{"id":377,"date":"2026-06-12T18:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:40:08","slug":"coinbase-says-let-the-ai-agents-trade-fartcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase Says Let the AI Agents Trade Fartcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Crypto exchange giant Coinbase announced the launch of Coinbase for Agents on Thursday, which gives users the ability to hand control of their trading accounts to AI agents and eventually have those agents purchase premium information to develop their trading strategies.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=375\">Xbox CEO Is Preparing Gamers for When Hardware Is a Luxury<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Coinbase says the new product lets users connect an AI agent directly to a Coinbase account so it can trade, pay, and run financial workflows within limits chosen by the user. It is available as both an MCP and a command-line interface, with Coinbase pitching the setup as a way to move from AI-assisted financial reasoning to actual execution. The company gives examples such as an agent gradually rebalancing a portfolio toward 60% bitcoin, 20% ETH, and 20% SOL, setting limit orders during market drops, monitoring idle cash, or buying premium data to decide when to dollar-cost average into a crypto asset.<\/p>\n<p>Crypto spot and derivatives trading are enabled at launch, while Coinbase says stocks, index funds, prediction markets, and commodities are on the roadmap.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>TechCrunch reported that the product can run through a user\u2019s main Coinbase account or a separate subaccount, and that future controls will include maximum trade size, approved services, and spending limits. Robinhood stepped into the same general territory late last month, letting users create separate AI trading accounts with a pre-loaded balance for stock trades.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Letting an AI model trade with real money is an obvious \u201cwhat could go wrong?\u201d setup, even before getting to crypto\u2019s price volatility. According to The Verge, Robinhood\u2019s own warning for its agentic trading feature says it can involve \u201cthe possible loss of your entire investment,\u201d which is not exactly a soothing onboarding message.<\/p>\n<p>With Coinbase, the risk is layered on top of an industry where even relatively established assets can move violently, while smaller tokens, derivatives, prediction markets, and memecoins can quickly look more like gambling products than investments.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Is Coinbase right about AI agents?<\/h2>\n<p>The broader pitch that crypto rails are uniquely suited for AI agents also took a hit earlier this week, as a new Crypto x AI survey from the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts found that the overlap remains early and largely unproven. According to the paper, showing that an AI agent can pay with stablecoins is not the same as showing that it necessarily should\u2014especially when credit cards, tokenized cards, PayPal-style systems, and bank-connected APIs already exist.<\/p>\n<p>That said, a March report from the Bitcoin Policy Institute found that AI agents chose either bitcoin or stablecoins as their top option for transferring and storing value in 81.5% of tested scenarios. The study said bitcoin was the preferred long-term store of value, with that choice appearing in 79.1% of responses, while stablecoins were more commonly selected for payments.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=373\">SpaceX Hits Wall Steet With the Biggest IPO in History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The recent Coinbase for Agents announcement also kind of muddies this common crypto talking point. After all, if an AI agent is trading through Coinbase, it is not exactly roaming a permissionless financial frontier. It is using a centralized, regulated, and custodial exchange account.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s also worth considering that Coinbase\u2019s blessing has never been a guarantee that a crypto idea is especially coherent. For example, Coinbase\u2019s Base ecosystem recently made a heavy push into so-called \u201ccreator coins,\u201d which have proven to be about as useful as the many Solana-based memecoins that eventually became the focus of a number of lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, Coinbase isn\u2019t always wrong, it\u2019s just that a Coinbase product launch should not be confused with evidence that the underlying crypto narrative makes any practical sense. It is also worth looking at Strategy as an awkward comparison point. Coinbase had a multi-year head start as one of the largest gateways into crypto, yet Strategy managed to surpass Coinbase\u2019s market cap relatively quickly by doing something far simpler than the crypto exchange\u2019s various experiments with blockchain technology: buying as much bitcoin as possible as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The name of the game going forward is acquiring as much bitcoin as possible and building financial services and products based on those reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy and Tether appear furthest along with this approach. Coinbase and others got distracted by the Ethereum and crypto Sirens. pic.twitter.com\/z3qCk482sv<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyle Torpey (@kyletorpey) October 9, 2025<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For now, the most relevant point of synergy between crypto and AI has to do with blockchain and smart contract security. Manuel Ar\u00e1oz, a co-founder of OpenZeppelin, recently wrote that he now considers all of DeFi unsafe and has privately advised friends and family to even exit blue-chip protocols. His reasoning was straightforward: \u201cCoding agents are superhuman at finding vulnerabilities,\u201d while defenders must fix everything and attackers need only one working bug.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=371\">GoPro Mission 1 Pro Review: The Best GoPro, Just Not the Best Camera<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why lose money trading Fartcoin when an AI agent could lose it for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Coinbase Says Let the AI Agents Trade Fartcoin - 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