Coinbase launches tool to let AI agents manage trading and payments
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- Coinbase for Agents will initially allow agents like Chat GPT or Claude to execute crypto trades using natural language instructions.
- "The whole idea is to give agents access to money and, through that financial independence, improve their set of capabilities to pretty much anything on the internet," Lincoln Murr, Coinbase's AI product lead, told CNBC.
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Coinbase on Thursday launched a new tool that gives AI agents the ability to trade and transact directly on users' behalf, representing a broader bet that AI agents will become a primary interface for people's financial activity.
Coinbase for Agents will initially allow agents like Chat GPT or Claude to execute crypto trades using natural language instructions. For example, customers can prompt their agent to rebalance portfolios, identify trading opportunities, execute strategies and manage positions over time. It will eventually expand these capabilities to stocks and predictions.