AI Agents & Web3 Agent Ecosystem

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)