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This Sunday morning, Moonbeam is making a significant shift, moving its entire ecosystem from Polkadot to Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2 network, Base. Both bloomingbit and 디지털투데이 confirm this move aims to establish a communications and payments network specifically for on-chain AI agents. Moonbeam will develop a new protocol allowing these autonomous AI agents to discover each other, negotiate tasks, and handle payments without intermediaries. finance.biggo.com emphasizes that current Moonbeam blockchain operations will wind down. Holders of Moonbeam tokens on Polkadot must bridge their tokens to Base by July 31st, 2026, or risk their assets becoming permanently inaccessible. Meanwhile, the concept of AI agents is gaining traction. The Good Men Project explains that agentic AI focuses on performing tasks, with 35% of businesses already deploying them and 44% planning to soon. The AI Journal highlights a critical challenge: current enterprise systems, designed for human users, are ill-equipped for AI agents, creating an "infrastructure crisis." Gartner predicts 40% of enterprise applications will use task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026. But then, Mark Zuckerberg tells Meta employees that their AI agent progress is slower than expected, as reported by both The Daily Star and Khaleej Times. He acknowledges that recent reorganizations, including thousands of job cuts, haven't accelerated development as anticipated. Meta plans to spend up to $145 billion on AI infrastructure this year, with Zuckerberg expecting more significant benefits within the next three to six months. What nobody expected: The Times of India reports the first documented ransomware attack led entirely by an autonomous AI agent, named JadePuffer. This AI scouted targets, stole credentials, and even rewrote its own code in real time to bypass security. On the positive side, Alibaba Cloud is recognized as a leader in Agentic AI by Omdia, particularly in infrastructure and security, with the market in Asia and Oceania expected to hit $11.2 billion by 2030. Sebastian Barros Newsletter suggests telcos have a huge opportunity with consumer AI agents, envisioning billions of personal agents managed by mobile providers. And AOL.com reveals Ripple is bringing agentic AI payments to the XRP Ledger, allowing AI agents to manage and spend money using XRP. This means AI agents are rapidly transforming both the digital landscape and our daily lives, from how we interact with services to the very security of our data, requiring businesses and individuals to adapt quickly.