No Priors · Thursday, September 10, 2026
Coinbase is developing 'agentic finance' to provide financial services for AI agents, allowing them to have their own accounts and conduct transactions. This initiative aims to support the growing agentic economy, which is predicted to eventually surpass the human economy in size.
“The next thing is that the AI agents themselves are going to have to have their own accounts. You know, we want to bank the AIs. They deserve financial services as well. Um, and so we've made some simple tools where with a single command, you just prompt, you paste it into your AI agent, it can now have its own financial account. And it's using a self-custodial wallet and crypto rails.”
“And in the future, I think you're going to want to have these agents have their own spend accounts. Kind of like having a personal assistant or an employee who has their own spend account.”
“There'll be more agents than humans in the not-too-distant future. It kind of stands to reason that the agentic economy will be bigger than the human economy at some point in the not-too-distant future as well.”