Coinbase Wallet plans to add AI agent capabilities this year

A Coinbase product manager says the self-custody wallet is next in line for agent features, building on infrastructure the company has been rolling out for two years Coinbase Wallet plans to add AI agent capabilities this year, according to Oxxbid, a Coinbase product manager focused on trading. The specifics of the wallet rollout have not been spelled out. What Coinbase has already built The wallet plan does not start from zero. Coinbase has stacked up a series of agent-focused products, and the Wallet looks set to inherit much of that groundwork. The biggest piece arrived on February 11, 2026, when Coinbase launched Agentic Wallets. These give AI agents the ability to handle on-chain activity by themselves. That includes spending, trading tokens and generating yield. That spending limit is the key design choice. Agentic Wallets let users define how much an agent can spend. On-chain trades and transactions also lean on user-approved actions. Underneath the wallets sits x402, a payments protocol built for machine-to-machine transactions. By early November 2026, it had processed over 50 million transactions. Coinbase for Agents and the plain-language trade The second pillar is Coinba...