Coinbase Taps into Agentic Finance with New AI-Powered Trading Platform

Coinbase has launched Coinbase for Agents, a new platform that lets artificial intelligence agents connect to user accounts and carry out crypto-related tasks. The product allows AI assistants like ChatGPT-style and Claude-style agents to trade crypto, access market data, send payments, and manage basic account workflows under user control.

The launch places Coinbase deeper into agentic finance, where AI tools can act on financial instructions without constant manual input. Users can give AI agents access to trading and payment tools through natural language commands, allowing them to rebalance portfolios, monitor positions, identify market setups, or execute a trading plan within approved limits.

Coinbase is also connecting the product to x402, its machine-to-machine payments protocol, which allows AI agents to pay for digital services like research, data APIs, and on-demand computing. This means an agent could gather paid market data, process that information, and then act on a user-approved trading instruction.

Coinbase's AI product lead, Lincoln Murr, said, 'The whole idea is to give agents access to money and, through that financial independence, improve their set of capabilities to pretty much anything on the internet.'