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Coinbase is expanding its push into AI-powered finance, enabling businesses to accept USDC payments from autonomous AI agents as part of a broader expansion of its payment, trading and developer tools.According to a Thursday X <a href="https://x.com/coinbase/status/2080322207645863979?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">post</a>, Coinbase Business users will be able to accept USDC (USDC) payments from AI agents through the x402 payment standard, which Coinbase first <a href="https://www.coinbase.com/en-mx/developer-platform/discover/launches/x402" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">introduced</a> in May 2025 to enable stablecoin payments over HTTP for AI agents, applications and APIs.The post also announced AI trading tools that let users monitor orders, access live market data, and execute actions based on predefined conditions, as well as a software development kit for developers building agent-powered applications.Coinbase said the products are designed to support the “agentic economy,” where AI agents can make payments, manage finances and complete other tasks on behalf of users.The company said adoption of AI agents is accelerating, noting that agent-generated traffic surpassed human traffic on its Base documentation pages for the first time last month. However, it added that the internet’s financial infrastructure was built with “one assumption: a human clicking the button,” which has left businesses, developers and users without tools designed for AI agents.The rollout comes as companies increasingly position stablecoins and blockchain-based payments as infrastructure for <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/okx-ai-marketplace-autonomous-agent-economy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">AI agents</a>, an emerging use case that several exchanges and <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/crossmint-enables-visa-card-payments-for-ai-agents-and-autonomous-commerce" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">payment companies</a> are targeting.Magazine: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/heres-why-the-clarity-acts-ethics-deal-may-be-so-hard-to-reach" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Here’s why the CLARITY Act’s ethics deal may be so hard to reach</a>

Coinbase lets businesses accept USDC payments from AI agents

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