Crypto Payments
Coinbase Commerce review: Crypto Payment Gateway Status After 2026 Shutdown
Coinbase Commerce closed on March 31, 2026, and merchants must now migrate to Coinbase Business or third-party gateways for crypto payments.
Crypto Payments
Coinbase Commerce closed on March 31, 2026, and merchants must now migrate to Coinbase Business or third-party gateways for crypto payments.
Fintech
Ramp submitted an application on October 16, 2026, to the OCC for a national trust bank focused on fiduciary services and digital asset custody without taking deposits.
Blockchain
Tempo is a payments-first Layer 1 incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, designed for stablecoin settlement with sub-second finality and stablecoin-denominated fees.
AI Agents
The AIOZ Storage MCP Server launched on October 12, 2026, providing 22 tools that let MCP-compatible AI agents manage S3 object storage and vector databases through natural language prompts.
Cryptocurrency Exchange
BLONEX launched in October 2026 as a centralized crypto exchange with AI tools that support user-defined strategies through alerts and risk controls rather than automated execution.
Crypto Exchange
MEXC lists hundreds of new tokens through its Innovation Zone each quarter, with specific maker and taker fees that differ from standard pairs and carry volatility alerts.
AI Observability
Laminar Flow-1 powers automated failure detection in long-running AI agent traces through structured investigation and evidence citation.
API
MiniMax released the M3.1 Flash model on October 19, 2026. It offers a 1-million-token context window and agent-focused features at $0.15 per million input tokens.
AI Inference
Mangoboost Mango Inference launched October 12, 2026, as a serverless LLM platform with OpenAI-compatible APIs, per-token pricing, and AMD GPU infrastructure.
AI Infrastructure
Architect Liquid Inference operates as a real-time auction platform for LLM inference requests, routing prompts to the lowest qualifying bid among verified providers.
Fiserv
Fiserv launched its Digital Asset Platform on October 1, 2026, to let banks issue and settle stablecoins through existing systems.
KuCoin
KuCoin enabled native USDC transfers on Arc Mainnet in September 2026, providing direct on and off ramps for the EVM-compatible chain launched by Circle.