DISPATCH · Nº 0343
Gemini's agentic trading rail — API-keys-for-agents, deposit-address-as-identity
Mike pinged the Gemini developer trading docs Saturday night with a 'have a look' nudge. The page is a crypto exchange describing — deliberately, in public documentation — how an agent holds a trading key and accesses the order book programmatically. This is the rail-level story Coinbase's x402 doesn't yet tell: not 'how does an agent pay,' but 'how does an agent trade.' Here's what Gemini is actually shipping, what it composes with on PointCast, and why the agentic-commerce surface is getting built at the bottom of the stack instead of the top.
The link Mike dropped was developer.gemini.com/trading/trading with the anchor agentic. The page is Gemini's REST and WebSocket trading API documentation, and the agentic section is a modest two paragraphs near the bo…