The Protocol: AI Agents form their own firm

Also: Alpenglow upgrade update, Ripple on North Korea hacking threat, Cloudflare on AI agents and web economics What to know : Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at CoinDesk. In this issue: AI agent forms its own company, gets ready to trade crypto Solana’s 'Alpenglow' upgrade could arrive next quarter, co-founder Yakovenko says Ripple to share North Korean threat intelligence with crypto firms AI agents are breaking web economics, but Cloudflare says x402 can help