Coinbase unveils wallets for AI agents

Coinbase has launched Agentic Wallets through its Coinbase Developer Platform to allow artificial intelligence agents to autonomously hold, manage and transact digital assets.

The product, announced on Feb. 11, 2026, is described as the first wallet infrastructure purpose-built for AI agents rather than human users, enabling them to spend, earn and trade without requiring manual approval for every transaction.

Agentic Wallets aim to address a current limitation in which AI agents can recommend financial actions but cannot independently execute transactions involving funds.

The system includes built-in “agent skills” that abstract onchain functions such as authenticate, fund, send, trade and earn into modular components, allowing developers to integrate programmable financial capabilities without building transaction logic from scratch.

At the core of the infrastructure is the x402 protocol, a payments standard for machine-to-machine transactions that Coinbase said has processed more than 50 million transactions and supports automated API payments and programmatic access to digital resources, while following the announcement the Coinbase share price was unchanged at $XX.

Agentic Wallets also enable gasless trading on Base so agents can operate continuously without disruption from network fees, with setup completed in under two minutes via a command-line interface and security controls including transaction caps, enclave isolation, Know Your Transaction screening and compliance monitoring embedded within Coinbase infrastructure.

The launch comes amid rising interest in autonomous AI agents, with projects such as Openclaw drawing attention and ai.com promoting its agentic platform during the Super Bowl, underscoring intensifying competition to build financial rails for machine-driven commerce.