MSTR rose 7.69%, BMNR surged over 8% as gains in U.S. crypto-related stocks broaden.

Mastercard announced the early access launch of its AI agent payment system, Agent Pay for Machines, and demonstrated live transactions at the Cloudflare Connect conference. The system allows AI agents to autonomously discover services, negotiate transaction terms, and complete payments, all bounded by pre-set human-defined budget caps. Built on the open x402 protocol, when an AI agent accesses a paid service and receives a "402 Payment Required" response, it generates a digitally signed payment token, which is validated by the service provider to grant service access. These tokens can be settled in batches, enabling AI agents to complete multiple transactions rapidly. For the demonstration, a marketing agent planned an ad campaign for a protein bar product, processing 9 payments to two separate merchants under a single budget—no individual account registrations or separate invoice management were required. Coinbase provides wallet services, Base handles on-chain settlement, and BVNK supports fiat or stablecoin payments and settlements via Mastercard’s Global Money Platform. Mastercard will also offer developers buyer and seller APIs, SDKs, and test environments, and has rolled out end-to-end pilots with partners including Cloudflare, AWS, and Coinbase.

Ethereum's staked ETH has risen to a record high of 43.8 million ETH, accounting for 35.9% of the total ETH supply. Meanwhile, both the staking yield rate and the number of validators have declined.

Glassnode noted in a publication that Bitcoin’s key fourth-quarter price level is currently holding steady. The firm previously pointed out in the "Charting Crypto" report, co-authored with Colin Basco and the Coinbase Institutional team, that BTC faces resistance in the $87,000 to $87,800 range. Since then, Bitcoin’s price has been blocked at this level and has continued to consolidate below it. Glassnode believes that if Bitcoin breaks out of its current consolidation range, significant market volatility may occur, but a major sell-off pressure zone remains around the $90,000 mark.

According to Coinglass data, global crypto liquidations totaled $155 million over the past four hours, including $15.11 million in long-position liquidations and $140 million in short-position liquidations. Over the past 24 hours, 64,522 traders were liquidated, bringing the total liquidation volume to $267 million. The largest single liquidation order occurred on Binance’s BTCUSDT pair, valued at $11.96 million.

According to Lookonchain's monitoring, a new wallet address (0xb15b) has been liquidated five more times in the past hour. The wallet has accumulated losses of $1.11 million in just two days.

According to Bloomberg, citing a diplomat involved in the Iran-US negotiations, talks between Iran and the United States are still ongoing, and reports that the two sides are on the verge of reaching an agreement are untrue.