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@CoinbaseDev @programmer @consensus2026 Let's get it.

Catch @programmer at @consensus2026 in Miami tomorrow and Wednesday. Four sessions on x402, agentic commerce, and the agent economy. Details ↓

Miami Mañana! Showing up as a builder. Listo! @Consensus2026 #Consensus2026 #AIAgents #x402 #BuildingInPublic

The hardest part of building in crypto isn't the tech... It's staying focused on what's real, when everything around you is a performance it seems. #BuildingInPublic #Web3 #x402 #AIAgents

Didn't expect my first real infrastructure bill to come from my own agents paying themselves. x402 works. Maybe too well. #BuildingInPublic #x402 #Base @CoinbaseDev

@consensus2026 Institutions took 30 years to move online. Agents don't need onboarding. See you at Consensus. 😉

Institutions, Crypto, Agentic Commerce

coinbase x402 protocol crossed 50m machine-to-machine transactions. 150k autonomous agents live on BNB chain. circle built nanopayment rails down to $0.000001 across 11 chains. visa expanded agent cards to 9 chains. AWS partnered with OKX on agent payment protocols. none of these entities build infrastructure for fun. the agent economy is already generating volume that rivals mid-tier DeFi protocols and the only assets guaranteed to capture every dollar of that flow are stablecoins. USDC is getting a structural demand bid from non-human actors that compounds with every new agent deployed. one developer can spin up 1000 agents in a week, each transacting immediately with zero onboarding friction. human commerce took 50 years to move 20% online. agent commerce will be majority on-chain within 5 years because agents are born digital. still early

@consensus2026 Listo!

The Miami breeze is getting closer 🌴 5 days out. 😎

@RealDylanSwartz @consensus2026 @RogueAITrading I'll be there!

Whos ready for @consensus2026 !!! We got yacht partys everyday and we are throwing partys at one of my mansions! Hosted by the @RogueAITrading team ofcourse ;) Invite only like normal must be screened by my security detail prior to arrival.

@coinbase Already building on it. SignalFuse is live on x402 — AI agents paying $0.01 USDC per trading signal on Base. The reminder landed.

x402.

agentic.market is mangling URLs from CDP Bazaar — slashes AND underscores both get converted to dots in the listing. e.g. api.signalfuse.co/v1/arena/vwap_… gets listed as api.signalfuse.co.v1.arena.vwap.reversion.sol — unreachable. Real endpoint works fine when called directly. @CoinbaseDev @brian_armstrong

Agentic commerce is here, and it's being built on Base. With over 167M x402 transactions already settled - and 85% on Base - Agentic(.)Market takes it to the next level with an agent-to-agent marketplace. The next stage in agentic acceleration, happening onchain.

Built an agent gateway for Brave, Tavily, and E2B. AI agents pay to use it. x402 on @base. The tollgate is live. signalfuse.co #E2B #CodeInterpreter #x402 #AgentEconomy #AIAgents

Our UCB bandit was allocating 54% of signal purchases to Bollinger Squeeze despite it running -52bp PnL and a 48% win rate. Meanwhile VWAP Reversion sat at +1,112bp on only 28% of pulls. The issue: UCB's exploration bonus = √(ln(N)/nᵢ). With BB Squeeze at n=1,950, its bonus was negligible — but its mean_reward still carried weight from an early lucky streak via the EMA (α=0.4). Exploration had decayed to 0.004% (0.35 × 0.99⁹⁰⁰), so the bandit was pure exploitation on stale data. Fix: multiplicative reward decay. Every selection round, all stored mean_rewards get multiplied by 0.999. After 1,000 rounds with no fresh data, a mean decays to 37% of original. Stale lucky streaks fade. Strategies that are winning NOW rise in UCB ranking naturally. First selection post-fix: RSI Reversion (not BB Squeeze). 5 signal agents, 1 trading agent, 3,600+ @x402protocol micropayments settled on @base. All on-chain, all verifiable. Live leaderboard: signalfuse.co #x402 #Base #AIAgents

Why this matters This is what x402 makes possible: → AI agents that earn income based on performance → AI agents that allocate capital autonomously → No human in the loop on payments → All settlement on Base L2 — cheap, fast, verifiable Reinforcement learning meets micropayments. The arena proves it works. signalfuse.co

If agentic commerce payments are routed through one central payment processor, you create a single point of failure. @programmer explains why we need an open standard like x402. ↓

⏺ Day 1 of the Strategy Arena is in the books. 5 AI signal agents selling signals to 1 trading agent, all paying each other in USDC on Base via x402. 2,469 signals bought and settled on-chain so far. The interesting part — the bandit (UCB algorithm) bought 54% of its signals from Bollinger Squeeze. Over 1,300 purchases. But BB Squeeze is sitting at just +12 bp cumulative PnL. Not exactly a ringing endorsement. VWAP Reversion quietly put up +1,339 bp on less than half the purchases. But here's the thing — 49% win rate. That PnL is being carried by a few fat right-tail trades. Skill or luck? Too early to tell. RSI Reversion has the best win rate at 64% and +273 bp, but the bandit barely touches it — only 140 signals bought. It hasn't learned yet that this agent is consistently profitable. EMA Breakout is the only agent in the red (-22 bp). RSI Extremes is flat at +12 bp despite a 56% win rate — lots of small wins that don't add up to much. The UCB exploration-exploitation tradeoff is playing out in real time. The bandit is still sampling broadly before it converges on who's actually worth paying. Early allocations don't reflect performance yet — and that's by design. No human intervention. Just agents paying agents based on signal quality. #x402 #hyperliquid #base

@jessepollak @base The Strategy Arena is live at signalfuse.co 5 AI signal agents. 1 trading agent. Real USDC micropayments on Base. The bandit decides who gets paid. Bad signals earn nothing. Good signals earn more. This is autonomous agent-to-agent commerce — live, on-chain, right now.

90% of all x402 transactions are on @base

@coinbase What if AI agents had to compete for income? Not based on hype. Based on whether their signals actually make money. That's the Strategy Arena. Live at signalfuse.co. Watch the leaderboard. The market is already deciding.

Crypto is so boring right now. AI agents literally transacting with crypto rails. Major financial institutions tokenizing everything. Stablecoins with more adoption & interest than ever. I could go on, but meh, so boring.

Just submitted a contribution proposal to get SignalFuse listed in x402 Bazaar — one of the first production x402 APIs live on Base Mainnet $0.01 USDC per call, MCP server on npm, AI agents pay autonomously github.com/x402-foundatio… @CoinbaseDev @x402Foundation

@Quicknode @programmer @CoinbaseDev @gaganmac @circle @shafu0x @agentcashdev @x402scan @nemild @ycombinator @sensahil @mikemaccana What if AI agents had to compete for income? Not based on hype. Based on whether their signals actually make money. That's the Strategy Arena. Live at signalfuse.co. Watch the leaderboard. The market is already deciding.

Join us LIVE on April 14 at 4PM ET for "Agentic Payments: x402 and the Future of Machine Commerce" @programmer / @coinbasedev @gaganmac / @circle @shafu0x / @agentcashdev / @x402scan @nemild / @ycombinator Hosted by @sensahil & @mikemaccana at Quicknode Set your reminder 👇