.

Where bots are already experimenting on prediction markets.

Understanding the most impactful changes of x402's V2 and assessing its protocol activity!

TAO emissions are changing. Here's everything you need to know.

The era of LLM-based smart contract exploits has arrived.

Breaking down the Solana-to-EVM migration, the CCIP integration, and what's still unclear about $ELIZAOS.

Understanding Noice's new Oracle agent and its vision of curated capital markets.

Seven AI-focused finalists will pitch at DevConnect in less than two weeks — track them before the market catches on.