- Coinbase's New Initiative
- AI's Role in the Economy
- Program Details
Coinbase has announced the launch of a grant program aimed at integrating AI with cryptocurrency wallets. The program promises numerous innovative solutions in the automation of financial transactions using AI.
Coinbase's New Initiative
This initiative is set to award $3,000 to each of five selected projects that demonstrate innovative ways to integrate large language models (LLMs) with crypto wallets. The technology behind these AI systems, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude, is being explored for its potential to manage finance-related tasks through blockchain technology.
AI's Role in the Economy
Coinbase CEO Brad Armstrong has expressed the vision that LLMs, if equipped with cryptocurrency wallets, could significantly contribute to economic activities by automating financial transactions on behalf of users. This concept aligns with the broader idea of economically empowering AI systems to participate in the economy in previously impossible ways due to limitations like the inability of AI to hold traditional bank accounts. Coinbase’s engineering lead Yuga Cohler showcased this potential in a demo on X (formerly Twitter) on August 12.
Program Details
The $15,000 accelerator grant program, announced by the Coinbase Developer Platform, seeks to explore a wide range of use cases for AI-driven economic applications. Developers are invited to build AI “bots” that utilize LLMs in conjunction with Coinbase’s Multi-Party Computation (MPC) wallets. The program addresses a key challenge in the development of AI applications: the inability of AI agents to hold bank accounts and conduct automated financial transactions. By moving these activities on-chain, Coinbase aims to unlock new possibilities for AI in the economic landscape.
This initiative by Coinbase represents a significant step forward in exploring and developing AI in the realm of automating financial transactions. The grant program promises to expand the capabilities of AI systems and open new horizons in the use of blockchain technologies.
