Coinbase Launches x402Bazaar, an AI-Powered "Search Engine" Platform for Service Discovery and Payments

Coinbase, the leading US cryptocurrency exchange, recently launched x402 Bazaar, an innovative platform described as the world's first "discovery layer" for autonomous AI agents, akin to a dedicated "search engine" for AI agents. x402 Bazaar aims to provide a unified access point for AI agents, enabling them to automatically discover, interact with, and pay for a wide range of external services, thereby breaking through functional boundaries and achieving continuous self-evolution.

For a long time, AI agents' capabilities have been limited by pre-defined scripts and interfaces from early development, resulting in low scalability and slow iteration cycles. x402 Bazaar effectively breaks this bottleneck by building an open service marketplace. AI agents can now autonomously access real-time financial data, invoke multimodal generation tools (such as image and video generation), book performance tickets, and even manage enterprise-level business processes, significantly expanding the breadth and depth of their applications.

The platform is built on Coinbase's proprietary x402 protocol, an open payment standard that enables instant stablecoin payments directly through HTTP requests, without the need for traditional account systems or subscription fees.

Precisely because they eliminate intermediaries and human intervention, AI agents can make autonomous decisions, initiate payments, and invoke services in real-world scenarios, achieving true end-to-end automation.

Coinbase emphasized that x402 Bazaar will significantly promote the adoption of "self-improving AI agents," and in the future, may even lead to the emergence of "unmanned enterprises" entirely operated by AI.

These entities will be able to continuously explore new services, optimize decision-making logic, and expand operational capabilities without human intervention.

This not only represents a major step forward in the integration of AI and blockchain, but also lays the foundational infrastructure for the decentralized autonomous economy (DeAc).