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At a glance
- What changed
- Morph, an AI inference platform, now takes USDC and USDT payments through Coinbase Business, on 6 networks with no gas fees and 500+ supported wallets.
- Who it affects
- Developers and businesses whose AI agents or apps buy model inference from Morph and want to pay in stablecoins on Base.
- When
- Announced by Coinbase Business and Base on 28 October 2026.
What Coinbase Business and Base announced
Coinbase Business, the company's crypto account for businesses, announced on its official X account on 28 October 2026 that it has partnered with Morph, a platform that sells AI inference (the computing work an AI model does each time it answers a request), to bring USDC and USDT payments to Morph. The launch card reads: pay for inference with stablecoins on Morph, powered by Coinbase Business.
Base quoted the announcement a few hours later with a one-line pitch aimed at developers: let your agents pay for inference with stablecoins on Base. In other words, an AI agent or the app behind it can settle its model bills in dollar stablecoins on Base instead of with a bank card.
Six networks, no gas fees, 500+ wallets
The post gives three headline numbers: payments work on 6 networks, carry no gas fees and support more than 500 wallets. Coinbase Business does not name the six networks, beyond Base pointing to itself, and it does not say whether Morph or Coinbase covers the network fees. It also does not publish a fee schedule for Morph customers.
The cheaper-than-cards claim
Coinbase Business argues that stablecoins suit inference because they are global, have no amount limits and no chargebacks, and it says they are up to 57% cheaper than cards. That figure is Coinbase's own claim, with no published method, and the real saving depends on how a business pays today.
Our take
This is the second story about agents paying on Base that we have covered this month, after Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines with x402 settlement. The pattern is the same: software paying for services in stablecoins, with Base as the settlement network. If you want to hold USDC on Base yourself, the Base app and Phantom both support it and are linked on this page.
Dates to know
As announced by the provider. A listed date does not confirm current availability or eligibility.
- Coinbase Business and Base announce stablecoin payments for Morph inferenceToday (UTC)
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