“AI agents now have their own economy.” @sid_coelho of @coinbasebiz says stablecoins are winning in the agentic economy because they’re fast, cheap and built for microtransactions.

I joined @coinbase to make our customer experience better. Four months in, the honest update is I'm feeling conflicted. We are making progress, but still have so much more to do. Trust me, I know there's a lot we could be doing better. But I want you to know the feedback is heard and appreciated by me and the team. Let me share a bit of what we've been doing since I joined. The best support is preventing people from needing support in the first place. Today, fewer customers need to contact support than at any point in our history. Some account restriction holds have dropped from 15 days to 2, and we are getting better at detecting issues and scams before they cause more harm. Obviously, issues still happen, so we're also working on a better experience for customers who need help. We've written the playbook for an end-to-end agentic experience that can solve many common problems immediately, use the context we already have, and bring in the right human specialist faster when judgment is needed. So customers do not have to start over and explain their situation again. What comes next is proving the experience is actually better: higher-quality automated help, fewer repeat contacts, faster access to the right human support when needed, and proactively catching issues before customers even feel the friction. I know we still have to earn the trust of the community, one interaction at a time, but I'm excited for the challenge.

The new @grok 4.6 is smart, blazing fast, cheap and much less annoying than Opus. Sol is not too far behind. Multi model harnesses are also gaining on Claude Code. Anthropic's $1 T mandate of heaven is going to be shortlived imo.

Is your business ready for the Agentic Economy? Coinbase can help you get ahead and enable AI agents as customers. Sign up for @CoinbaseBiz and start accepting stablecoin payments for your business. AI agents will be able to checkout as well - no additional setup required.

🚨Huge update to our Coinbase Payments suite: 1. Accept payments from AI agents without any changes to your checkout or reports 2. Accept USDT with no exchange rate risk 3. Access new payment models on Coinbase Business Coinbase is the best place to access stablecoin payments.

Just dropped a massive update to Coinbase Business □ Get paid by AI agents □ Accept USDT (in addition to USDC) □ Reusable payment links □ Flexible pricing □ Product catalog □ Collect buyer info We now serve over 5000 businesses who want smarter, faster, global money

Excited to welcome @browser_use into the x402 ecosystem today! With 70,000+ GitHub stars and adoption across teams including Manus, Anthropic, Apple, FedEx, and 20+ YC startups, Browser Use is emerging as the browser execution layer agents rely on when APIs aren’t available. The web is becoming agent-native. Payments should be too.

Another awesome launch today from @CoinbaseBiz. CDP Payment Acceptance now supports agentic payments via x402, and Coinbase Business is already integrated, bringing this capability in front of thousands of merchants. The best part? Coinbase Business Merchants don't have to do anything to enable x402 support. They automatically get an agentic payments strategy, powered by stablecoins. We saw the first transactions go through today. Check it out:

We just launched the ability for businesses to accept payments from agents with x402. With a @CoinbaseBiz account, your company can offer products and services to AI agents and humans alike via the same trusted stablecoin infrastructure. Powered by @CoinbaseDev.

"If you're in crypto, pivot to AI." I used to hear versions of this, and it's the wrong way to think about the world. It's zero sum, scarcity thinking. Crypto is a general purpose technology. It's infrastructure, the same way electricity or the internet is infrastructure. It doesn't compete with the next big thing, because it underpins it. It's an *and*, not an *or*. AI being a megatrend takes nothing away from crypto. If anything, it makes crypto more important. AI agents will need their own financial infrastructure and will eventually transact far more per day than all humans combined. They can't open a bank account, they can't wait three days for a wire, they reside in one country. They need real time programmable money (and that's crypto). Agents will need to hold funds and pay for things on their own. We pioneered this with the x402 protocol, Base, and USDC, which now power the vast majority of all agentic payments. Agents will also engage in trading and act as a financial advisor. They will raise or borrow money for new projects they are undertaking. They will eliminate tasks for us around tax planning, portfolio rebalancing, and bill pay. Welcome to the world of Agentic Finance (AiFi). This is what Coinbase is building.

If “agentic commerce” is just another buzzword you see on SF billboards, here’s a simpler explanation: Shopping has always been shopper + card meets merchant + checkout. We’re building that same end to end handshake for AI agents Agents spin up a wallet from @CoinbaseDev and businesses can take their payment through @CoinbaseBiz That’s the announcement this week: businesses can now get paid by AI agents.

Most payment infrastructure was built with one assumption: a human is clicking the button. That no longer holds. Coinbase Business is making it possible for businesses to accept payments from AI agents.