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summary
X2X provides a well-typed schema to declare payments across rails so agents express “I want to pay” instead of filling 14 form fields, and it runs on ~15 chains including Solana, Base, Ethereum plus card rails; agentic payments are nascent at roughly $15 million annualized while X2X just hit its 100 millionth transaction and does about 50 million transactions annualized; stablecoins enable microtransactions and instant settlement; Coinbase CDP offers custody, settlement, an optional facilitator with KYT and OFAC screening — give an agent a wallet and five dollars and try it.
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chapters (35)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:31Agentic Payments and the X2X OG
- 0:52Audience Poll: Who Has Done an X2X Transaction
- 1:20Go Try Agentic Commerce Yourself
- 1:48Volume Stats and Anthropic Fable Launch
- 2:30Why AI Agents Need to Make Payments
- 3:22How X2X Standardizes Payment Declaration
- 3:46Why Agents Need Deterministic Tools
- 4:44X2X Across 15 Blockchains and Card Rails
- 5:04Why Stablecoins for Agentic Payments
- 5:42CDP as Coinbase's Version of AWS
- 6:19The Infrastructure Stack: Settlement to Custody
- 7:22The Edge Determines Human, Agent, or Business
- 7:46Shopify and Merchant Acceptance Examples
- 8:11Agentic Payments as a Config on Existing Infrastructure
- 8:32The Pivot to Agents Like the Open Web
- 9:30Why Businesses Need Custody and Compliance
- 9:53Competing on a Level Playing Field
- 10:23AWS Agent Core Adopts X2X
- 10:43Marketing and Research Agents Using X2X
- 11:57The Number One Enterprise Question: Compliance
- 12:27How the Facilitator Lowers the Barrier
- 13:20CDP's Facilitator With KYT and OFAC Screening
- 13:53Safe Defaults That Drop Barriers to Entry
- 14:25Why Conservative Enterprises Are Coming Around
- 14:59The Magic Moment for Agentic Payments
- 15:21Hot Take: 2026 as the Year of Vibe Trading
- 15:50Agents Trading Autonomously via X2X
- 16:30Why Delegating to Trading Agents Is Fun
- 16:57Hot Take: How Mundane AI Is Right Now
- 17:22The Share Research Papers Era of AI
- 18:02Why Capabilities Made the Internet Interesting
- 18:38Why Payments Make AI Less Mundane
- 18:55Giving Agents Access to Valuable Secrets
- 19:17Closing
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