PANews reported on April 20th that Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform that Coinbase is testing AI agents that appear in work Slack and emails like human teammates. The first two agents are modeled after former Coinbase employees Fred Ehrsam and Balaji Srinivasan. Armstrong stated that soon any employee will be able to easily create new agents for themselves or their team, and he expects the number of agents to soon exceed the number of human employees. He further pointed out that these agent employees should have their own names, rather than being "digital twins" of others.