Today, Coinbase unveiled Agentic Wallets, a system that enables autonomous artificial intelligence agents to hold funds, execute blockchain transactions, and manage digital identities without human intervention.
Introducing Agentic Wallets, our first-ever wallet infrastructure designed specifically for autonomous agents.
Give your agent the power of a wallet. Let your agent manage funds, hold an identity, and transact on-chain without human intervention. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/Ns0SmSIys4
– Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️ (@CoinbaseDev) February 11, 2026
The product marks a strategic push by the company to position itself as foundational infrastructure for AI-driven crypto systems, enabling software agents to operate as independent participants in on-chain economies rather than passive tools.
Agent wallets integrate the x402 protocol, a payment standard designed for machine-to-machine activity that has already processed more than 50 million transactions.
The protocol supports automated use cases including API access fees, IT payments, and agent-to-agent resource purchases.
Developers can deploy and fund agents in less than two minutes using the company’s command-line tool, with a pre-built library of financial functions including trading, earning yield, transferring funds and sending payments.
Agents operating through wallets can transact on Base, the company’s Layer 2 network, without paying gas fees directly, removing a common barrier to continuous automated operations.