Coinbase’s internet-native payment protocol, x402, has integrated Concordium’s identity and age-verification system in a move aimed at enabling AI agents to make automated stablecoin payments.

As AI agents increasingly transact, shop, and act autonomously online — a market that can reach $3 trillion to $5 trillion by 2030 — a key issue comes into focus: how to verify that a real person is ...

Update (Dec. 2, 16:20 UTC): This article has been updated to clarify that x402 was initially incubated by Coinbase and is not owned by the exchange. Concordium’s identity and age-verification system ...