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imToken August Brief | From AI Agents to Staking, Why User Control Matters More Than Ever

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August 2026 brought new developments in AI agents, tokenized assets, stablecoin regulation, and Ethereum protocol upgrades.

More and more actions are moving closer to the wallet: some come from automated tools, some from new forms of assets, and others from changes in the rules of underlying networks.

For users, keeping up with every new concept is not the most important task.

What matters more is seeing who you are authorizing before you sign, confirming the network and address before you transfer, and understanding the rights and limits behind tokenized assets before you interact with them.

This month, imToken continued to organize featured content around these questions and improved product entry points related to custom networks and hardware wallets, helping users gain a clearer understanding before making their own decisions in an increasingly complex on-chain environment.

📚 Featured Reads | Understanding Agents, Assets, and Transaction Boundaries

AI Agents Come of Age: What Still Stands Between Simulation and Real Trading?

For AI agents to take part in real on-chain transactions, model capability is only one part of the equation. Funding sources, permission scope, exception handling, and accountability all need to be made explicit through wallet and security mechanisms.

Web3 Wallets in a Turbulent Season: Understanding Crypto Security’s Sword and Shield in the AI Era

AI is making both attacks and defenses more automated. In the face of phishing, social engineering, and attacks at scale, users still need to treat signature review, permission management, and official-channel verification as daily habits.

When AI Agents Start Having Wallets: After Economic Autonomy, Who Keeps Control?

When agents can hold addresses, initiate transactions, and participate in economic activity, wallet control becomes more granular. Understanding authorization, asset boundaries, and revocation behind agent wallets helps users judge whether an automated experience is genuinely safe and controllable.

When 34% of ETH Is Staked: How Should Users Choose in the Era of Native Compounding?

As ETH staking participation continues to rise, users have more options than ever. Beyond yield, it is important to compare asset ownership, liquidity, exit mechanisms, and self-custody boundaries across different paths.

Writing Censorship Resistance Into the Protocol: Who Decides Whether an Ethereum Transaction Gets Included?

After a user confirms a transaction, it still goes through ordering, packaging, and block construction. Understanding censorship resistance and protocol governance helps users see which infrastructure variables beyond the wallet can affect transaction inclusion.

🔥 Industry Highlights

Ethereum Foundation opens an early public testnet for Glamsterdam

The Platåberget testnet is now open for early testing of Glamsterdam-related changes. This stage mainly serves developers and infrastructure teams, and thorough testing will help lay the groundwork for future mainnet upgrades and user-experience stability.

Glamsterdam Repricing enters testing to align gas pricing more closely with real costs

The Ethereum Foundation has started testing gas repricing adjustments in the Glamsterdam upgrade, with a focus on re-evaluating the cost of creating and accessing on-chain state. Developers of wallets, DApps, and infrastructure need to check gas estimation, fixed gas parameters, and related contract compatibility in advance.

U.S. Treasury seeks public comment on GENIUS Act stablecoin rules

The U.S. Treasury is seeking public input on stablecoin rules under the GENIUS Act. The framework is still taking shape, but reserve disclosures, issuer responsibilities, and compliance expectations will continue to affect what users need to verify when using stablecoin products.

BlackRock launches tokenized money market funds for stablecoin reserves

Traditional financial institutions are connecting on-chain funds, cash management, and stablecoin reserves. When users encounter these assets, they still need to understand the underlying assets, issuer, redemption arrangements, and applicable restrictions.

AI agents may amplify the scale of crypto attacks

Industry discussions suggest that AI agents could increase attack automation and expand the impact of attacks at scale. The more automated the environment becomes, the more important it is for users to identify authorization targets, limit permission scope, and revoke permissions that are no longer needed.

🚀 Product Updates

imToken 2.22.0: New imKey Official Channel Entry Makes Support Easier to Reach

imToken 2.22.0 adds an official channel entry on the imKey management page. If you use imKey, you can now access imKey’s official channels more quickly from this entry to view product updates and announcements, or get related help and support.

This version also improves risk warnings when using custom RPC endpoints. RPC is an important service that connects a wallet to blockchain networks and retrieves network data. If an RPC source is unknown or maliciously tampered with, it may display false information and guide users into high-risk actions.

Now, when you add an RPC address, add a custom network, or modify an existing RPC address, the page will show a risk explanation. Please read the prompt and make sure you understand the risks before continuing.

🤝 Partner Highlights

Tokenlon 7th Anniversary Data Review: From Secure Operation to Execution Quality

In August, Tokenlon released its seventh-anniversary data review. As of July 31, 2026, the Tokenlon protocol had operated securely for 2,557 days, with cumulative trading volume of approximately $39.59B, 1,178,647 completed transactions, and 232,185 addresses served.

For DEX users, the experience beyond trading volume is more directly shaped by whether transactions execute reliably, whether the executed price meets expectations, and whether gas and MEV costs can be effectively controlled in complex on-chain environments.

The seventh-anniversary data shows that Tokenlon’s average matching time was 0.27 seconds and its order execution success rate reached 99.16%. Gasless has saved users approximately $18.51M in gas fees, and Tokenlon has completed 671,032 transactions protected against sandwich attacks.

On the protocol ecosystem side, Tokenlon fees have been used to buy back 30,047,072 LON in total, and the total amount of LON staked has reached 85,884,104 tokens.

View the full data here: Tokenlon 7th Anniversary Data Review.

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