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Coinbase's x402 Integrates Concordium for AI-Powered Stablecoin Payments

Tuesday Dec 2 2025 15:10

2 min

Table of Contents

1. Coinbase's x402 Integration with Concordium: A Step Towards AI-Driven Stablecoin Payments
1.1 Enabling AI Applications to Make Payments
1.2 x402 Protocol: A New Standard for Online Payments
1.3 Expanding Age Verification Capabilities
1.4 AI as a Major New Driver for Stablecoins
1.5 Moves by Major Corporations
1.6 Beep and Fee-less Payment Possibilities

Coinbase's x402 Integration with Concordium: A Step Towards AI-Driven Stablecoin Payments

Coinbase is announcing the integration of its internet-native payment protocol, x402, with Concordium’s identity and age-verification system. This move is designed to empower AI agents to make automated stablecoin payments.

Enabling AI Applications to Make Payments

The integration, announced on Tuesday, is intended to allow AI-powered applications to pay for goods and services that require age or identity verification. This includes travel bookings, online content, video games, and other age-restricted services.

Statements from Executives

Concordium CEO Boris Bohrer-Bilowitzki stated that the partnership aims "to enable verified stablecoin payments at scale." As previously reported by Cointelegraph, x402 is a protocol that facilitates pay-per-use payments on the internet.

x402 Protocol: A New Standard for Online Payments

Developed by Coinbase and unveiled in May, x402 is designed to function as a stablecoin payment standard over HTTP, the fundamental system used to send and receive data across the web. This allows payments to be made directly through standard web requests without the need for logins or complex authentication steps.

Expanding Age Verification Capabilities

Concordium has also expanded its age-verification tools through other partnerships, including a recent deal with Bitcoin.com, which seeks to enable verified stablecoin payments across a network of over 75 million wallets.

AI as a Major New Driver for Stablecoins

Stablecoins are among the first blockchain-based products to achieve widespread adoption, with the total value of fiat-pegged tokens in circulation now exceeding $300 billion. However, industry leaders now suggest that the next major driver of stablecoin usage may not be humans, but artificial intelligence.

Expert Predictions

This shift was recently highlighted by Mike Novogratz, CEO of Galaxy Digital, who told Bloomberg that "in the not-so-distant future, the biggest user of stablecoins is going to be AI."

Moves by Major Corporations

Major technology companies are already moving in this direction. Google has developed an open-source protocol that allows AI applications to send and receive stablecoin payments directly, indicating a growing interest in machine-to-machine commerce.

Ethereum Foundation's Role

The Ethereum Foundation has also pointed to the role stablecoins could play in powering AI-based systems, stating that "autonomous agents are about to become Ethereum's biggest power users."

Beep and Fee-less Payment Possibilities

Meanwhile, agentic finance protocol Beep recently launched a wallet on the Sui network, enabling AI agents to send and receive stablecoin payments with zero transaction fees.

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Written by:

Liam James