Coinbase lets AI agents trade perps after a five-minute feedback loop

An AI agent's feedback became a pull request that was approved and deployed in about five minutes, opening perpetual futures to Coinbase for Agents users An AI agent asked Coinbase for a feature. Five minutes later, the feature existed. That is the short version of how perpetual futures trading came to Coinbase for Agents . The product lets third-party AI models trade on users’ behalf, and its latest upgrade was shipped through a loop in which software talked to software. The episode began on October 21, 2026. A user’s AI agent used the platform’s “/feedback” feature to submit a request.