BNB Chain's H2 2026 roadmap says BSC reached 450 ms blocks and 5,200 TPS benchmarks, with a next-generation L1 aimed at a 1M TPS end-state.
Ripple's XRPL AI Starter Kit adds x402 payments with XRP and RLUSD, testing whether agentic payments can move beyond USDC and Base.
Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines brings stablecoins into AI agent payments, with Coinbase, Stripe, Polygon, Solana, Ripple and OKX among early supporters.
AI agents and broader automation now account for roughly 19% of on-chain activity, but the live integrations show crypto's machine-money thesis is still mostly stablecoin-first.
World's new Agent Kit extends Coinbase's x402 flow so websites can check whether AI agents are backed by real humans, reviving privacy concerns around iris-linked onboarding.