Derivio announced on March 17 that it had completed a $6 million financing round, with investments from multiple institutions. The platform will focus on building infrastructure around "agent-based trading," utilizing AI agents to enable automated strategy execution and trading decisions.

The World project has launched the AgentKit developer toolkit for CEX's intelligent agent payment protocol x402, enabling AI agents authorized by users verified through World to prove their real identities while safeguarding privacy. This initiative integrates payment and identity mechanisms to establish a comprehensive trust system.

AI operations platform Deeptrace announced on March 17 that it completed a $5 million seed round of financing, incubated by Y Combinator. Its core product, AI SRE Agent, can quickly identify the root cause of failures and automatically generate repair solutions. Existing customers include Opendoor and Mintlify.

Gate News, on March 17th, payment infrastructure Pieverse launched an AI Agent Skill Shop. The shop allows users to select desired Skills, and developers can monetize their works through it. The first batch of Skills launched covers multiple platforms including PancakeSwap, Aster, and Four.Meme. Additionally, Pieverse's full-stack infrastructure layer Purr-Fect

Mistral AI released the open-source code agent Leanstral, designed specifically for Lean 4 formal verification, capable of generating code and proofs that can be automatically validated. The model employs a sparse MoE architecture, outperforming other leading models, and offers free downloads and API calls.

Nvidia unveiled Vera CPU at GTC conference, its first processor designed for Agent AI and reinforcement learning, featuring 88 proprietary cores with multi-task parallel processing support. Its high-bandwidth memory reduces power consumption, and multiple cloud service providers and hardware manufacturers have already planned integration. It is expected to enhance AI programming and streaming data processing performance, with shipments anticipated in the second half of the year.

NVIDIA released the Agent Toolkit open platform at the GTC conference, with its core being the open-source secure runtime OpenShell, aimed at providing security protection for AI Agents. Huang Renxun pointed out that AI will expand from generative reasoning to action, and the enterprise software industry will evolve toward specialized Agent platforms. The platform collaborates with multiple security tools, and 17 software vendors have already integrated with it.

NVIDIA CEO Huang Renxun announced the launch of the NemoClaw tool at the GTC event, which is deeply optimized specifically for the open-source AI agent platform OpenClaw, allowing users to install it with one click. NemoClaw combines the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit to ensure data privacy and security.

PancakeSwap launched an interactive AI-agent world called "Pancake Town" on March 16, where users can interact with it directly in their browser. The tool includes three AI skills that support querying liquidity pools, token swaps, and discovering staking yields, while generating deep links to facilitate users' trading and mining operations.

OpenClaw founder Peter SteinBerger stated on the X platform that the team is strengthening the plugin system while maintaining a streamlined core system. A new version will be released next Sunday, supporting users to ask questions while the AI Agent is performing tasks. Additionally, the developed automatic filtering system runs every five minutes to clear spam and enhance the interaction experience.