Coinbase Empowers Businesses to Accept Payments from AI Agents

Coinbase has expanded its services to accommodate the growing agentic economy by allowing businesses to receive payments from autonomous AI systems.

The company's new feature, which runs on Coinbase Payments infrastructure, includes native support for x402, an open payment standard designed for internet-native, pay-per-use transactions.

Businesses can accept USDC payments from AI agents without needing to build a separate payment flow, and manage and reconcile them within a single account.

Coinbase noted that traditional payment systems were built around the assumption of human interaction, but as agentic traffic grows, businesses need infrastructure that serves both people and autonomous software.