Coinbase is backing a new marketplace called Agentic.Market, described as an app store for AI agents that buy and sell digital services. The platform sits on top of the x402 micropayments protocol, which already powers Coinbase’s “agentic wallets” for autonomous crypto transactions.
Agentic.market acts as a storefront and discovery layer for services that AI agents can pay for and use on their own.
Coinbase product lead Nick Prince says the goal is to “give humans and their agents access to thousands of services, with zero API keys required.” That means an AI agent can discover an API, check pricing, and start paying with stablecoins without a human manually setting up credentials.
The marketplace builds on a backend index called Bazaar, which tracks x402‑enabled services and their usage. Agentic.Market turns that raw data into searchable listings with live pricing, performance metrics, and integration guides for both developers and agents.
How Agentic.Market and x402 Work Together
Under the hood, Agentic Market relies on the x402 protocol to handle tiny, frequent payments between agents and services. Coinbase says x402 has already processed about 165 million transactions, moved around 50 million dollars in volume, and recorded more than 480,000 transacting agents. Those stats show that an agent economy is forming even before the marketplace reaches mainstream users.
Developers can list their APIs or tools as x402 services, set usage‑based prices, and expose machine‑readable endpoints. In turn, AI agents use agentic wallets to pay per call, buy compute, access premium data, or trigger other on-chain actions. This setup lets agents operate more like autonomous customers than basic bots that only follow fixed scripts.
Coinbase previously rolled out Agentic Wallets, which allow AI agents to hold and spend crypto under predefined controls. Those wallets use x402 to make programmatic payments for DeFi trades, storage, or other services. Agentic.Market now adds a consumer‑style layer on top, so agents can discover what to buy as easily as humans browse an app store.
Growing Vision for an “Agentic” Crypto Economy
The launch fits into Coinbase’s broader thesis that “agentic AI” will become a major user of blockchains. In its research, the company describes agentic AI as software that can sense its environment, make decisions, and take on tasks such as trading, governance, or resource management. These agents could open wallets, deploy smart contracts, and negotiate for services with minimal human input.
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