COINBASE UNVEILS PAYMENTS MCP FOR AI AGENTS

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Coinbase's Payments MCP enables AI agents and chatbots like Claude and Gemini to access blockchain wallets and execute crypto transactions via natural language. It leverages the x402 payment standard to allow agents to discover and pay for any x402-compatible service, including web scraping, image generation, or agentic commerce. The Model Context Protocol tool runs locally with minimal user input and email sign-in. The release follows Coinbase and Cloudflare's x402 Foundation initiative to standardize AI payments, positioning stablecoins as optimal infrastructure for autonomous agent commerce.