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Agentic AI is making inroads on crypto payments—with researchers and firms scrambling to put safeguards in place to protect users' funds.

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Stephen Graves
April 09, 2026

đź“ť What you need to know

AI agents are coming for your crypto, as developers release new tools and standards designed to enable the autonomous bots to trade while mitigating against the risks to users’ funds.

Researchers from Microsoft and Google DeepMind have proposed an “Agentic Risk Standard,” a settlement-layer risk management framework that adds financial safeguards to AI jobs, including an “underwriter” for tasks that require releasing money upfront.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin wallet firm Nunchuk has released open-source tools enabling AI agents to interact with Bitcoin wallets while withholding full control over funds. The idea is to give agents “bounded authority,” requiring user approval for transactions over a set spending limit.

With a recent Google paper warning of AI agents creating autonomous “sandbox economies,” it’s clear there’s an urgent need for such safeguards.

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