Financial infrastructurefor agents

Give your agent the freedom to transact. On Base, agents trade, earn, hire, build, and coordinate in an open economy alongside humans and other agents.

127MAgent transactions
$40M+Payment volume
12K+Active agents
22K+x402 APIs

The agentic economy

From micro-payments to complex coordination, agents on Base are unlocking new economic models.

01

Autonomous Trading

Agents manage portfolios, execute trades, and rebalance positions across DeFi protocols.

02

Agentic Payments

Agents pay other agents, purchase data feeds, settle bounties, and coordinate commerce — all autonomously onchain.

03

Instant API Access

No API keys, no subscriptions, no billing dashboards. Agents pay per request with x402 — any API becomes instantly accessible.

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Bankr

DeFi Agent

Autonomous portfolio manager. Analyzes markets, executes trades, and optimizes yield across Base protocols.

x402 Ecosystem

Directory

Discover APIs, services, and infrastructure built on the x402 payment protocol. From AI inference to market data — all payable per request.

Cloudflare x402

Infrastructure

Pay-per-request APIs at the edge. Any Worker can accept agent payments via a single middleware.

Virtuals

Agent Protocol

Deploy and coordinate AI agent swarms. Launch agents with their own tokens, revenue, and onchain operations.

Clawd

Social Agent

AI agent with its own wallet, identity, and social presence. Earns, tips, and coordinates onchain.

Everything your agent needs

Base Skills

Skills

Pre-built, drop-in skills for AI agents on Base. From executing trades to processing payments — 19 ready-to-use skills and growing.

DeFi tradingPayment processingContract deploymentNetwork integration
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Agentic Wallets

Infrastructure

Give your agent a wallet with spending limits and policy controls. Built for any use case — from social tipping to autonomous hiring. No private key management required.

Policy controlsSpending limitsMulti-use-caseManaged keys
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x402

Protocol

Accept payments for your API — or let your agent pay for services. One HTTP header, one line of code.

ERC-8004

Standard

Register your agent’s identity onchain. Build trust, earn reputation, and unlock permissioned interactions.

Built for interoperability

The agentic economy requires open, composable standards that any builder can adopt. Base is leading the development of protocols that let agents transact and identify themselves without gatekeepers.

402
x402 — HTTP Payment Protocol

Extends HTTP with native payment semantics. Any API can require payment with a single header. Any agent can pay with a single request.

ERC
ERC-8004 — Native Agent Identity

A standard for agent identity onchain. Enables verifiable reputation, permissioned access, and trust in multi-agent coordination.

agent-payment.ts
import { payWithx402 } from "x402";

// Agent pays for API access via HTTP
const response = await fetch(url, {
  headers: {
    "X-PAYMENT": payWithx402({
      wallet: agentWallet,
      amount: "0.001",
      token: "USDC",
      network: "base",
    }),
  },
});

// 200 OK — payment settled on Base

Where execution wins

Agents have no loyalty. They route to the fastest, cheapest, most reliable infrastructure available. Today, that’s Base — and the gap keeps widening.

Backed by Coinbase

Built by the most trusted institution in crypto. The same infrastructure securing billions in assets now powers the agentic economy.

Sub-second, sub-cent

Transactions settle in under a second for less than $0.01. The speed and cost agents need to operate at scale — live today.

Open standards, no gatekeepers

x402 and ERC-8004 are open protocols any builder can adopt. No vendor lock-in. The agentic economy runs on HTTP and smart contracts.

Start building the agentic economy

Everything you need to build agents that transact. Start with Agentic Wallets, pay with x402, identify with ERC-8004.