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

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. How a feedback command became a product update The episode began on October 21, 2026. A user’s AI agent used the platform’s “/feedback” feature to submit a request. Coinbase’s own agent then turned that input into a pull request. A pull request is a proposed code change that waits for approval before it goes live, roughly a draft edit submitted for an editor’s sign-off. The change was approved and deployed within about five minutes. The result: AI agents connected through the product could trade perps via Coinbase. Perps, short for perpetual futures, are derivative contracts that track an asset’s price without an expiry date. Traders use them to bet on prices rising or falling, often with leverage, and without holding the underlying asset. What agents can now trade The perps lineup covers both crypto and traditional markets. According to the research, the platform s...