The definition of a "user" is shifting from humans to also including autonomous agents.
According to @programmer, these AI agents want to actively participate in the economy and pay for content, information and services.
Workflow builders are due for a rethink.
the world around tools like Zapier & Make is changing & when the primitives change, the product category usually opens up again
"What happens when you replace code with English, and API keys with a wallet?"
There are ~5,000 unique sellers and endpoints available on x402.
That’s thousands of services and tools to give your agents superpowers and economic autonomy.
@programmer explains by using one line in your CLI, your agent can plug into Agentic․Market and access thousands of capabilities.
Standards should create value, not capture it.
@programmer explains that by remaining open and neutral, x402 fosters a competitive level playing field that allows companies to compete to build better services.
New for agentic payments on x402:
Batch settlement lets AI agents fire off API calls without settling each one individually onchain.
Off-chain vouchers. One final settlement. Gasless for both sides (if facilitator-sponsored).
Learn more ↓
🚀x402 now supports batch settlement: Transact at extremely low latency and fractions of a cent
Agents can now escrow funds once, then pay with off-chain vouchers.
x402 sellers can settle a batch of payments in a single transaction, instead of settling every request
Agents are becoming a new class of economic actor:
• Cloudflare: AI bot traffic > human traffic by 2027
• Slack: Slack agents > humans within 2 years
• Microsoft: Software users shift beyond humans
• Nvidia: 100 agents per employee
Economic actors need money.
What’s driving growth in onchain utility?
→ Broader access to crypto as an asset class
→ Stablecoin payments going mainstream
→ Tokenization at institutional scale
@brian__foster joined Aladdin’s Never Done podcast by BlackRock to discuss how Coinbase is building infrastructure across all three.
Great discussion with Robbie Mitchnick and Meera Jessa on our long partnership with @BlackRock and how @coinbase is building infrastructure for the next generation of crypto adoption.
agentic(.)market week 3:
shipped onboarding for both sides of the marketplace. sellers get a setup wizard. buyers get an interactive demo.
plus verified filtering so your agent only talks to first-party services.
three things shipped 🧵
That's a wrap on the Agentic Track at the @easya_app + @consensus2026 hackathon in Miami!
3 days. 5 finalists onstage. 3 winning teams shipping agents that discover, pay, and execute on @base via x402 + AWS.
Meet the winners ↓
"Agents don't see ads."
@programmer at @consensus2026 explains why ads stop working when AI agents are the visitors, and why microtransactions are what replace them in a $3 to $5 trillion agentic economy.
💳 @programmer: "AI is about to break the internet's economic model."
The x402 founder talks why agents ignore ads, and the $3-5T agentic economy that needs micro-transactions. On the @Anchorage Digital Mainstage at @consensus2026.
This is a huge breakthrough for enterprise-grade agentic commerce.
Coinbase infrastructure is now integrated with the agentic payments stack of the world's largest cloud provider.
Get ready builders! 🚀
Coinbase Developer Platform and @AWSstartups are sponsoring the Agentic Track at the @easya_app and @Consensus2026 hackathon next week in Miami, May 5-7.
Details ↓