Coinbase's Audacious Plan: To Become the Central Bank for AI

Coinbase, the biggest player in the US crypto scene, doesn't just want to participate in the future AI economy; they want to write its fundamental rules. Their plan to control the  standards  for how AIs pay and get paid on a global scale is one of the most audacious and ambitious moves I've seen from a major tech company in years. They aren't just building a product; they're trying to build the highway system that everyone else will have to drive on in the future.

They envision a future where AIs are negotiating and paying each other for data, computing power, and services, and they want their infrastructure to be the base layer that makes it all possible.

It's a classic Silicon Valley play: announce you're building an  open  standard for everyone, when in reality, you're building a toll road that you control and plan to put a toll booth on. Isn't the whole point of crypto to create open, permissionless systems that are not controlled by a single, centralized entity? Now here comes Coinbase, a centralized corporation, saying they are going to be the arbiter of how AIs transact financially.

So are we truly witnessing a bold step to build the essential infrastructure for the AI economy? Or is this just a preemptive move by Coinbase to become the unavoidable gatekeeper that will take a fee on every single AI-to-AI transaction in the future?

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