Do you understand how huge this is?
If you don’t get it by now, I don’t have the time to explain.
The internet's native "money protocol". Coinbase is resurrecting a 90s era HTTP spec and wiring it to stablecoins. No SDK hell, just headers. And the fact that is running on blockchain rails is obfuscated (this is how it was supposed to be)
• Sub-cent fees, ~2 sec settle time.
• Built-in auth, no API keys.
• Works for browsers, back-ends, and AI agents.
Credit-cards can’t price below $0.50. Dollar-denominated $USDC fixes that.
The use cases are endless:
- Pay-per-request LLM endpoints
- Paywall for LLM data scraping
- Streaming APIs billed by the byte
- Agentic commerce: agents that buy data or GPU cycles on the fly
- IoT devices settling power & bandwidth in real time
Coinbase is planting a flag in the protocol layer of the new internet economy.
Congrats to friends @kleffew94 @MurrLincoln @CoinbaseDev!
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