PANews reported on June 12th that, according to The Block, Coinbase has launched Coinbase for Agents, a platform specifically designed for creating accounts and sub-accounts for AI agents. These AI agents will be able to seamlessly handle trading, fund management, and payments, eliminating the need for users to manually top up separate wallets. Users can instruct agents to execute repetitive strategies such as weekly portfolio rebalancing via natural language commands. Lincoln Murr, Coinbase’s AI product lead, revealed that the service has built-in support for the x402 open AI payment standard, enabling machine-to-machine micropayments for accessing paid content, APIs, and data. Over 10,000 online merchants have already integrated x402. Coinbase for Agents will launch with spot trading access, equity trading within the next three weeks, and prediction markets in early July. Users can set up independent sandbox environments, trading limits, and withdrawal limits for their agents to manage risk.
