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Coinbase CEO Touts AI Agents Driving Crypto Adoption
Armstrong said AI agents need programmable money and said Coinbase is building Base, USDC and x402 to support machine-speed payments.
- Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong rejected calls for crypto firms to abandon blockchain for AI, arguing on Sunday that crypto provides essential infrastructure for Agentic Finance, or AiFi.
- Unlike traditional bank accounts requiring manual identity checks, AI agents need programmable money; Coinbase uses the x402 protocol, its Base blockchain, and Circle Internet's USDC stablecoin to enable autonomous, machine-speed payments.
- Chainalysis reported that x402-linked payments on Base crossed 100 million transactions after nine months, though the firm noted that meme-coin farming drove much of this early activity.
- Industry builders like Tory Green, CEO of decentralized network io.net, praised the shift toward machine-speed money, yet NeoSoul AI warned that giving unvetted code direct access to financial assets exposes systems to massive counterparty risk.
- Armstrong forecasts that autonomous agents will eventually execute more daily transactions than humans, though success depends on evolving security, spending controls, and regulation, as current data does not yet prove agents exceed human commerce.
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