[Coinbase has launched a new Agentic Wallets feature enabling AI agents to autonomously spend, earn, and trade digital assets.According to the company, this infrastructure, built on AgentKit, allows agents to manage DeFi positions, pay for compute, and execute trades.This technology aligns with a broader industry push where AI agents are predicted to become major crypto users for everyday transactions.]
Coinbase programmers revealed on Wednesday that the company is launching crypto wallet infrastructure to let AI agents autonomously spend, earn, and trade cryptocurrency. The next-generation agents, they stated, will move beyond just advising to directly executing trades and managing positions.
The new Agentic Wallets build on Coinbase’s AgentKit framework and operate via its x402 payment protocol. This setup, according to the programmers, enables agents to autonomously purchase compute and access premium data streams, creating self-sustaining machine economies.
Consequently, these agents can manage positions across protocols like Ethereum layer-2 network Base, automatically rebalancing for better yields without human intervention. Meanwhile, Lightning Labs also released tools the same day, enabling AI agents to transact on the Bitcoin Lightning Network using the L402 standard.
Concurrent with these developments, crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek launched a new platform that lets users create personal AI agents for everyday tasks. Major crypto leaders, including Circle’s CEO and former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, are bullish, predicting billions of such agents will use crypto for payments.
Finally, companies beyond the crypto space are entering the field. Google introduced a Universal Commerce Protocol to power similar agentic commerce systems.
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