COINBASE FOR AGENTS EXPANDS TO US STOCKS AND ETFS WITH X402

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Coinbase for Agents has added US stocks and ETFs to its trading suite, routing securities through Coinbase Capital Markets Corp. with clearing handled by Apex Fintech Solutions, the same backend powering Coinbase's retail equities business. The platform offers 24/5 trading, fractional shares from $1, and zero commissions, with agents accessing thousands of securities through MCP integrations with Perplexity, Grok, ChatGPT, and Claude. Paired with the equities launch, x402 surpassed 230 million transactions and $54 million in cumulative volume in just over a year, with Coinbase processing more than half of all x402 transactions across the network. A single account balance covers both equity trades and micropayments as low as fractions of a cent, with configurable per-asset permissions and per-action approval guardrails letting users bound agent spending.