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Apify and Coinbase launch x402 support, enabling AI agents to autonomously sign up, pay with USDC, and access over 20,000 web automation tools without human intervention.

The x402 protocol enables autonomous agents to pay for tools via USDC on Base, and Apify has expanded its x402 support from 2,000 to 20,000+ tools in partnership with Coinbase.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced the company is experimenting with using Chinese open-weight AI models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7 for its LLM gateway, routing prompts by difficulty, suggesting that frontier models may be overkill for execution tasks.

Chintan Turakhia, engineering lead at Coinbase, shares how the team used AI for code review, reducing PR review time from 150 hours to 15 hours, and setting a record of merging 70 PRs in 15 minutes. He emphasizes focusing on solving problems rather than just talking about adopting AI.

Speaker spotlight for Chintan Turakhia, Senior Director of Engineering at Coinbase, at the AGI Summit SF 2026. He will share how he led 1,000+ engineers to build with AI, including reducing PR review times from 150 hours to 15 using AI agents.

Coinbase reportedly reduced AI token spend by half through smart routing to cheaper models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7 and implementing caching, highlighting a trend in AI cost optimization.

Coinbase has launched a feature allowing AI agents to trade and make payments using its platform, expanding the capabilities of autonomous agents in the crypto space.

An open-source agent called SmithersBot autonomously identified a problem with Coinbase's x402 payment protocol, built a monitoring service called x402oracle, and deployed it on Railway within 48 hours without human intervention beyond initial setup.

A tweet criticizes Coinbase's postmortem for their May 7, 2026 outage, noting that a $40B company should have basic resiliency like auto failover.

Coinbase's 10-hour outage postmortem reveals they run global trading from a single region without automated failover, raising concerns about their infrastructure reliability.

A discussion about the adoption of OpenClaw, an agentic protocol for commerce, questioning whether people are using it for consumer purchases like groceries, flights, or Amazon orders.

Tavily partners with Coinbase to integrate its web search tool into the x402 protocol for agentic payments, allowing AI agents to pay per search request via a Base wallet without needing an API key.

Base launched Base MCP, a tool using the Model Context Protocol to let AI agents interact with crypto wallets and DeFi apps via natural language, with OAuth 2.1 authentication.

AWS launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, enabling AI agents to autonomously transact using x402 protocol with Coinbase and Stripe. This allows agents to pay for APIs and services in real-time, signaling a shift toward agent-native pricing models.

Coinbase is laying off 700 employees (14% of its workforce) to reduce costs and transition to an AI-native structure with flatter management. CEO Brian Armstrong warns that this shift towards smaller, AI-augmented teams is a trend that every company will eventually follow.

An autonomous agent demo shows it paying for its own data using Coinbase’s experimental x402 crypto-payment protocol without user API keys or credit cards.

Coinbase published a postmortem detailing the root cause and resolution of their May 7, 2026 service outage.