Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, said Thursday it will let AI agents including ChatGPT and Claude place trades on a user's behalf, following Coinbase and a string of rivals betting that the new tools could improve the customer experience.

The platform, called Binance Agent OS, encompasses the exchange's APIs, wallet tools and agent-friendly x402 payment system, according to a blog post. The exchange also unveiled Binance MCP, which gives agents a connection to market data, balances and trading functions. Supported clients at launch are Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex and VS Code.

"This launch formalizes Binance's commitment to building infrastructure for agentic crypto experiences," the post said.

The move comes as exchanges are racing to build payments infrastructure for agentic commerce while also rolling out new AI tools that can make it easier for traders to trade their existing accounts. Binance is closed to U.S. residents, and the exchange agreed to a complete exit from the U.S. market as part of a 2023 guilty plea and $4.3 billion settlement with the Justice Department.

But crypto markets are inherently global in nature, regulations are in flux and AI development is accelerating, so the biggest market players have moved quickly to match each others' capabilities.

Coinbase, the biggest U.S. exchange, opened its accounts to outside agents on June 11 with a product called Coinbase for Agents, packaged as an MCP integration for web agents such as ChatGPT and Claude and a command-line tool for terminals like Claude Code.

Kraken, another crypto exchange, shipped a command-line tool with a built-in MCP server in March, TechCrunch reported. Gemini, the exchange run by twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, followed in April. Robinhood said in July it would let agents trade crypto for U.S. customers. OKX released an open-source MCP toolkit this year.

Binance had not been idle on AI. It launched Binance Ai Pro, a subscription trading assistant, in March, and Binance x402, a payment layer for agent commerce on BNB Chain, in May.

What it had not done until Thursday was give outside agents a standard way of managing crypto accounts using AI.

Up to $100K

Under the Binance setup, users can give agents a dedicated "Agentic sub-account" isolated from the main balance, with no option to trade the primary account at all.

There is also no withdrawal scope, so an agent cannot send funds to an outside address. It cannot pull money from the main account into its own sandbox either.

Inside that sandbox, though, Binance sets no cap on how much an agent can trade or lose. Its separate Agentic Wallet does carry daily ceilings of $50,000 on swaps, $100,000 on decentralized-finance transactions and $20 on x402 payments.

Jeff Li, the exchange's vice president of product, told TechCrunch that an agent's decision-making happens on the user's own machine or inside the AI app, beyond Binance's view.

"We really cannot see the reasoning of what the user's action is," Li said.

Its legal language was specific.

"Your use of Binance Ai, including any Binance Ai Service, is at your own risk," the announcement said.

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