{"id":47972,"date":"2025-09-17T09:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=47972"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:46:37","slug":"crypto-is-the-money-for-ai-says-economist-as-coinbase-ceo-teases-stablecoin-powered-transactions-between-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=47972","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Is The Money For AI, Says Economist As Coinbase CEO Teases Stablecoin-Powered Transactions Between Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Renowned economist\u00a0<strong>Alex Tabbarok<\/strong>\u00a0described cryptocurrencies as the \u201cmoney\u201d for artificial intelligence on Tuesday after <strong>Coinbase Global Inc.<\/strong> (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/COIN#NASDAQ\">COIN<\/a>) CEO teased a new feature that enables AI agents to transact using stablecoins.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI Agents To Use USDC For Quick Settlements <\/h2>\n<p>Tabbarok\u2019s remark was in response to\u00a0<strong>Brian Armstrong<\/strong>\u2018s X post about the integration of the <strong>x402<\/strong>, an internet-native payment protocol developed by\u00a0Coinbase, into <strong>Google&#8217;s <\/strong>new Agentic Payments Protocol,<strong> AP2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgents can actually pay each other now, with x402 powering the stablecoin rail inside Google&#8217;s new Agentic Payments Protocol (AP2),\u201d Armstrong said.<\/p>\n<p>With this integration, agents can now execute tasks themselves that previously required manual intervention, such as payments for data crawls, services or microtasks, Coinbase <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinbase.com\/en-in\/developer-platform\/discover\/launches\/google_x402\">said<\/a> in a separate blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Coinbase &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/25\/09\/47709533\/crypto-is-the-money-for-ai-says-economist-as-coinbase-ceo-teases-stablecoin-powered-transactions-between-a\" alt=\"Crypto\" is the money for ai says economist as coinbase ceo teases stablecoin-powered transactions between agents>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned economist\u00a0Alex Tabbarok\u00a0described cryptocurrencies as the \u201cmoney\u201d for artificial intelligence on Tuesday after Coinbase Global Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) CEO teased a new feature that enables AI agents to transact using stablecoins. AI Agents To Use USDC For Quick Settlements Tabbarok\u2019s remark was in response to\u00a0Brian Armstrong\u2018s X post about the integration of the x402, an internet-native [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-47972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}