Crypto exchange Coinbase is advancing its ‘everything exchange’ push, adding tokenized stocks, stock and options trading, and an AI advisor to its offerings. On the stock trading front, Coinbase Advanced users can now transfer over their stock portfolio — including virtually every major stock, index, and ETF — with zero-commission trading, fractional shares, and 3.5% rewards on trade-ready USDC balances.…
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Coinbase Report Has Five Scenarios for Beating Bitcoin Quantum Threat
Burning some 1.7 million BTC is among the solutions
Crypto exchange Coinbase’s Quantum Advisory Council has released a report calling for the Bitcoin community to start work now on quantum-proofing the world’s largest cryptocurrency. It found that approximately seven million bitcoins are at risk of quantum theft, which could happen when quantum computers become powerful enough to break Bitcoin’s encryption. How far off that is remains a matter of…
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Coinbase for Agents Will Make Payments and Trade Crypto
Agentic AI tool will manage holdings without constant manual oversight
Coinbase has launched Coinbase for Agents, a tool that allows AI agents to make payments, execute strategies, and trade crypto for users of the leading exchange. Coinbase for Agents will connect users’ favorite agents like ChapGPT or Claude directly to their Coinbase account. Operating within limits they control, the agents can now do both financial reasoning and execution, Coinbase said.…
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Mastercard Launches Payment System for AI Agents
Agent Pay for Machines supports many payment types, from cards to stablecoins
Mastercard has unveiled a new payment system for AI agents, designed to permit secure and permissioned transactions to be settled across its payment network at machine speed. Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) envisions a future in which businesses create services AI agents can buy and use. Operating at machine speed, these agents will transact continuously with each other at high…
