According to CoinMeta, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated in an interview with The Wolf of All Streets that the number of agents participating in transactions in the future may exceed that of humans. He believes that as agents begin to perform tasks on behalf of people, the existing payment systems will struggle to meet the demands in terms of speed, global coverage, and small-value payments. Therefore, Coinbase is laying out an agent economy through products such as Base, USDC, and X402.