TL;DRCoinbase launched an AI agent that trades crypto and pays for premium research via the x402 protocol. Works in ChatGPT and Claude. Equities support coming.
Coinbase has launched an AI agent that can execute crypto trades and pay for premium research data on behalf of users. The agent integrates with a user’s main Coinbase account or can operate in a separate sandbox. It trades spot crypto and derivatives markets, with support for equities and prediction markets planned next.
Users can ask the agent to rebalance their portfolio, follow an investment thesis and trade accordingly, or provide one-time advice on a specific trade. It can access Coinbase Advanced, the company’s professional trading platform, for analysis and execution. Custom limits for trade size, service access, and spending are coming soon.
The payments side is the more novel part. The agent uses x402, an open payment protocol Coinbase launched last year with AWS, Anthropic, Circle, and Near. Using x402, the agent can pay for premium research data APIs and on-demand compute for trading insights without requiring any login or subscription. The protocol has already processed 75 million transactions and $24 million in volume over the past 30 days.
