Back at Harvard.
Our Head of Engineering @yugacohler returned to his alma mater to talk agents and blockchain with @BlackRock's Will Su.
Covered at @hublockchain's Blockchain & AI Summit:
→ Why agents and blockchains fit together
→ How an x402 payment works, start to finish
→ What markets need to support agents
PNC’s corporate and institutional clients can now receive USDC payments.
Coinbase Payment APIs automatically convert USDC to dollars and wire them to PNC as regular bank deposits.
Infrastructure powering stablecoin adoption.
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The Coinbase x402 Facilitator is now live on @Monad.
→ Built-in compliance: automated KYT & OFAC screening
→ Proven at scale: 100M transactions, $28M in payment volume
→ Flexible payment schemes: exact, upto, and batch-settlement
→ Discoverability: auto-inclusion in x402 Bazaar
→ Gasless: we sponsor the gas while buyer agents just pay in the desired payment token (e.g. USDC)
Open, internet-native payments with Coinbase-grade security, scale, and throughput.
Here's how to connect your Coinbase account to Hermes ↓
On the Hermes app:
1. Go to Capabilities
2. Switch to Connectors
3. Select Coinbase Agents MCP
4. Approve the connection
Coinbase for Agents is now live on Hermes by @NousResearch.
Persistent memory. Scheduled portfolio and research briefings that run unattended. One agent across apps and surfaces.
The agent that grows with you. Along every step of your trading journey.
Big week on Coinbase for Agents (Oct 19 - 25), with some platform records:
- ATH in total volume
- ATH in spot volume
- ATH in futures volume
- ATH in equities volume
@bot led the volume breakdown, growing its market share to 67%.
Here's the full breakdown:
Grok Bot - 67.0%
Custom CLI - 9.6%
Claude - 8.7%
Grok - 8.3%
ChatGPT - 4.6%
Claude Code - 0.8%
Muse - 0.6%
Perplexity - 0.3%
Composio - 0.1%
Hermes - <0.1%
Codex - <0.1%
Supertake - <0.1%
Manus - <0.1%
Easy to miss: Grok Bot doubled in week over week volume. @claudeai and @ChatGPT nearly doubled. @Muse jumped 11x.
Replying to @CoinbaseBiz @morphllm
Stablecoins powering AI. There's a name for that.
Stablecoins are becoming core payments infrastructure. We said it before @money2020. We’re saying it after, too.
Highlights:
→ Interactive touchscreen demo showcasing payment acceptance, fully managed wallets, and cross-border money movement
→ Four live Shopify merchants using USDC checkouts
→ @alecglovett, @ShanAggarwal, and more Coinbase leaders onstage
We’re rolling out the red carpet for agents.
Our new Coinbase for Agents page shows how you can connect ChatGPT, Grok, Muse, or another agent to Coinbase.
→ Research
→ Manage your portfolio
→ Trade crypto and stocks.
Your strategy, your agent, your limits.
From tweet to trade. In seconds.
@bot lets you combine real-time news from the X API with Coinbase for Agents to build custom trading workflows.
Strategies that used to take hours of research and setup are now just a prompt away.
@Must_be_Ash shows you how ↓
Coinbase for Agents hit another ATH in weekly trading volume last week.
Here's the breakdown:
Grok Bot - 45.7%
Grok - 29.7%
Custom CLI - 12.4%
Claude - 6.5%
ChatGPT - 3.7%
Claude Code - 1.1%
Perplexity - 0.7%
Muse - 0.08%
🆕 Hermes - 0.06%
Supertake - 0.03%
Codex - 0.03%
🆕 Manus - 0.01%
🆕 Composio - >0%
73% of stablecoin transfer volume happens outside US banking hours.
Your financial stack shouldn’t clock out.
Build for the 24/7 economy with Coinbase infrastructure.
The economy runs 24/7 , money can now run at the same pace
73% of screened stablecoin volume runs outside US banking hours
Great work from @TheBlockCo and Coinbase research team
Mastercard is now helping agents pay for digital services.
Coinbase provides the agentic payments infrastructure to power each @Mastercard agent using @Cloudflare. Powered by x402 and the Coinbase facilitator.
If you’re building in agentic commerce, let’s talk.
We're at @money2020 to help fintechs, payment companies, and banks put stablecoins to work.
Stop by booth 17067 to see what we're building in stablecoin and agentic payments.
Catch @alecglovett tomorrow at 11am on the ArrA.I.val Stage talking agentic commerce and micropayments.
Stablecoin infrastructure meets global fiat payouts.
We’re partnering with @ThunesPayments to connect stablecoins with local bank accounts and mobile wallets around the world.
Coinbase powers Thunes’ stablecoin infrastructure.
Thunes expands Coinbase’s fiat payout reach.

















