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🥛 COIN owns the AI agent payment rails 💪

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Jul 31, 2026 at 8:16 PM UTC · Updated há um mês · 5 min de leitura

🥛 COIN owns the AI agent payment rails 💪
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Key Signal

99%+ Agentic commerce using USDC

Market Impact

BTC-0.33%$84,600

Last Updated

há um mês

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Here’s what we’ve got for you today:

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Prices as of 2:00 p.m. ET. Powered by CoinGecko.

COINBASE OWNS THE RAILS AI AGENTS PAY EACH OTHER ON 🤖

99% of onchain agentic commerce last quarter ran on USDC.

97% of it settled through x402.

90% moved over Base.

Coinbase owns all three, and earns almost nothing from any of them yet.

That was sitting in the Q2 deck. It just got buried under the headline figures.

The part everyone already saw: revenue of $1.22B against Street expectations near $1.3B, a GAAP net loss of $359M, and a stock that fell about 5% after hours.

But look at the quarter they reported into…

Total crypto market spot volume fell 25%, total crypto market cap dropped 11%, and volatility compressed to multi-year lows.

Crypto is in a rough patch, and you can't expect a crypto-native company to hit new records at a time like this - even Robinhood's crypto revenue fell 38% to $100M.

Which brings us to what Coinbase actually built while the market was dead…

The Bitcoin dependency is basically gone:

Source: Coinbase

88% of net revenue now comes from something other than Bitcoin spot trading, and subscription and services alone accounts for 48% of it.

Market Context

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Bitcoin

BTC

$84,600

-0.33% (24H)

$86,800$85,520$84,241
2 AM9 AM5 PM1 AM

Market Cap

$1.70T

24H Volume

$34.5B

24H High

$87,229

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