Coinbase's AI Agent Trading Volume Grows 20% Weekly

Trading by automated AI agents on the Coinbase platform is expanding by about 20% every week. Coinbase integrates tools allowing AI assistants such as ChatGPT or Claude to manage trades and payments via a user's account within set limits. The agentic payment protocol, x402, saw activity drop to $372K in October from $29.11M in November of the previous year. Coinbase started a trading competition on Nov. 4 offering a prize pool of $2M.