Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong said artificial intelligence and crypto are not rival trends.
Summary
- Armstrong expects autonomous AI agents to conduct more daily transactions than humans through crypto infrastructure.
- Coinbase is developing Agentic Finance around x402, Base, USDC, wallets, trading tools and business payments.
- Recent research questions x402 adoption metrics and identifies security weaknesses across facilitator-led machine payment systems.
Instead, he argued that crypto will provide financial infrastructure for autonomous AI agents.
In a July 27 post on X, Armstrong said agents “will eventually transact far more per day than all…
