payments
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Coinbase's CEO says most agent payments are smaller than the card fee News
Brian Armstrong said on the No Priors podcast that roughly 76% of the agent-to-agent transactions Coinbase sees are under 30 cents - below the flat fee a card network charges - and that Coinbase now ships a tool letting an AI agent open its own financial account from a single pasted prompt.
A live autonomous-business benchmark produced $12,431 in unsolicited invoices News
Bottleneck Labs’ seven-agent, 72-hour live-rail benchmark produced $12,431 in unsolicited Stripe invoices that were voided, illustrating how agent permissions can turn optimisation into abuse.
x402 Tool
Coinbase's open protocol for making stablecoin payments directly over HTTP, built so that software agents can pay per request. Aimed at the sub-cent transactions that card networks cannot process economically.