Coinbase Business Launches AI Payment Tools for Agent Economy

Coinbase Business has launched three AI payment tools as part of its first anniversary celebration. The suite includes Agent Checkout, which allows merchants to accept payments from autonomous AI agents within their existing account, without a separate checkout process.

The other two tools are Coinbase for Agents and a software development kit (SDK) that enables developers to add agent payments to their services using just a few lines of code.

Agent Checkout lets merchants integrate payments with AI agents directly into their accounts, while Coinbase for Agents connects AI systems to trading and investment workflows. The SDK allows developers to build agentic payment capabilities into their own platforms.

The tools settle transactions in USDC over the x402 standard, an open protocol built by Coinbase that enables AI agents to pay for web resources without an account or subscription. This has significant implications for the agent economy, which is expected to reshape the internet.