AI x Base - March 2026 Recap
AGENT STANDARDS
@virtuals_io co-developed ERC-8183 with
@ethereumfndn. Introduces an onchain job primitive with escrow, evaluator attestation, and modular hooks for trustless A2A commerce.
@daydreamsagents proposed ERC-8194 (Payment Gated Transaction Relay) and ERC-8195 (Task Market Protocol). Both now in Draft in the official ethereum/ERCs repo.
@0xmaiat launched Maiat, the evaluator layer for ERC-8183. Onchain trust scores from behavioral data, deployed on Base with 7 SDK packages and EAS attestations.
x402
@CoinbaseDev expanded x402 to support any ERC-20 via Uniswap Permit2 and Gas Sponsorship Extensions. Nearly 100M real transactions. 78K in a single day, avg tx size down from $2.50 to $0.06.
@worldnetwork launched AgentKit. Human-verified agents built on World ID, powered by x402.
@world_chain_ hosted the agent payment proof-of-human hackathon with
@CoinbaseDev.
@nansen_ai and
@Quicknode added x402 data endpoints. Quicknode open-sourced its x402 npm package.
@merit_systems built
@agentcashdev. Single USDC balance for agents to access 280 paid APIs via x402.
@agentmail enabled AI agents to create email inboxes paid via x402.
INFRA & TOOLS
@bankrbot
- Hit $2.48B total volume. $11.23M returned to agents and builders.
- 7.85B tokens processed in 7 days. 206K requests through the LLM Gateway.
- Launched x402 Cloud. Deploy paid API endpoints in seconds. Agents discover and settle in USDC. Free up to 1K requests, 5% after.
- Added Hyperliquid trading through CLI and trusted wallet address whitelisting.
@BlockRunAI
- Hit 2M API calls. ClawRouter at 1.1M /month, won the Circle USDC Hackathon.
- Launched SocialClaw. X analytics callable by agents at $0.08/report.
- Partnered with
@mpcvault on Agent Card. Policy-controlled USDC spending anywhere Visa is accepted.
@gizatechxyz
- Opened Giza SDK and MCP connector for Claude, ChatGPT, and OpenClaw.
- Processed $46.8M during the USR depeg. 4,647 transactions, all capital safely exited.
@SecantXAI added institutional Nasdaq market data to its AI trading engine. Equities to private market pricing.
@rosetta_hl launched Explorer v2. 200 Morpho lending markets across 9 chains in one view. $270M in stablecoin capital routed.
@freysa_ai launched
ml.ink for agent compute provisioning and
lume.top in open beta for trading agents with gasless onboarding and live market access.
VIRTUALS
A2A revenue surpassed $4M . aGDP opened to non-tokenized agents for the first time. Console launched for no-code agent creation. Virtuals sponsored AgentCon at NTU Singapore.
AGENT TRADING & MARKETS
@DXRGai concluded DX Terminal Pro. 6.2M agent decisions across 3K agents. $15M in volume and 171K transactions in the first 4 days alone.
@useOttoAI brought US stock trading with 10x leverage through ACP with
@tradexyz and
@Butler_Agent.
@Capminal finished aGDP Epoch 2 in 2nd place. $63K revenue, $27.5K in rewards.
ECOSYSTEM
@instaclaws launched autonomous agents in 60 seconds. Wallet, 20 skills, and persistent memory out of the box.
@reppo reached 90K users, 316M votes, 75% re-locking rate.
@ArAIstotle reported 382K queries, 8K users, $760K tax revenue, and 413x MoM ACP growth.
@ethy_agent appeared in Hana Securities' institutional report on the emerging agent economy.
ROBOTICS
@axisrobotics launched on Base with browser-based robot teleoperation and physical AI training data generation.
@shadowcleague joined Base Batches 003 robotics track led by
@virtuals_io.
See you next month.