Amazon Unit AWS Partners With Coinbase To Enable USDC Payments for AI Agents

Amazon’s cloud division, AWS, has partnered with crypto exchange Coinbase and Stripe to introduce the ‘Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments.’ This move enables AI agents to make USDC micropayments on the Solana and Base networks.

AWS Integrates Coinbase’s x402 Layer For USDC Payments

In a blog post, AWS announced a partnership with Coinbase and Stripe to introduce Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, with the crypto firms providing wallet infrastructure and payment rails to power these features. These payment features enable AI agents to instantly access and pay for what they use, such as web content, APIs, MCP servers, and other agents.

The top crypto exchange, Coinbase, also confirmed the partnership, stating that Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments has integrated its x402 discovery layer and wallet infrastructure. The exchange noted that this helps AWS developers deploy agents that discover, make micropayments, and use services on their own.

Notably, these AI agents will be able to pay in USDC on Solana and Base. The crypto exchange highlighted this as a massive move for crypto adoption, as it marks the first time a major cloud platform has developed a solution that helps developers build crypto micropayments directly into their agents.

Commenting on this move, Brian Foster, Head of Infrastructure Growth at Coinbase, said, “Enterprises have been telling us the same thing: they want agents that can transact, but they can’t get past legal and compliance review.” He added that AWS developers can now give their financial agents financial autonomy in a comprehensive managed solution.

Key Features Of The Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments

Coinbase stated that AgentCore Payments will help enterprise agents manage micropayments with a single API call that handles wallet authentication, transaction signing, and payment. Meanwhile, the agent does not have access to the private keys.

Furthermore, developers can set time-bound spending limits to ensure agents stop spending within their defined limits. Meanwhile, the Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP) x402 Facilitator includes compliance controls to manage sanctions and illicit-finance risks for every transaction.

The exchange will provide logs, metrics, and dashboards across the entire payment lifecycle, ensuring that every transaction an agent executes is visible end-to-end. The COIN stock is down amid the AWS-Coinbase partnership.

The crypto stock is currently trading at around $193, down over 2% today, according to TradingView data. The stock is down alongside the broader crypto market, with Bitcoin falling below $80,000 today.