Coinbase - The Wire by FourthWeb - AI, RWA, & Web3 / Web4 Intelligence (Page 11)

Real World Assets Jun 10, 2026

Mastercard Just Built Payment Rails for AI That Don't Need Banks

The rails that move $9 trillion a year just opened to machines that don't sleep, don't have bank accounts, and settle in seconds.

Real World Assets Jun 10, 2026

Mastercard Built Payment Rails for AI Agents Using Crypto It Once Fought

The credit card company that fought crypto for a decade just became the plumbing for autonomous commerce. Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines, a payment network that lets AI agents transact using cards, bank accounts, and stablecoins, with Ripple and Coinbase as initial partners

AI Agent Economy Jun 3, 2026

JPMorgan's Dimon Tells Congress: Block Coinbase From Banking

The most powerful banker in America just declared war on the most powerful CEO in crypto, and the fight is over whether stablecoins get to live inside the banking system.

Real World Assets Jun 3, 2026

Coinbase Buys Crypto Like a Retail Trader in $22M Open Market Spree

Venture arms don't usually shop where you shop, which makes this the clearest signal yet that crypto infrastructure is ready for primetime distribution.

Real World Assets Jun 2, 2026

Coinbase Bets $50M on Stablecoin Rules That Don't Exist Yet

Coinbase just put its money where Washington's mouth is—buying into the ETF designed to meet Congress's stablecoin reserve requirements before the rules are even finalized.

Real World Assets Jun 2, 2026

Robinhood Pays $180M to Enter a Market Where Crypto Adoption Already Beats America

The biggest U.S. retail brokerage just bought its way into a market where crypto ownership rates already outpace America. Robinhood closed its $180 million acquisition of WonderFi, gaining immediate access to Canada's regulated crypto market through WonderFi's platforms Bitbuy and Coinsquare.

Real World Assets Jun 2, 2026

CME Group Launches 24/7 Bitcoin Trading to Compete With Coinbase

Wall Street just killed the weekend for crypto traders, and the real story isn't the 24/7 trading—it's what they're building on top of it.

Real World Assets Jun 1, 2026

Binance Bypasses Wall Street With Tokenized US Stocks for Global Users

The world's largest crypto exchange just built an on-ramp to 7,000 US equities for everyone outside America, then announced it's tokenizing the whole thing on-chain.

Real World Assets Jun 1, 2026

MicroStrategy Breaks 5-Year Bitcoin Streak, One Trader Nets $200,000

The world's most famous Bitcoin maximalist just paid a dividend in fiat, and one trader made $200,000 betting it would happen. Strategy sold 32 BTC for ~$2.5 million between May 26-31, breaking a four-year HODL streak and confirming what on-chain analysts spotted days earlier

Real World Assets Jun 1, 2026

Binance Just Turned 8,000 US Stocks Into Stablecoin Trades With Zero Fees

The world's largest crypto exchange just became a brokerage, and it's not charging commissions because it doesn't need to. Binance launched trading for over 7,000 US stocks and ETFs for non-US users with zero commission, positioning itself as a "multi-asset financial super app"

Real World Assets Jun 1, 2026

Coinbase Bets India's $3B Crypto Market Will Eclipse the West

The world's largest crypto exchange just bet that the real growth isn't in Miami or Singapore — it's in Mumbai. Coinbase launched Indian rupee (INR) trading rails, making the platform fully accessible to Indian retail traders for the first time

Real World Assets May 30, 2026

FalconX Races Coinbase and Robinhood for Crypto's Second IPO

The same crypto firms the SEC spent years trying to regulate into submission are now lining up to become its poster children. FalconX filed confidentially with the SEC for an IPO, hiring Cantor and other banks as advisors

Real World Assets May 30, 2026

MicroStrategy's $30M Bitcoin Transfer Triggers Panic. They're Actually Buying More.

The largest corporate Bitcoin holder just moved $30 million in BTC — and for once, the paranoid crypto Twitter detectives got it backwards. Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) withdrew 411.5 BTC worth $30.3 million FROM Coinbase Prime, not deposited it — the opposite of what early panic suggested

AI Agent Economy May 30, 2026

Wix Cuts 800 Jobs, Blames AI in Leaked Memo

The layoff memo template is now standardized: "AI + efficiency + flatter org structure = goodbye." Wix is cutting 20% of its workforce — roughly 1,000 roles from a 5,000-person company — citing AI evolution and the need to become "faster, leaner, and flatter."

Real World Assets May 30, 2026

JPMorgan's Dimon Calls Coinbase CEO 'Full of Shit' Over Crypto Law

The biggest bank in America just told crypto it's not ready for prime time, and the fight isn't about technology or innovation. It's about who gets to pay interest.