⚡️ Friends, recently, Coinbase and Solana have been making moves one after another, which suddenly made me realize that the on-chain economy around AI Agents might really be coming.

On February 11th, Coinbase launched something called Agentic Wallets. It’s a wallet that equips AI Agents with the ability to manage their own funds.
Previously, AI could help us analyze market trends and discover arbitrage opportunities, but it could only talk—no hands to act. It was like a person with a brain but no hands. Now, that’s different. With this wallet installed, the Agent can handle identity verification, send and receive funds, trade, and even participate in liquidity mining.
The barrier to entry is very low—you don’t need to know how to code. Just a few commands, and you can set up a wallet for your Agent in two minutes. Plus, since it’s based on the Base chain, Agent operations don’t incur Gas fees, clearly aiming to let the Agent economy take root and flourish on Base.
Coinbase has also considered risk control. You can set transaction limits, enable private key isolation for protection, and even intercept high-risk transactions. After all, letting AI manage money still requires some caution.
Honestly, this direction is very interesting. Imagine: your Agent can monitor DeFi opportunities around the clock, automatically rebalance and arbitrage; or it can buy computing resources and pay for data streaming fees, truly becoming self-sufficient; or even participate in the creator economy, tokenizing content it generates, receiving payments, and making transactions—all autonomously.
Of course, Coinbase’s move has prompted Solana to act as well. Almost simultaneously, the Solana ecosystem’s Crossmint launched a plan for Agents with autonomous wallets. Two ecosystems, almost in direct competition.
It might still be a bit early to say that the Agent economy will become the next big narrative. But for on-chain players, it’s definitely worth paying close attention. After all, when AI can not only think but also act, trade, and make money, the new gameplay might just be beginning.