Coinbase launches AI agent accounts that can trade and spend

Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents, a platform that lets AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude connect to users' Coinbase accounts to trade crypto, access market data and eventually make payments and purchases autonomously. Agents can use natural language commands to access advanced trading tools and carry out tasks from portfolio rebalancing to automated strategy execution.

At launch, they can trade spot crypto and derivatives markets, with support for equities and prediction markets planned. The platform integrates x402, an open machine-to-machine payments protocol developed at Coinbase, allowing agents to make small payments for premium research, data APIs and computing resources without subscriptions or manual checkouts.

To manage risk, agents can operate within isolated portfolios and will soon support customizable controls such as spending caps, trade limits and restrictions on which services they can access.

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