Coinbase Promotes AiFi Agentic Finance Concept
Coinbase stated, "AiFi is happening. When agents need funding, they choose Coinbase."
AiFi is defined as Agentic Finance, which focuses on agent transactions and the financial layer of the earning and consumption economy, built on top of Coinbase.
The company has launched the Coinbase for Agents tool, allowing AI agents to connect accounts for trading, payments, and workflow execution, with user-controlled limits.
Related infrastructure includes the x402 payment protocol, Agentic Wallets, and on-chain support from Base, enabling agents to autonomously complete machine-to-machine transactions and payments.
Coinbase emphasizes that AI agents will be the next billion users of the internet, requiring programmable money rather than traditional banking rails.
This promotion is product and narrative-driven, reinforcing Coinbase's infrastructure positioning in the agent economy; beneficiaries are developers and agents using its tools, while traditional financial systems lacking agent-friendly payment capabilities are under pressure.
Source: Public Information
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Since 2025-2026, Coinbase has been continuously laying out the agent economy, from the x402 protocol to Coinbase for Agents and Agentic Wallets, positioning stablecoins and on-chain payments as the native currency layer for AI agents.
On the capital path, the company attracts agent traffic through developer tools and the Base ecosystem, promoting the scale of machine-to-machine transactions; the motivation is to seize the entry point of financial infrastructure in the AI era, expanding human users to autonomous agents.
Similar cases can be seen in the early evolution of internet payments from manual checkout to API automation, as well as the rise of automated market makers in DeFi; the current crypto industry is in the early stages of transitioning from human trading to agent-led operations.
Essentially, this is a technological substitution: AI agents compress human decision-making processes, with the mechanism being the combination of programmable money and autonomous execution, shifting the financial layer from "human-driven" to "agent-driven," reshaping the participants in transactions and payments.
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