Coinbase is testing AI agents modeled after co-founder Fred Ehrsam and former CTO Balaji Srinivasan that integrate into workplace communications to provide employee feedback, CEO Brian Armstrong announced Saturday.

The Fred agent functions as a strategic executive assistant, helping staff “refine documents, strategies, and concepts,” while the Balaji agent is intended to “spark innovation and new perspectives.”

Both Ehrsam and Srinivasan shaped Coinbase's early growth, with Armstrong characterizing them as "legendary former Coinbase employees" in Monday's announcement.

Coinbase engineer Travis Bloom reported discussing a new idea with the Balaji agent, saying it “really helped crystallize the vision.”

Armstrong added that as a “next step,” the exchange would “make it easy for any employee to spin up other agent employees” and that future agents will likely not be “digital twins” of real individuals.



Coinbase and agentic AI

The executive AI agents complement Coinbase's broader artificial intelligence infrastructure, which includes machine learning tools designed to predict user traffic and automatically scale its resources.

In February, the exchange launched Agentic Wallets enabling AI systems to hold funds, execute trades, and process onchain transactions independently.

These wallets align with Coinbase's x402 protocol under development for autonomous crypto payments without human intervention. The exchange has positioned itself as a leader in combining artificial intelligence with blockchain infrastructure. The move builds on last September's creation of x402 Bazaar, a stablecoin payments ecosystem for AI agents.

Armstrong noted that, “I suspect we will have more agents than human employees at some point soon.”

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