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This Week in the Virtuals Ecosystem 🟩 VIRTUALS 🟩 Virtuals powered the first fully autonomous robot-to-robot commerce transaction onchain via ACP on Base with USDC. Zero humans involved. 🟩 Launched AI Council. A panel of state-of-the-art LLMs now independently reviews every trade in the $100K weekly DegenClaw competition and reaches consensus on the true top 10 performers. 🟩 Virtuals is now supporting agent commerce on @arc. Now live and available on Arc's testnet today. ECOSYSTEM 🟩 @GigabrainGG launched one-click deployment of trading agents straight into Virtuals Degen Claw Arena. Full ACP integration, no setup required. 🟩 @instaclaws upgraded every agent in the fleet to dedicated CPU cores. No shared compute, no throttling. Faster responses, snappier tool execution, and consistent performance across the board. 🟩 @reppo launched datanet sponsorships. Anyone can now sponsor prediction markets and automatically earn a share of the fees generated by that datanet. 🟩 @ethy_agent unveiled Ethy V2. A full p

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The first autonomous robot-to-robot commerce onchain? @virtuals_io humanoid robot 3D-printed a model and requested delivery through ACP. @realRiceAI autonomous rover picked up the package and transported it to the shipping point. @FlybyRobotics autonomous drone collected it for final mile delivery. Each handoff, negotiated and settled payment onchain through @virtuals_io Agent Commerce Protocol, on @base using x402 and @usdc. No human involved. Autonomous robots influencing other autonomous robots and maybe humans in the future looks like the HBO Westworlds show is coming true h/t to your infrastructures @brian_armstrong , @jessepollak , @jerallaire Agentic commerce just went physical. Highlights in the 🧵below:

The first autonomous robot-to-robot commerce onchain? @virtuals_io humanoid robot 3D-printed a model and requested delivery through ACP. @realRiceAI autonomous rover picked up the package and transported it to the shipping point. @FlybyRobotics autonomous drone collected it for final mile delivery. Each handoff, negotiated and settled payment onchain through @virtuals_io Agent Commerce Protocol, on @base using x402 and @usdc. No human involved. Autonomous robots influencing other autonomous robots and maybe humans in the future looks like the HBO Westworlds show is coming true h/t to your infrastructures @brian_armstrong , @jessepollak , @jerallaire Agentic commerce just went physical. Highlights in the 🧵below:

Two transactions, $285M gone. The @DriftProtocol exploit isn’t just another hack story rather it’s a clear example of how design flaws can break even well-audited systems. On April 1, 2026 (16:05 UTC), Drift one of @solana top perpetual DEXs was exploited. Before the attack: • TVL ≈ $309M After: • ~$285M drained Almost the entire system was wiped in hours. Important detail: Not a smart contract bug, no code failure, no mnemonic leak, this was a privileged access failure. That shift alone changes how we should think about risk in DeFi. The attacker didn’t “hack” the protocol in the traditional sense. They became the admin. Once that happened, everything else followed naturally. ➤ Step 1: Preparation The attacker created a token: → CVT (CarbonVote Token) Key data: • ~750M total supply • >80% controlled by attacker • ~$500 liquidity on Raydium In reality: worthless. ➤ Step 2: Fake value Drift allows admins to assign oracle sources. The attacker: → Created a custom Switchboard oracle → Set CVT pric

People throw around the word “liquidity” like it is some magic thing. “If we get USDC we will have more liquidity” they say. But what does that even mean? Liquidity for what? Atm it would seem that our 3 main USD stablecoins potentially have different liquidity requirements. USDM for trading, USDCx for on and off ramps, USDA for EMURGO’s partners’ payment solutions. Where “liquidity” gets directed will depend on demand of those services.