The billionaire who called the COVID crash is now watching AI's biggest names go public — and he's worried you're looking at the wrong things. Bill Ackman says public markets are overly fixated on blockbuster IPOs, signaling possible tunnel vision as AI companies prepare to go public
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Coinbase just turned every AI agent into a day trader with access to stocks, crypto, and derivatives — which means the real question isn't whether agents will trade, but which rails they'll run on when they do.
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The IRS hasn't figured out how to handle your DeFi yield farming, and now AI agents are about to generate thousands of taxable transactions per day while you sleep.
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The market makers are becoming the market. Raven closed a funding round at a $90 million pre-money valuation from CMCC Global and Coinbase Ventures to expand its prediction markets liquidity business
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The platform that democratized stock trading just handed retail investors the tools hedge funds used to gatekeep—perps, 24/7 markets, and AI agents that trade while you sleep.
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The country that bet its reputation on Bitcoin just launched a dollar app instead. El Salvador launched Sivar, a government-backed app for digital dollar transfers built on Coinbase's Base network, with $2 cross-border processing fees plus separate funding and withdrawal charges
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Traditional finance spent billions building clearing infrastructure over decades; Coinbase just got regulatory approval to do it natively in stablecoins.
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The bank that spent 2022 saying crypto was too risky is now letting Fortune 500s take stablecoin payments without ever seeing a wallet.
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Wall Street just decided stablecoins are safe enough for corporate treasury departments. Citi is partnering with Coinbase to let institutional clients accept stablecoin payments, building on their October 2025 deal that started with fiat on-ramps
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The org chart just became a game board, and the GM doesn't have a pulse. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is pushing for internal teams to compete like startups, with AI agents serving as referees to evaluate performance and allocate resources
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The SEC just went from crypto's principal's office to its lobby group, and Wall Street analysts are already hedging their bets. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce expects the CLARITY Act to pass this summer, while Chairman Paul Atkins outlined "Project Crypto" to make the U.S. the global crypto capital
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The exchange that spent years avoiding yield products just put its institutional weight behind synthetic dollar farming. Coinbase launched a High Yield Vault that lends USDC against Ethena's USDe-backed collateral, marking the first product in the Coinbase-Ethena partnership
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The exchange wars are over, and the infrastructure wars just started. Kraken's parent company Payward is investing billions to unify trading, payments, asset management, and institutional services on common rails, moving beyond its crypto exchange identity
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The man who controls the world's largest military budget is parking some of his personal wealth in the same place millions of retail investors store their crypto.
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Wall Street is moving onchain, and it's bringing actual money with it. Coinbase's tokenized US stocks on Base hit $22M in market cap, riding a wave of DeFi integration that's making traditional assets programmable
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The line between your brokerage account and your DeFi wallet just got thinner. Aave V4 on Base now accepts seven Coinbase-issued tokenized stocks as collateral for USDC loans, including Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla
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A 23-year-old drained 100 Coinbase accounts by pretending to be support staff, then blew $6 million of the loot at the casino—and somehow his own messages sealed the conviction.
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The SEC just blessed tokenized stocks, but Wall Street thinks nobody wants them. The SEC opened a five-year exemption path for tokenized equities, splitting the market between synthetic price trackers and direct share claims
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The quantum threat isn't theoretical anymore, and Coinbase isn't waiting for Bitcoin consensus to protect a quarter trillion in customer assets.
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Bitcoin just became collateral you can actually use without triggering a taxable event or timing the exit. Coinbase retail users can now borrow USDC against bitcoin at fixed rates, while Circle opened the same product to institutional clients through Circle Mint
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