According to @Nick_van_Eck, AUSD (Agora) appointed @kate_onchain as Head of Engineering to lead onchain infrastructure and API initiatives, with the company stating it will lean heavily into these areas in the upcoming year; source: @Nick_van_Eck on X (Dec 2, 2025). According to @Nick_van_Eck, Kate spent the last five years at Coinbase overseeing the Coinbase Developer Platform portal, developer services, and APIs; source: @Nick_van_Eck on X. According to @Nick_van_Eck, over the past two years she built and led Base’s developer tools including the Base builder hub, Base Node, Paymaster/Bundler, Appchains, and OnchainKit; source: @Nick_van_Eck on X. According to @Nick_van_Eck, Base is described as one of the most active onchain ecosystems with 25K+ builders and 15M+ transactions per day; source: @Nick_van_Eck on X. According to @Nick_van_Eck, Agora reaffirmed its mission to transform money movement and said stablecoins will underpin a faster, more global financial fabric, while noting it is hiring; source: @Nick_van_Eck on X.

According to @PANewsCN, Coinbase launched Payments MCP to let large language models such as Claude and Gemini invoke crypto wallets, access fiat on-ramps, and execute stablecoin payments through natural language, with support for local deployment and customization; this directly targets on-chain payment use cases relevant to traders focused on stablecoin settlement flows and agentic commerce, source: @PANewsCN on X. The tool is built by the Coinbase Developer Platform and aligns with the x402 Foundation initiative, which is supported by Coinbase and Cloudflare to standardize AI payments, source: @PANewsCN on X. Coinbase’s official positioning describes stablecoins as ideal infrastructure for agentic commerce, and Payments MCP aims to natively connect mainstream LLMs with the crypto economy and payment protocols such as x402, source: @PANewsCN on X.