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According to a report from Keyrock, over the past year, AI agents completed more than $73 million in payments via blockchain, involving 176 million transactions, although their share in the global payments market remains relatively small. An exchange, Stripe, Google, and Visa are building machine-to-machine payment infrastructure to enable software agents to independently purchase data, computing power, and digital services. Currently, almost all agent payments are settled in USDC, highlighting Circle's importance in crypto payments and the risk of relying on a single stablecoin issuer.

The launch of this tender also reflects Bangladesh's increasing efforts to explore and develop offshore oil and gas resources, and the progress of subsequent related tenders will also have a certain impact on the country's future energy supply structure.

According to Forbes, Mark Cuban criticized Bitcoin for "deviating from its original purpose." He noted that during the escalation of the Iran war and the weakening of the US dollar, gold surged, while Bitcoin fell, failing to demonstrate its role as an "inflation-resistant asset." He stated that whenever the dollar declines, Bitcoin should theoretically rise, but this has not happened. He also mentioned that compared to Bitcoin, he is less disappointed with Ethereum.