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Exchanges build wallets for customers who cannot open bank accounts

development2026-08-08

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Coinbase, Kraken and Circle are building wallets and stablecoin rails for agents, the first customers who cannot open a bank account, while Claude Code sessions gained the ability to message each other.

Reporting date: 2026-08-08 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to August 8, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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An appellate court rules a shopping agent is legally its user

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Exchanges build wallets for customers who cannot open bank accounts
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-08-08
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-08-agents-get-wallets-before-bank-accounts
Claim: Coinbase, Kraken and Circle are building wallets and stablecoin rails for agents, the first customers who cannot open a bank account, while Claude Code sessions gained the ability to message each other.
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- Welcome to August 8, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-8-2026
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