AI Agents & Web3 Agent Ecosystem

Solayer’s founder exposes a security vulnerability in large language model (LLM) routers; in 428 routers, more than 20% exhibit malicious behavior, such as private keys being stolen. The research recommends that developers implement a separate end-to-end integrity verification mechanism on the client side and provides three defense options to mitigate supply-chain attacks.

Anthropic has launched Claude Managed Agents, providing a fully managed AI agent development platform that streamlines enterprise automation workflows and claims it can accelerate product production by 10x. The platform includes a security-focused infrastructure, supports long-running execution and multi-agent coordination, and enables developers to focus more on core business activities. Notion has already been an early adopter of this service, improving work efficiency and signaling that competition in the enterprise AI market is intensifying.

Coinbase's developer platform upgrades the x402 protocol, launching the “Upto” plan and enabling a variable pricing mechanism that replaces the previous fixed-fee model to support large language model (LLM) inference and related computing services. This plan is intended to address the issue where users can’t predict costs because they pay fixed fees, with the final amount paid not exceeding the user-set cap. The x402 protocol has been taken over by the Linux Foundation, but transaction volume has continued to decline after the 2025 peak, and it remains to be seen whether the Upto upgrade can boost network activity.

Andrej Karpathy said that the public’s understanding of AI capabilities has developed a split, divided into two groups: ordinary users using the free version of ChatGPT and professional technical people using advanced models on a paid basis. He believes that the two are discussing entirely different products and emphasizes that progress in the technical field is significant because of verifiable reward functions and incentives driven by commercial value.

Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents, providing a fully managed AI agent development platform that simplifies enterprise automation workflows and claims it can accelerate product production by 10x. The platform features a secure infrastructure, supports long-duration execution and multi-agent coordination, and helps developers focus more on core business. Notion was among the first to adopt this service, improving work efficiency and showing that competition in the enterprise AI market is intensifying.

Anthropic officially launches pricing for AI Agents: $0.08 per hour. Notion, Rakuten, and Asana have become the first enterprise adopters. These cloud-hosted services can effectively shorten development cycles, reducing them from months to days, and lower engineers’ time costs by eliminating the need to build infrastructure in-house. This pricing structure is the first to be made transparent in the market, drawing attention.

OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent platform, released an update on April 9, 2026, introducing a brand-new “Dreamscape” memory system to strengthen long-term memory capabilities, allowing it to review users’ historical records. In addition, it patched five security vulnerabilities to address recent cybersecurity incidents. This update also includes other feature improvements, continuing to enhance the user experience.

Solana Foundation has introduced Solana Agent Skills, a toolkit for integrating prebuilt on-chain capabilities into AI tools, enabling faster development of AI agents that can execute blockchain actions efficiently. This simplifies the process for developers and positions Solana favorably in the evolving intersection of crypto and AI.

Bitcoin Wallet Nunchuk released an open-source tool on April 9 that supports interactions with AI agents. It includes the Nunchuk CLI command-line tool and the Agent Skills code repository, providing a variety of wallet management features.

Vanar, an Artificial Intelligence (AI-native) blockchain infrastructure platform focused on building systems and intelligent applications to operate securely and transparently, is pleased to launch xBPP, a new open protocol built to govern autonomous AI agent behavior before transactions reach

Tether’s QVAC team launched the QVAC SDK, which is an open-source, cross-platform AI development toolkit aimed at building the intelligent ecosystem of the future and supporting a wide range of devices. QVAC is seen as a next-generation intelligent framework with modular and infinitely extensible features to adapt to future development.

Gate News update, April 9, Xverse, a Bitcoin wallet, announced the launch of its Bitcoin-native AI agent wallet, the Xverse Agentic Wallet. The wallet enables AI agents to execute payment, trading, and fund management operations on the Bitcoin network. Lightning payments are settled via Spark, and it also supports machine-to-machine payments through MPP (multi-path payments)