{"id":78695,"date":"2026-09-26T11:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/musks-grok-is-out-trading-chatgpt-40-to-1-among-coinbase-ai-agents\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T11:31:13","slug":"musks-grok-is-out-trading-chatgpt-40-to-1-among-coinbase-ai-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/musks-grok-is-out-trading-chatgpt-40-to-1-among-coinbase-ai-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk&#8217;s Grok Is Out-Trading ChatGPT 40 to 1 Among Coinbase AI Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"@container mb-[25px] rounded-sm overflow-clip py-0.5 pr-0.5 pl-2.5 bg-success-100\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-m overflow-clip rounded-[6px] !bg-success-10 p-3 @[420px]:p-m\">\n<h2 class=\"m-0 flex items-center gap-s text-[19px] !text-[#1c1c1c] md:text-[20px]\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 10\" fill=\"none\" class=\"shrink-0 text-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M1 1.5h14\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><path d=\"M1 8.5h10\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><\/svg><span>Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"m-0 flex list-none flex-col gap-m pl-0\">\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Coinbase data for Sept. 14-21 shows Grok at 59.5% of agent volume, with Claude at 13.4% and ChatGPT at 1.5%.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Coinbase for Agents launched June 11 and added U.S. stocks and ETFs the week of Sept. 22.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Grok Bot Creator Rewards pays bot builders every two weeks via X Money, with one creator paid $500.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The Scoreboard<\/h2>\n<p>Coinbase doesn\u2019t usually publish which chatbots its customers trade through, but this week it made a seeming exception. The exchange\u2019s developer account shared a chart titled \u201cWhere agentic traders come from,\u201d splitting <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CoinbaseDev\/status\/2103167254926143724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notional trading volume<\/a> by the large language model (LLM) client that sent each order between Sept. 14 and Sept. 21. The ranking was as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\">Grok: 59.54%<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\">Custom command-line interface (CLI) setups: 21.73%<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\">Claude: 13.37%<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\">Perplexity: 3.48%<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\">ChatGPT: 1.54%<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400\" aria-level=\"1\">Claude Code: 0.35%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brian_armstrong\/status\/2103504965763281185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed a one-line verdict<\/a>, stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Grok is the leading client for agentic traders on Coinbase currently.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Wait, Why Is ChatGPT So Low?<\/h2>\n<p>When Coinbase <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BitcoinNews\/status\/2065154883733299446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unveiled Coinbase for Agents<\/a> on June 11, ChatGPT and Claude were the launch partners. The product lets users authorize an AI assistant to trade spot crypto and derivatives, read market data and pay for services, all inside an isolated portfolio with spending caps and trade limits.<\/p>\n<p>Three months later, the launch partners together account for under 15% of agent volume, and the more popular consumer chatbot has less than a sixtieth. A few reasons plausibly explain the gap, though Coinbase didn\u2019t break them down.<\/p>\n<p>Grok lives inside X, where crypto traders already spend their day, so the step from reading a market thread to asking an agent to act on it is short. The chart also measures dollar volume rather than users, so a handful of large Grok-driven traders could have been tilting the pie chart.<\/p>\n<h2>Stocks Just Joined the Menu<\/h2>\n<p>This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/featured\/coinbase-adds-ipo-shares-to-its-expanding-everything-exchange\/\">Coinbase expanded agent trading<\/a> to U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), offering thousands of listed names, 24\/5 trading, fractional shares from $1 and zero commissions through Coinbase Capital Markets Corp. Setup takes as few as three clicks from Perplexity, Grok, ChatGPT or Claude.<\/p>\n<p>Agents pay their own way through x402, Coinbase\u2019s micropayment protocol, which has processed more than 230 million transactions, with over $54 million in volume. Even Blackrock has weighed in on that machine-payments race, arguing that bitcoin is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/stablecoins\/bitcoin-losing-ai-payments-battle-per-blackrock-but-not-the-war\/\">losing the battle<\/a> for AI payments without losing the war.<\/p>\n<p>The guardrails are the other side of it: given Coinbase lets users set asset permissions, spending limits and per-action approvals, the kind of spending caps and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/security\/ai-threat-web3-told-to-add-spending-caps-and-circuit-breakers-onchain\/\">circuit breakers<\/a> security researchers have been urging for autonomous software.<\/p>\n<h2>Musk Is Now Paying Bot Builders, Too<\/h2>\n<p>Lastly, Grok\u2019s lead arrived the same week X started paying people to build on it. Tesla investor Sawyer Merritt posted an email announcing <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SawyerMerritt\/status\/2103612173687861404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grok Bot Creator Rewards<\/a>, a pilot that pays creators every two weeks based on how many people use their bots and how often. His message said he had earned $500 in the first two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>To qualify, creators must post about their public bots on X at least twice per pay period and have X Money set up. Payouts currently run through X\u2019s Original Content Rewards. Separate details shared on X describe it as an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/XFreeze\/status\/2103627822556500036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">invite-only pilot<\/a> starting in the U.S., where usage and repeat usage count and likes and impressions don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/exchanges\/grok-coinbase-agentic-trading-chatgpt-share\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Key Takeaways Coinbase data for Sept. 14-21 shows Grok at 59.5% of agent volume, with Claude at 13.4% and ChatGPT at 1.5%. Coinbase for Agents launched June 11 and added U.S. stocks and ETFs the week of Sept. 22. 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