Block has added Bitcoin Lightning support to x402, the HTTP-based payment protocol for automated machine payments, giving Bitcoin a role alongside stablecoins in agent-driven web commerce. It’s a practical upgrade for tiny, frequent transactions — but USDC and other stablecoins still appear to dominate usage.
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Orla has given AI agents stablecoin wallets with hard spending caps, using the wallet deposit as the maximum possible loss. The setup separates machine spending from human spending, adds approval limits, and lets agents pay USDC invoices over x402 without turning autonomy into a blank check.
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Coinbase is betting that AI agents will need fast, programmable money—and it wants Base, USDC, and x402 to be the rails. The setup is promising, but the 100 million transactions on Base include plenty of meme-coin noise, so the real adoption story is still being sorted out.
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Coinbase’s Base network has launched Base MCP, a tool that lets AI agents help manage crypto wallets through chat without ever getting the private keys. It’s a real usability upgrade for crypto — and a very obvious new security attack surface. Base MCP connects Base Accounts to AI agents through chat Private keys stay out […]
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Amazon is previewing Bedrock AgentCore payments, a new Coinbase- and Stripe-backed system that lets AI agents pay for services on the fly. The pitch is straightforward: if software is going to act on its own, it needs a way to spend money without humans playing middleman for every tiny transaction like some exhausted hall monitor. […]
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