Coinbase lets businesses accept USDC payments from AI agents
Coinbase is expanding tools for AI-driven finance and payments. Coinbase Business users will be able to accept USDC payments from autonomous AI agents using the x402 payment standard, which was designed for stablecoin payments over HTTP for agents, apps, and APIs. Coinbase also introduced AI trading tools for monitoring orders, viewing live market data, and executing actions based on preset conditions, plus a developer SDK for building agent-powered applications. The products are aimed at the “agentic economy,” where AI agents can pay, manage finances, and perform tasks on users’ behalf. Coinbase says AI agent adoption is rising, citing agent traffic on Base documentation pages surpassing human traffic. The rollout reflects a broader industry push to make stablecoins and blockchain payments core infrastructure for AI agents.
