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The Monexus
Vol. I · No. 169
Thursday, 18 June 2026
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Updated 17:01 UTC
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Coinbase hands the keys to the machine: AI agents get their own trading accounts

Coinbase is letting large-language-model assistants like ChatGPT and Claude connect directly to user accounts, trade crypto and eventually spend on the user's behalf — a bet that the next wave of finance will be agentic, and that the exchange wants to be the rails.

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