Coinbase CDP & Questflow: Why Coinbase is Partnering with Questflow: Building the Future of the Autonomous Agent Economy

Introduction

At Coinbase, our mission has always been clear: to increase economic freedom in the world by building trusted infrastructure for the crypto economy. Over the years, we’ve supported the growth of decentralized finance, creator economies, NFTs, and institutional adoption. Today, we see another major wave emerging — the autonomous agent economy.

Questflow, an AI-native automation engine, is at the forefront of this transformation. By enabling AI agents to act on behalf of users — whether in DeFi, content creation, or data coordination — Questflow is pioneering a future where autonomous services transact, collaborate, and evolve onchain.

This vision aligns deeply with Coinbase’s commitment to building secure, scalable infrastructure for the next generation of Web3 applications. That’s why we’re excited to announce our partnership with Questflow. Together, we’re helping unlock the tools that make autonomous agents truly operational: secure wallets, seamless payments, and low-latency coordination.

Why Autonomous Agents Matter

To understand why this partnership is so important, it’s worth pausing on the concept of autonomous agents.

Agents are not new. We already see them in traditional finance (trading bots), customer support (chatbots), and productivity apps (AI scheduling assistants). But these agents mostly operate within walled gardens, limited by centralized APIs, payment rails, and permission structures.

Onchain agents are different. They can:

• Own wallets: giving them identity and the ability to transact natively.
• Move assets: not just simulate actions, but execute real trades, pay for services, and reward contributors.
• Coordinate trustlessly: interacting with other agents and smart contracts without human intermediaries.

In other words, agents are becoming economic actors. And just like humans and organizations, they need infrastructure to thrive: secure wallets, scalable payments, and interoperable coordination layers.

This is where Questflow comes in — and where Coinbase’s infrastructure makes a critical difference.

The Challenges Questflow Faced

Questflow’s mission is bold: create an orchestration layer where autonomous agents can collaborate across Web2 and Web3. But the team quickly ran into three foundational challenges:

1. Wallet provisioning at scale Every agent — whether trading, publishing, or reacting to data — needed a wallet. Creating and securing these wallets manually was impractical, and traditional wallet solutions weren’t built for high-volume, chain-agnostic deployments.

2. Autonomous payments For agents to interact in a genuine economy, they needed the ability to pay each other — for services, data, or coordination — without human signatures, gas payments, or backend workarounds.

3. Low-latency performance Unlike human users, who tolerate seconds or even minutes of transaction time, autonomous agents require near-instant execution to coordinate effectively. Latency kills coordination — especially in DeFi and real-time workflows.

Traditional wallets and payment rails couldn’t solve these problems at scale. A new approach was needed.

Coinbase’s Infrastructure: CDP Wallets & x402

At Coinbase, we’ve spent over a decade building secure, compliant, and developer-friendly infrastructure for the crypto economy. Our tools — from custody to onchain wallets to payments APIs — are designed to abstract away complexity while ensuring security and scalability.

Questflow chose to adopt two of our core technologies: CDP Server Wallets and x402. CDP Server Wallets Built on AWS Nitro Enclaves, CDP Wallets let Questflow provision wallets at scale via API, without requiring user key management. The benefits:

• Speed: sub-200ms signing latency.
• Security: hardware-isolated signing environment.
• Flexibility: chain-agnostic design that fits Questflow’s multi-chain orchestration.

For Questflow, this meant they could generate wallets for every agent — instantly, securely, and without user friction. x402 Protocol Payments are the lifeblood of any economy. x402 allows agents to transact over HTTP, sending and receiving onchain payments without user signatures or gas fees. This was critical for Questflow, as it unlocked:

• Native micropayments: enabling agents to pay one another for data, compute, or coordination.

• Autonomous execution: no need for backend scripts or human approval.

• Real-time responsiveness: agents can transact as quickly as they can react to signals.

Together, CDP Wallets and x402 solved the three critical problems Questflow faced — making the agent economy not just possible, but scalable.

Real-World Impact

Since integrating CDP Wallets v2 and x402, Questflow has:

• Processed 130,000+ autonomous microtransactions, fueling agent-to-agent commerce.

• Integrated 30+ third-party agents (CoinGecko, RootData, DexScreener, Notion, and more).

• Achieved a 95% improvement in wallet setup and coordination via no-code onboarding.

• Enabled real-time workflows across DeFi, content, and social engagement.

These aren’t just technical milestones. They’re signals of a new economic model emerging — one where agents are first-class participants.

Why Coinbase and Questflow Make Sense Together

So why Coinbase? Why now? The answer is alignment:

• Shared Vision: Both teams believe the agent economy will redefine how users interact with digital services.

• Trusted Infrastructure: Coinbase provides the secure, compliant, and scalable foundation Questflow needs.

• Developer Ecosystem: Questflow brings in a new class of builders — AI developers, workflow designers, and automation creators — who can now build confidently with Coinbase’s infrastructure.

• End-User Empowerment: By abstracting away complexity, we enable users to benefit from agent-driven workflows without needing to worry about custody, gas fees, or coordination overhead.

In short: Questflow builds the orchestration layer, Coinbase provides the rails, and together we enable the autonomous agent economy.

Looking Ahead: The Future of Agents

We believe the agent economy is still in its early days. Just as smartphones unlocked the app economy, autonomous agents will unlock entirely new categories of products and interactions.

Here’s where we see things going:

• Financial Services: Agents executing DeFi strategies, hedging risk, or rebalancing portfolios.

• Knowledge Work: Agents coordinating research, publishing content, or managing data pipelines.

• Commerce: Agents negotiating, transacting, and delivering services in real time.

• Cross-Economy Coordination: Agents operating seamlessly across Web2 and Web3, blurring the boundaries between centralized and decentralized ecosystems.

The key to this future is infrastructure — and partnerships like Coinbase + Questflow ensure it’s built securely, scalably, and responsibly.

Conclusion

At Coinbase, we see the autonomous agent economy as a natural evolution of the crypto economy. Just as blockchains gave digital assets programmable trust, agents give those assets programmable intelligence.

By partnering with Questflow, we’re not just supporting a single project — we’re helping shape an entire ecosystem. With CDP Wallets and x402, Questflow agents can provision wallets, make payments, and coordinate autonomously. And with Coinbase infrastructure behind them, they can do it securely, at scale, and across chains.

The future of crypto isn’t just human-to-human. It’s human-to-agent, agent-to-agent, and agent-to-protocol. Together with Questflow, we’re building the rails for that future.