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. The agent will operate within its own isolated portfolio, without visibility or access into other holdings. Or, it can simply use your main Coinbase account. Coinbase for Agents will only be able to touch what you’ve given it specific permission to do. Soon, users will be able to set exact…
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Morgan Stanley Jumps Into Low-Fee Crypto Trading
50 basis point fees would undercut competitors
Morgan Stanley’s E*Trade discount brokerage division is jumping into the digital asset arena with a pilot program allowing low-fee cryptocurrency trading. The Wall Street bank’s emphasis is on the “discount” part of discount brokerage, offering trades for just 50 basis points on the dollar, or 0.5%. The launch is Morgan Stanley’s attempt to gain a share of an asset class that was until recently untouchable by banks, according to Bloomberg. The firm is anticipating that decentralized finance, or DeFi, will merge with traditional finance, underpinning a strategy of creating crypto-related offerings on many of its business lines to attract customers. The plan is to roll crypto trading out to all…
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Gemini Exchange Adds Agentic Trading Tools
Permits use of Claude, ChatGPT and other AIs
The Gemini crypto exchange has launched what it says is the first AI agentic trading tool available directly through a regulated, U.S.-based exchange. Agentic AI is a growing trend in the crypto sector and beyond, with users expected to allow AI bots access to their financial activities at a rapidly expanding pace. “Whether you’re a developer building a custom strategy from scratch or a trader who wants to plug in an AI agent and get started, you can now connect to Gemini… to use Claude, ChatGPT, or any other AI to automate your trading in a way that’s as simple or as powerful as you need it to be,” the…
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J.P. Thieriot wants to kick over finance as you know it
Digital money platform Uphold lets users trade everything from bitcoins and stock to gold and carbon emission credits—and put them on a debit card
It’s an ambitious—to say the least—goal for the trading app company, which in September added the ability to trade fractional shares of 50 U.S.-based stocks to its list of 36 cryptocurrencies, 27 fiat currencies, four precious metals and—as of Dec. 1—tokenized carbon offset credits.
