Coinbase lets businesses accept USDC payments from AI agents
This week, Coinbase (COIN) will allow its Business customers to receive USDC payments directly from AI agents. The rollout is part of a three-product push. Coinbase says the feature fills in the missing pieces of an economy where people are not the ones buying, but software. The update is important for any merchant who wants to attract automated shoppers as customers. And it comes as agent activity is already surpassing human traffic on some of Coinbases own developer pages. Coinbase turns Business accounts into agent checkouts The business-facing piece runs on x402, the payment standard that Coinbase built and incubated. Settlement is via Coinbase Payments. For merchants using Coinbase Business, theres nothing else to wire up to turn it on. USDC transactions are instant and cannot be reversed. Coinbase is also bundling reusable payment links and automatic buyer data collection for reconciliation. Sid Coelho-Prabhu, who leads Coinbase Business, described it as recreating a familiar transaction for a new customer type. Every transaction has two points, he told CoinDesk. The buyer needs a card and a bank account. A seller needs a bank account and a till. “We are delivering that experience for the new online agentic economy,” Coelho-Prabhu said. An agent reads Coinbase‘s developer docs,
