How do agentic payments work?
Lincoln Murr (
@MurrLincoln), AI products at Coinbase, joins Eshita (
@eshita) and Khushi (
@khushii_w) to answer an important question: how do agentic payments work?
We go from buying a VPN with Bitcoin at 12 years old to whether agents will run their own businesses.
00:31 Trading a Target gift card for Bitcoin at age 12 01:34 What x402 actually is
05:23 How AWS, Vercel, and Cloudflare legitimized agentic payments
06:45 Why every previous attempt at 402 failed
08:36 Agents can't get bank accounts
09:12 Chargebacks, fraud, and reputation systems
11:40 Agentic payments as a revenue driver for AWS
14:46 The 2020s shift from mobile to agents
16:16 Solopreneurs running companies with fleets of agents
17:45 Why every company will want its own settlement layer
20:15 AI Advisors: regulated financial advice at scale
24:41 Asking an AI for a delta neutral basis trade
29:28 Agents buying premium data to make better trades