Coinbase
- Signing
- Keys held in TEE-isolated enclaves, agent never sees material
- Guardrails
- Session caps, per-call spend limits, x402-native settlement
- Chains
- Base, Ethereum, Solana
New entries as issuers ship · Reviewed against 62 monitored sources
The agentic wallet category, logged in one place.
Every launch, custody model, and guardrail in the market for wallets that let autonomous agents hold and spend money. Recorded as entries, dated, and compared against the custody documentation rather than the press release.
- 9
- wallet products tracked
- 4
- custody architectures compared
- 2026-02-11
- category-defining launch (Coinbase)
- 2026-08-06
- most recent entrant (MetaMask)
Section 01
The Ledger
0 entries · newest first · last checked not yet checked
DateIssuerEntryCustody modelStatus
Section 02
Custody Matrix
How the four architecture families differ once you read past the launch copy.
MetaMask
- Signing
- User-held keys, delegated signing scoped to the agent
- Guardrails
- 3-step security pipeline: simulate, policy check, confirm
- Chains
- Ethereum + EVM L2s
Cobo
- Signing
- Threshold MPC shares split across operator and Cobo
- Guardrails
- Pacts: scoped authorization objects with expiry and counterparty
- Chains
- 80+ networks
Human.tech
- Signing
- Two-party computation between user device and service
- Guardrails
- Proof-of-human binding, revocable agent sessions
- Chains
- EVM, Solana
Section 03
Guides
PRIMER
What actually makes a wallet ‘agentic’
Autonomy without custody is just an API key. The three properties that separate an agentic wallet from a scripted one.
8 min ·
COMPARISON
Session caps vs. Pacts vs. Transaction Protection
Three vendors, three guardrail models. Where each one fails, and what an operator is actually liable for.
11 min ·
RAILS
The x402 Foundation formed. The adoption numbers are still contested.
Visa, Mastercard, Amex and Stripe joined a neutral standards body for agent payments — while independent measurement questions what 100 million settlements actually represent.
9 min ·
RAILS
x402, A2A, and the rails underneath the wallets
Payment-native HTTP and agent-to-agent messaging are converging. A map of which issuer supports what.
9 min ·
INFRASTRUCTURE
The infrastructure tier: Turnkey and Crossmint productise agent money movement
Non-custodial agent wallets, policy engines, gas sponsorship and virtual cards — sold to builders who do not want to assemble a custody stack.
7 min ·
NETWORKS
Visa and Mastercard are building the authorization layer, not the wallet
Intelligent Commerce Connect, the OpenAI partnership and Agent Pay show the networks claiming the trust layer above whichever wallet an agent happens to hold.
8 min ·
ANALYSIS
Circle Agent Stack puts USDC custody under the agent
Agent wallets, spending controls, x402 discovery and nanopayments, shipped as one stack by the issuer of the settlement asset.
7 min ·
STANDARDS
AP2 leaves Google for the FIDO Alliance
The Agent Payments Protocol moves to a neutral standards body, and v0.2 lands. What mandates and verifiable intent mean for wallet authorization.
8 min ·