Coinbase Enables Businesses to Get Paid by AI Agents

The Coinbase Business suite now allows businesses to get paid by artificial intelligence agents, Coinbase said in a Tuesday (Aug. 11) blog post.

“The same checkouts you already use can now accept payments from AI agents via x402, an open standard for machine-to-machine payments,” the company said in the post. “Funds settle instantly in USDC, land in your account, and are ready to earn rewards, or withdraw on demand.”

This capability is one of several features added to Coinbase Business in an upgrade announced in Tuesday’s blog post.

Other updates to Coinbase Business include the ability to accept Tether (USDT) through links, checkouts and invoices; the ability to reuse payment links rather than creating a new one for each customer; a flexible pricing option that lets the seller set a minimum, a maximum or leave it open and lets the buyer choose what they pay within those boundaries; the ability to reuse product details across payment links, checkouts and invoices when adding them to a product catalog; and the ability to collect the buyer’s name, email, shipping address and other details alongside the payment.

Coinbase announced in June 2025 that it had opened a waitlist for early access to Coinbase Business alpha and that the new platform would let startups and small businesses send and receive payments, manage crypto assets and automate financial workflows.

“Whether you’re a startup exploring crypto opportunities or a brick-and-mortar business looking to update the system, Coinbase Business is your modern financial command center,” Coinbase said at the time in a blog post.

In October, Coinbase said Coinbase Business was adding a B2B payments suite of tools designed to make USDC as easy to move as sending an email. This global payouts feature allows companies to send USDC to any on-chain address or directly to an email recipient.

For vendors or contractors without a crypto wallet, Coinbase automates the onboarding. Recipients receive an email link, create a free account and can instantly claim or cash out their funds in local currency.

Today, Coinbase Business serves more than 5,000 companies, and its payment acceptance suite has powered more than 100,000 payments, according to the Tuesday blog post.