• Growing AI demand for live data, human verification and payments is creating commercial opportunities for blockchain infrastructure.
• Grass launched its Contents API for live data retrieval, expanding beyond training datasets into recurring demand during AI applications’ use.
• Cloudflare’s collaboration with World could let websites verify human authorization for AI agents while maintaining controls against unverified bots.
• Celestia’s Fibre benchmark reached 3.07 terabits per second, potentially supporting nearly two billion transactions per second, according to Celestia’s estimate.
• Higher blockchain capacity could enable micropayments for individual data requests, computing resources and services as AI agents increase online activity.

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