x402, the AI payments standard backed by Coinbase, has launched Agentic.market, a new marketplace where AI agents can find and utilize thousands of AI-friendly services without requiring API keys. Coinbase product lead Nick Prince shared that the platform is a solution to the problem of agent tool fragmentation and can also facilitate internet payments using stablecoins, an area of growing interest among enterprises for autonomous commerce.
He pointed out that hundreds of thousands of AI agents have already conducted transactions worth hundreds of millions, indicating a strong market for such structured discovery and integration solutions.
Agentic.market is a kind of marketplace or shop window for finding, contrasting, and employing apps and websites compliant with the x402 standard. The range of connected services is diverse, including CoinGecko for cryptocurrencies, Google Flights for travel, and X for a social platform, which means AI agents can be provided with access to data, travel, and social networking.
Besides offering a web panel for people to grade the quality, the marketplace has also made available a programming interface through which agents at runtime, and without human intervention, can perform a search, apply filters, and implement the most suitable capabilities.
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Initiated in May 2025, the x402 protocol was developed as a mechanism for AI agents to carry out internet payments by means of stablecoins. Inspired by the HTTP status code 402, Payment Required, its core elements are wallets and the “skills” which are code instructions allowing agents to buy and sell services.
The goal of this framework is to serve as a means for facilitating machine-to-machine transactions both in Web3 and through classical APIs.
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The x402 Foundation was set up to take charge of the protocol and gathered a group of initial supporters, including Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Shopify, Stripe, Circle Base, Polygon Labs, Solana Foundation, Thirdweb, and KakaoPay.
Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, believes that soon it will be the AI agents that are transacting online rather than humans, and Jeremy Allaire, Circle’s CEO, forecasts that there will be billions of agents on blockchains within five years.
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