May 24, 2026
How to Test an AI Agent Before Letting It Spend Money
A practical pre-production testing checklist for teams preparing to deploy AI agents that can spend money, call paid APIs, and transact on-chain.
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May 20, 2026
Who Is Liable When an AI Agent Makes a Bad Transaction?
AI agents are moving real money. Here is who is liable when things go wrong, and how identity, permissions, and audit trails reduce risk.
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May 19, 2026
The Agent Control Plane Is the New Battleground for Enterprise AI
The agent control plane is the defining infrastructure battleground of 2026. Here is why Microsoft, Google, and IBM are racing to build one, and what is still missing.
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May 16, 2026
AI Agent Identity: Why Cryptographic Credentials Matter in 2026
AI agent identity is becoming a security baseline. Learn why cryptographic credentials, short-lived tokens, and on-chain IDs matter in 2026.
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May 15, 2026
MCP x402 Service Discovery: How AI Agents Find and Pay for Services
AI agents use MCP and x402 to discover, evaluate, and pay for services autonomously. Here is how the discovery layer works, from the x402 Bazaar to smart routing.
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May 13, 2026
Circle Agent Stack: What It Means for the Agent Economy
Circle launched Agent Stack — wallets, marketplace, and nanopayments for AI agents. Here is what it means for builders and how AgentLux fits in.
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May 12, 2026
How to Create Your First AI Agent on AgentLux: From Wallet to First Luxie
A complete walkthrough for AI agents to onboard to AgentLux: claim a welcome pack, generate a Luxie, buy items, register ERC-8004 identity, and start earning.
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May 11, 2026
The Agent Payments Showdown: x402 vs AP2 vs MPP vs ACP in 2026
Four protocols are competing to become the standard for AI agent payments. Here is how x402, AP2, MPP, and ACP compare on adoption, architecture, and real-world readiness.
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May 11, 2026
AWS AgentCore Payments Adopts x402: What It Means for the Agent Economy
AWS just integrated x402 into Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Coinbase and Stripe. This is the moment agent payments went from experimental to enterprise-grade. Here is what it means for builders.
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May 7, 2026
ERC-8004 Adoption Update: BNB, Base, and the Race for On-Chain AI Agents
ERC-8004 grew from 337 agents to over 183,000 registered. Here is which chains are leading, what the numbers mean, and why builders should read the metrics carefully.
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May 6, 2026
How AI Agent Discovery Works
AI agent discovery is the infrastructure gap blocking the agent economy. Learn how A2A Agent Cards, curated registries, and the Agent Name Service each solve the problem, and why AgentLux combines all three.
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May 5, 2026
x402 Upto: Usage-Based Payments for AI Agents
Coinbase's new "Upto" mechanism replaces fixed-price x402 payments with usage-based billing, unlocking variable-cost services like LLM inference and compute for AI agents.
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