Odaily News: Cardano developers can build applications and AI agents that support payments in ADA and Cardano network tokens based on this suite, enabling AI agents to complete on-chain payments for services such as online data and computing resources. Cardano Foundation engineers have completed the relevant specifications and developed the client, server, and Facilitator responsible for verifying and submitting transactions; the first version supports TypeScript, with a Python version planned for release later.Currently, the Facilitator has only completed actual transaction testing on the Cardano pre-production network and is not yet running on the mainnet.

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Odaily News: Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson stated that over the next 5 to 10 years, cryptocurrency will deeply integrate with AI, and blockchain can solve AI's challenges in payments, alignment, and data provenance. OpenAI and Anthropic must achieve profitability at scale; individual models may be profitable, but pretraining costs are the main obstacle. Current data center construction is difficult to sustain, computing power spending cannot grow 10x every year, and global electricity supply cannot support it either. Hoskinson predicts that idle data centers will emerge in the future, and AI computing power will subsequently shift to local and edge models, integrating GPUs, phones, and other devices through distributed computing networks, with crypto technology handling coordination and settlement functions. By 2030, public chain assets could reach $10 trillion, with 1 billion new users.

Odaily reports: Cardano development organization Input Output Group (IOG) stated that its YouTube channel on Friday livestreamed a video suspected of being AI-tampered, in which Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson promoted a cryptocurrency giveaway event.The livestream directed viewers to scan a QR code and promised to "double their wealth." IOG reminded users to avoid interacting with the YouTube channel until further notice, and not to click links, send funds, or share personal information. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily News, August 21 — According to SoSoValue data, the crypto market sectors have risen for two consecutive days, with 24-hour gains generally ranging from approximately 3% to 11%. Among them, the PayFi sector led with an 11.46% increase. Within the sector, XRP rose 16.16%, and Telcoin (TEL) gained 13.49%. Meanwhile, Bitcoin (BTC) climbed 8.26%, breaking through $75,000, and Ethereum (ETH) rose 4.67%, surpassing $2,300.Additionally, MAG7.ssi rose 7.58%, DEFI.ssi gained 7.01%, and MEME.ssi increased 9.01%.In other sectors, the Meme sector rose 7.48% over 24 hours, with Pump.fun (PUMP) up 21.13%; the Layer2 sector gained 5.95%, with Stacks (STX) up 14.29%; the CeFi sector rose 5.26%, with NEXO up 10.39%; the DeFi sector gained 5.19%, with Ethena (ENA) up 27.81%; and the Layer1 sector rose 4.69%, with Cardano (ADA) up 10.54%.The crypto sector indices reflecting historical sector performance show that the ssiPayFi, ssiMeme, and ssiMAG7 indices rose 14.39%, 9.48%, and 7.23%, respectively.

Odaily News: Cardano governance company Intersect has updated its roadmap, dividing the Dijkstra upgrade into two phases. The first phase is planned to launch in Q4 2026, featuring the Linear Leios scaling solution, nested transactions, a new serialization structure, and Plutus V4 changes. The second phase will activate the Ouroboros Peras consensus protocol through a separate hard fork, targeting Q2 2027. Linear Leios will introduce an endorsement block mechanism, where a stake committee certifies additional transactions to boost throughput while preserving the existing Praos security model. Additionally, Cardano plans to submit an amendment before September 11 to add parameters related to Dijkstra.

Odaily News: Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson announced on the X platform the launch of an open-source project called "anthropies," stating that he has developed a set of tools compatible with most LLMs to handle watermarks and related markers in Anthropic/Claude outputs. According to the project's README, the tools distinguish among three types of information: statistical watermarks in text, C2PA content credentials in images, and Co-Authored-By: Claude attributions in Git commits. However, the project also notes that it cannot guarantee complete circumvention of Anthropic's undisclosed detection mechanisms.

Odaily Planet Daily News: Cardano ecosystem wallet project SecondFi has announced the launch of a wallet migration tool and revealed a recovery plan for assets affected by the June 2026 security incident. As the project will cease operations, users are required to migrate remaining assets still held in SecondFi wallets. The migration tool is expected to go live on August 13, supporting the transfer of eligible ADA, Cardano native tokens, and NFTs to new Cardano wallets created with service providers of the users' choosing. Currently, the tool only supports Cardano network assets; non-Cardano assets must be transferred separately through corresponding network and wallet processes. SecondFi stated that the migration tool has passed an independent security assessment by security firm Bitdefender. For affected assets, SecondFi plans to launch a recovery portal before September 10, where users can verify wallet ownership via zero-knowledge proofs (ZK Proof) and submit asset claims. SecondFi reminds users to only rely on information published through official channels, including @secondfiapp, @secondfi_jp, and the official support website, to guard against phishing sites and impersonating accounts.

Odaily News, August 13 – According to SoSoValue data, the cryptocurrency market experienced a slight overall decline, with the NFT sector dropping 5.19%. Within this sector, Audiera (BEAT) has continued to trend downward recently, falling another 13.31% over the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, the Meme sector declined by 3.69%, with Pepe (PEPE) and OFFICIAL TRUMP (TRUMP) dropping 5.61% and 6.58%, respectively.Looking at other sectors, the Layer 2 sector slipped 0.07%, but Mantle (MNT) rose 5.51%; the CeFi sector declined 0.52%, while OKB (OKB) remained relatively resilient with a 5.67% gain; the Layer 1 sector fell 0.62%, with Cardano (ADA) down 2.89%; and the PayFi sector dropped 1.10%, while Monero (XMR) bucked the trend with a 3.78% increase.In the past 24 hours, the SocialFi sector rose 0.66%, with Gram (GRAM) gaining 0.67%; the DeFi sector increased 0.28%, with Hyperliquid (HYPE) climbing 3.31%.The crypto sector index, which reflects historical sector performance, shows that the ssiSocialFi and ssiDeFi indices rose 0.64% and 0.19%, respectively, while the ssiGameFi index fell 3.47%.

Odaily News, August 11: According to SoSoValue data, the cryptocurrency market sectors have broadly pulled back. The NFT sector fell 25.62% in 24 hours, with Audiera (BEAT) plunging 55.02%. Bitcoin (BTC) dropped 1.85%, falling below $65,000, and Ethereum (ETH) fell 2.44%, dipping below $1,900.Only the DeFi and Layer 2 sectors remained relatively firm, rising 1.11% and 2.01%, respectively. Within DeFi, Hyperliquid (HYPE) gained 1.76% and Ethena (ENA) rose 3.56%. Within Layer 2, Arbitrum (ARB) was up 3.44% and Mantle (MNT) increased 5.48%.In other sectors, Layer 1 fell 0.54%, with Cardano (ADA) down 3.19%; CeFi fell 0.63%, although Bitget Token (BGB) rose 1.65%; PayFi declined 1.53%, with Telcoin (TEL) dropping 6.77%; and the Meme sector decreased 1.98%, while Pump.fun (PUMP) bucked the trend with a 4.74% gain.According to the crypto sector indices tracking historical performance, the ssiLayer2, ssiDeFi, and ssiGameFi indices rose 2.43%, 1.22%, and 0.07%, respectively.