Lincoln Murr: Head of AI Product, Coinbase

About Lincoln Murr

Lincoln Murr is head of AI product at Coinbase, the crypto exchange that is expanding into other assets and payments. Murr works on how Coinbase builds products for AI agents and makes its existing business accessible to them.

In an AI Engineer fireside chat with Mintlify CTO Hahnbee Lee, Murr explains Coinbase's API-first strategy for agents and early traction for x402.

Career Highlights

Head of AI product at Coinbase
Speaker at AI Engineer (2026) on agents as the primary users of the internet

Notable Positions

On APIs as a Defensive Hedge

AI agents and stablecoins are arriving together, like smartphones and 4G LTE, which opens new products and a risk of disintermediation. Coinbase's response is to expose everything a human can do in the app through APIs with guardrails, the way banking moved to mobile.

On x402 and Microtransactions

x402, Coinbase's internet-native payment standard, now sits in a separate foundation. Murr sees crypto's role in letting agents pay fractions of a cent per API call or paywalled page, and reports around 100 million on-chain agentic transactions in the past year. See Agentic Commerce.

On API, MCP and CLI

The API is always the foundation. MCP adds natural-language context and a CLI adds a terminal requirement, and companies need all three.

Key Quotes

"Around 100 million agentic transactions, actually, all happening on-chain." (on x402 traction)

Agentic Commerce - Agents as buyers
Hahnbee Lee - Mintlify CTO, on docs for agent readers

Lincoln Murr