Coinbase Payments

What Coinbase Payments is

Coinbase Payments is stablecoin payment infrastructure for businesses, available through web and API. Its payment APIs cover acceptance, deposits, payouts, treasury management, and fiat on- and off-ramps. Listed uses include cross-border remittances and payouts, merchant payments, treasury operations, regulated customer experiences, and agent payments. Coinbase says it supports USDC, USDT, PYUSD, local-currency stablecoins, and infrastructure for launching branded stablecoins. Settlement is multichain, led by Base, Coinbase's purpose-built Ethereum layer 2. For merchants, a checkout modal is designed to fit an existing payment flow and allow customers with a wallet to pay. Listed checkout options include wallet-based checkout, payment links, invoices, plugins, and the Checkouts API; Shopify is listed as a supported platform. Coinbase also says its payment solutions integrate with x402, enabling businesses to accept x402 payments and consumers to fund wallets for agents. It reports holding more than 80 licenses and providing programmatic KYC and KYB for businesses launching in regulated markets. Some products and features are not available in all jurisdictions. Pricing is on request. Coinbase describes itself as remote-first and was founded in 2012.