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The self-custodial wallet lets AI agents trade autonomously across DeFi under user-set spend limits, with mandatory security checks on every transaction.
MetaMask's new self-custodial AI agent wallet went live for all users, with Cubist's CubeSigner and Confidential Cloud Functions securing key management and policy enforcement.
NEAR enabled staking NEAR for confidential AI inference
Users can now stake NEAR to fund private inference across 40+ models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and others while keeping their tokens.
NEAR launched Nearcore 2.13 with quantum-safe signatures
The mainnet upgrade adds NIST-approved FIPS-204 (ML-DSA-65) signing plus dynamic resharding that expands network capacity without manual coordination.
NEAR co-founder proposes protocol Sovereign Fund to cut inflation
Illia Polosukhin's governance proposal would route protocol revenue into a NEAR-denominated fund modeled on sovereign wealth funds to pay for validator support and security.
StarkWare open-sources PriPay private payroll tool for Starknet
The confidential payroll application, built on the STRK20 privacy standard, hides salary flows from block explorers while keeping a full audit trail.
Extended hits 100+ live RWA markets on Starknet, targets 1,000+ via TradFi liquidity
StarkWare spotlighted Extended's RFQ model bringing equities, commodities, indices, and FX onchain on Starknet, as the protocol scales toward 1,000+ RWA listings.
Endur.fi launches private liquid staking for STRK and strkBTC on Starknet
Users can now stake from inside a private pool without moving assets to a public wallet first, keeping balances hidden through the full staking and yield-accrual cycle.
EFF opposes Youth AI Privacy Act as Senate committee advances the bill
EFF argues the bill's age-gating and "safe design" mandates would increase data collection and restrict speech, even as the Senate Commerce Committee voted it forward.
Ninth Circuit rules AI browser assistant doesn't violate CFAA, backing EFF's amicus…
Appeals court vacated Amazon's injunction against Perplexity's Comet browser, agreeing the AI "Assistant" is a tool operated by users, not Perplexity itself.
EFF urged FTC to drop AI "accuracy suppression" policy proposal
EFF joined Public Knowledge and Fight for the Future in comments arguing the FTC's proposed AI policy is unconstitutional and exceeds the agency's legal authority.
Optimism proposes Strategic Ecosystem Fund from unused airdrop tokens
The Foundation proposal would repurpose 546.9M unused OP (~$48M) from the User Airdrop allocation to fund OP Mainnet and OP Enterprise growth.
Optimism launches OP Enterprise for institutional OP Stack deployments
OP Enterprise provides customizable, managed chain infrastructure for organizations building on the OP Stack, backed by Optimism's technical expertise.
Optimism CBO met with 30+ Korean financial institutions during Seoul visit
Kyle Jenke confirmed MOUs with Dunamu (GIWA blockchain), Toss (won-backed stablecoin PoC), and DB Securities (RWA tokenisation), and announced plans to open a Korean branch and double local headcount.
Unstoppable Domains bought the unstoppable.ai domain name for $100,000
The purchase, disclosed in a roundup of recent .ai domain sales, adds a premium AI-branded domain to the crypto identity company's holdings.
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B on-device agentic model
The 2.6B-parameter model runs locally on phones and laptops, handling tool use and multi-step tasks without cloud APIs.
Liquid AI and MacPaw partner on on-device AI stack for Mac
The pair are combining Liquid's foundation models with MacPaw's Elix inference and Mnemos memory layers, starting with the Eney assistant.
Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M open-weight bidirectional…
Two new general-purpose encoders built on the LFM2 hybrid architecture, supporting 8,192-token context with strong CPU performance for classification, routing, and filtering tasks.
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Protocol Labs’ vision for the future is built on four core focus areas that aim to harness humanity’s potential for good, navigate potential pitfalls, and ensure a future where technology empowers humanity.
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Building a foundation of freedom and safety in the digital age
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