Coinbase unveiled its AiFi strategy, an infrastructure allowing artificial intelligences to manage crypto accounts, execute transactions and perform automated payments between machines with minimal human intervention. Via Coinbase for Agents, users can connect AIs like ChatGPT or Claude to their account using the MCP protocol, with the ability to set permissions and trigger conditions. The x402 payment standard developed by Coinbase has already processed over 205 million transactions with approximately 200,000 vendors, with an average basket of 0.52 dollar per transaction. The USDC stablecoin represents 99% of on-chain agentic commerce. Google, Visa, Mastercard and AWS are also developing their own agentic payment standards, in a market where Coinbase coexists rather than replaces these players.
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