New infrastructure gives AI agents the ability to hold funds, execute trades, and manage onchain activity independently.
Coinbase today unveiled Agentic Wallets, a system enabling autonomous artificial intelligence agents to hold funds, execute blockchain transactions, and manage digital identities without human intervention.
The product marks a strategic push by the company to position itself as foundational infrastructure for AI-driven crypto systems, allowing software agents to operate as independent participants in onchain economies rather than passive tools.
Agentic Wallets incorporate the x402 protocol, a payment standard designed for machine-to-machine activity that has already processed more than 50 million transactions.
The protocol supports automated use cases including API access fees, computing payments, and resource purchases between agents.
Developers can deploy and fund agents in under two minutes using the company’s command-line tool, with a prebuilt library of financial functions including trading, earning yield, transferring funds, and sending payments.
Agents operating through the wallets can transact on Base, the company’s layer-2 network, without paying gas fees directly, removing a common barrier to continuous automated operations.
