"We've been experimenting and building toward this for years with agentic wallets, payment rails, [and] trading tools, but all from a developer-facing perspective," Lincoln Murr, head of AI product at Coinbase, told Decrypt. "We believe agents are no longer a niche developer curiosity, but really a primary way people interact with the internet."
According to Coinbase, the product gives AI agents access to both financial information and transaction capabilities, allowing them to analyze portfolios and execute actions within limits set by the user. Coinbase for Agents is available as both a Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration for web-based AI assistants and a command-line interface for developers.
Coinbase also introduced Coinbase Advisor, which it calls “an SEC- and CFTC-registered in-app financial advisor” that provides AI-powered recommendations and guidance directly within the Coinbase app.
Potential use cases, Coinbase noted, include portfolio rebalancing, recurring investment strategies, cash management, and purchasing premium datasets to inform trading decisions. The company said agents can operate in isolated portfolios and will eventually support additional controls, including spending limits, trade-size restrictions, and permissions governing what services they can access.
Coinbase is the latest company betting that AI agents will become active participants in the economy rather than simply recommendation engines.
