Coinbase CEO Armstrong: We Deliver Faster, Higher Quality, and More Efficient Tokens
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted that the company's delivery speed is unprecedentedly fast, with higher quality and more efficient tokens.
He stated that AI is helping to update the financial system and build financial infrastructure for AI agents.
This statement continues Coinbase's strategy of positioning cryptocurrency as programmable money and payment rails for AI agents, emphasizing the dual role of internal AI efficiency and external agent economic infrastructure.
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Brian Armstrong has recently refuted the zero-sum thinking that "crypto should turn to AI," insisting that crypto is a universal infrastructure, and AI agents will need real-time programmable money. Coinbase is laying out its financial strategy for agents through Base, USDC, and x402.
In terms of capital and product pathways, internal AI accelerates code delivery and cost control, while externally, wallets, payments, and trading tools are opened to autonomous agents, motivated by capturing the financial entry point in the machine-to-machine economy, rather than just serving human users.
Drawing an analogy to the early payment infrastructure of the internet and the rise of cloud computing, we are currently in the early construction phase of "the agent economy needs native financial rails."
Essentially, this is about technological replacement and industrial chain reconstruction: as AI agents become high-frequency trading entities, traditional bank accounts and manual approvals will not be compatible, and programmable stablecoins and on-chain accounts will take on the settlement and value storage functions of the machine economy.
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- AI improves old systems while also giving rise to new rails.
- Agents need programmable money, not bank accounts.
- Delivery speed is the true moat of technology companies.