AI Trading Armies, Mastercard's Onchain Supercycle, & The Zcash Infinite Mint Glitch

This week on NiftyNoon:• Coinbase launches "Coinbase for Agents" — AI assistants can now autonomously execute trades, rebalance portfolios, and pay for services with USDC via the x402 protocol, marking a massive bet on agentic finance• Mastercard unveils Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) — a multi-rail settlement system integrating stablecoins on Polygon, Solana, and Base for autonomous machine-to-machine commerce• Anthropic's Claude Mythos-class AI hits the public — compressing exploit timelines for DeFi while equally arming protocol defenders with machine-speed auditing capabilities• The Clarity Act stalls — Galaxy drops Senate passage odds to 60%, JPMorgan under 50%, as 200+ crypto organizations push for a floor vote before August recess• Zcash crashes 48% after "infinite mint" vulnerability disclosed — a flaw hiding since May 2022 that could have allowed unlimited counterfeit ZEC, discovered by an AI modelTune in for your weekly dose of market data, AI-driven disruption, and the structural shifts reshaping crypto's security and regulatory landscape. Read the full articles at niftynoon.substack.com