Enterprise AI agent firm HappyRobot closes $150 million Series C funding round, with a valuation of $1.2 billion.

Visa announced a partnership with on-chain infrastructure provider Zerohash to integrate stablecoin functionality into its Visa Direct platform. Eligible customers will be able to use stablecoins to pre-fund merchant accounts, as well as conduct fund transfers and payments via stablecoins. Visa Direct currently connects over 195 countries and regions worldwide, with more than 18 billion endpoints, covering bank cards, bank accounts, and digital wallets. The integration aims to boost capital deployment efficiency, settlement flexibility, and fund arrival speed in cross-border payments. Zerohash will provide underlying technology and compliance support. The company previously became the first enterprise to obtain a license under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework and hold e-money institution status.

The Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security initiative has announced a grant to the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) to support the continued development of its open-source tool WEBCAT. WEBCAT enables browsers to verify that code provided by registered websites matches the version released by developers. For Ethereum users, when accessing dApp websites, browsers load and execute the site’s code. If that code is tampered with, wallets could have their receiving addresses swapped or be tricked into signing unintended transactions—and a simple connection alone cannot confirm whether the page has been altered. The Trillion Dollar Security (TDS) initiative has identified front-end attacks as an infrastructure risk and has prioritized verifiable front-ends as its next focus area. Part of FPF’s motivation for building WEBCAT is that its SecureDrop anonymous whistleblowing system will require verifiable browser code in the future; the code integrity risk is identical to the browser front-end risks faced by Ethereum users. The grant will fund the development of a WEBCAT verification library that can be integrated into wallets, letting users gain protection without installing a separate extension. It will also support research into Chrome and Chromium browser compatibility, integration assistance for teams, an independent security audit, and the creation of an ERC standard—so wallet developers have a standardized framework to follow.

Google is in advanced talks with San Francisco-based AI programming agent startup Mechanize for a deal valued at over $1.5 billion. According to people familiar with the matter, the deal will involve Google bringing in some of Mechanize’s talent and licensing its technology on a non-exclusive basis. The talent Google plans to recruit will focus on model evaluation and development. The AI programming segment has become one of the most important and profitable areas in current AI applications, and such deals will directly accelerate Google’s own AI coding capabilities. Over the past two years, Google has structured multiple acquisitions as hybrid deals combining talent recruitment and technology licensing rather than full takeovers, partly to avoid antitrust scrutiny that could stem from direct full acquisitions. The negotiation model with Mechanize—hiring some employees and licensing technology instead of a full acquisition—marks a continuation of the creative approach large Silicon Valley tech firms are adopting to secure core technology and talent in the AI race.

Arthur Hayes(@CryptoHayes) bought another 2.69M $ENA($246K) 2 hours ago. Over the past 4 days, Arthur Hayes has bought 11.74M $ENA($1.02M) at an average price of $0.087.

Whale 0x2684 bought another 3,960 $ETH($7.4M) 3 hours ago. Since June 30, the whale has bought 79,216 $ETH($140.77M) at an average price of $1,777 and 1,400 $WBTC($89.44M) at an average price of $63,887.

Per Lookonchain’s monitoring, whale address 0x2684 purchased 3,960 ETH 3 hours ago, valued at $7.4 million. Since June 30, this whale has accumulated a total of 79,216 ETH (worth $140.77 million) at an average price of $1,777, plus 1,400 WBTC (worth $89.44 million) at an average price of $63,887.