Coinbase CEO touts agentic finance as Base tops 100M AI payments

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says AI agents will expand crypto adoption, pointing to Base, USDC and x402 as key pieces of agentic finance.

Source: Chainalysis

Chainalysis Findings

Chainalysis also found that agentic payment wallets were typically newer, held more asset types and carried smaller balances than average Base users.

Cointelegraph asked Chainalysis for updated x402 activity figures and details on its tracking methodology, but the firm had not responded by publication time.

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