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Introducing Agentic Wallets: Give Your Agents the Power of Autonomy

Coinbase Developer Platform · 2026

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Coinbase's announcement of Agentic Wallets for AI agents. The companion cites it, with Mastercard and Google's AP2 protocol, for card networks and payment firms issuing credentials that let registered agents spend within limits their principals set. It documents payment rails in the habitat people built, rails that still keep spending under a principal's control.

Cited in
the companion paper (Companion §2)
Used for
Habitat construction; payment rails
Strand
The agent economy · Payment rails & agentic commerce

Cite

@misc{coinbase2026introducing,
  title = {Introducing Agentic Wallets: Give Your Agents the Power of Autonomy},
  author = {Coinbase Developer Platform},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Coinbase},
  url = {https://www.coinbase.com/developer-platform/discover/launches/agentic-wallets},
}