Coinbase MCP - Coinbase Developer Documentation

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Summary

Coinbase for Agents: remote MCP https://agents.coinbase.com/mcp via OAuth (DCR/CIMD, allowlisted clients) or local CLI with CDP API key; recommends isolated agent portfolio; crypto, equities, derivatives, x402 payments. Known issue: some hosted models preview but don’t place orders.

Short quotes

The remote MCP connects directly to https://agents.coinbase.com/mcp via OAuth.

Coinbase still approves clients through allowlisting, including DCR clients; DCR is not unrestricted self-service access.

On hosted chat clients, high-reasoning and extended-thinking modes sometimes draft an order but stop short of placing it.

spot crypto only, scoped to a specific portfolio selected when logging in or creating an API key.

Notes

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