AI Agents Set to Drive Next Wave of Crypto Growth, Coinbase Says

Coinbase Global is predicting that crypto's next wave of growth will come from AI agents transacting with each other and making their own agent-to-agent economy.

The company claims that the preconditions for this growth have already been met, citing over 100 million agent payments on its Base blockchain in the first quarter of 2026.

According to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, AI agents will eventually out-transact all humans combined. Currently, most agentic payments settle in stablecoins, and no single network has locked in the standard, but Solana and Ethereum are the best candidates for assets that could benefit from this trend.