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Coinbase

Coinbase is an American cryptocurrency exchange. Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam founded it in 2012. It operates in more than 100 countries.

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Chair and chief executive officer

Brian Armstrong

Leadership

Brian Armstrong, Chair and chief executive officer. Brian Armstrong is an American businessman and investor. He is the CEO of Coinbase, a cryptocurrency platform he co-founded with Fred Ehrsam in 2012.

Key facts

Founded: June 2012, in San Francisco, Californiasource
Revenue (2025): US$7.18 billionsource
Total assets (2025): US$29.7 billionsource
Employees (2024): 3,772source
Headquarters: Remote-first, with no physical headquarters (as of 2025)source

WYDE coverage of Coinbase

WYDE Newsroom has published 34 articles about Coinbase, from Dec 19, 2025 to Nov 4, 2026. Coinbase is the subject of 29 stories, an investor in 2 stories and a donor in 1 story. The most recent is CFTC Clears Equity Perpetual Futures: Kalshi Filed for Up to 58 Contracts, and a Cboe-Backed Group Sues.

Crypto & DeFi

CFTC Clears Equity Perpetual Futures: Kalshi Filed for Up to 58 Contracts, and a Cboe-Backed Group Sues

CFTC Chairman Mike Selig said on Nov. 3 that perpetual futures on individual stocks can trade on U.S. exchanges registered with both the CFTC and the SEC. A group whose members include Cboe and Citadel Securities sued the same day.

Nov 4, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Coinbase Ireland Fined €3.25 Million Over Customer Fund Safeguarding Failures

The Central Bank of Ireland fined Coinbase Ireland Limited €3,252,618 for safeguarding and outsourcing breaches, and the High Court must confirm the sanction before it takes effect.

Oct 24, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Stablecoins Moved Over $400 Million an Hour on Average in Q3, Coinbase Report Says

A report conducted by The Block for Coinbase says stablecoins moved an average of over $400 million an hour in organic transfer activity in Q3 2026, and 73% of screened transfer volume occurred outside U.S. banking hours over the 12 months ended July 31, 2026.

Oct 24, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

$1 Million Clipping Fund for Creators Who End Hunger

WYDE Weekly: a new $1 million clipping fund pays creators to end hunger, plus Ken Griffin's record $3 billion gift, three record health-system donations, and the regulators chasing crypto.

Oct 3, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Coinbase Wins CFTC Clearinghouse Approval, Completing Its Derivatives Stack

The CFTC registered Coinbase Clearing as a derivatives clearing organization on September 28, 2026, letting the exchange clear its own fully collateralized futures, options, and swaps on a USDC-native clearinghouse.

Sep 29, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Citi and Coinbase Expand Their Deal to Let Businesses Accept Stablecoin Payments

Citi and Coinbase expanded their partnership so corporate and institutional clients can accept stablecoin payments with automatic fiat settlement through Coinbase Virtual Accounts and Spring by Citi.

Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

States Just Took On SNAP's Bill, Fraud Topped $900 Million in a Week, and Philanthropy Wrote $1.2 Billion in Checks. Over 71,800 Meals.

WYDE Weekly: the SNAP cost shift hits states October 1, Fast Lab's $500 million COVID fraud plea, Bitget's $387.5 million hack, the Fed's first stablecoin rules, and Phil and Penny Knight's $1 billion gift to Oregon.

Sep 26, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Aave Lets Users Borrow Against Tokenized Stocks on Base for the First Time

Aave V4's new Equities Hub on Base lets users borrow USDC against Coinbase-issued tokenized shares of Apple, Nvidia, Tesla and four other stocks priced by Chainlink.

Sep 25, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Coinbase Adds Fixed-Rate Bitcoin-Backed Loans Through Morpho Midnight

Coinbase users can now borrow USDC against bitcoin with the rate and due date set upfront, adding fixed-rate onchain loans to a lending book with more than $1.4 billion outstanding.

Sep 23, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Crypto's Fairshake Commits $30 Million to Defeat Sherrod Brown in Ohio

The crypto super PAC Fairshake has committed $30 million against Sherrod Brown's Ohio Senate comeback, its biggest single-candidate spend of the 2026 midterms, with more than $90 million still on hand.

Sep 22, 2026 · 2 min read · Donor

Crypto & DeFi

The CFTC Is Investigating Polymarket After a $10 Million Fraud Attempt and a Growth-Over-Compliance Push

A Wall Street Journal investigation says Polymarket's payment processor flagged more than 80 percent of US deposits as fraudulent while the prediction market chased a $21 billion valuation.

Sep 22, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

The Creator Economy Crossed $1 Billion, the CLARITY Act Died in the Senate, and Everyday Money Kept Ending Hunger. Over 70,600 Meals.

MrBeast's next video cost $10 million and the top creators crossed $1 billion, the CLARITY Act failed 49 to 50, tokenized Treasuries opened to 35 million accounts, and creators and restaurants can now get paid to end hunger with the EAT Card.

Sep 19, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Coinbase Files With the CFTC to Bring Single-Stock Perpetual Futures to US Traders

Coinbase Derivatives asked the CFTC on Friday to list 24/5 perpetual futures on 50 to 60 US stocks, including Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Tesla, letting traders take leveraged positions without owning the shares.

Sep 19, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Coinbase and Moov Will Put Stablecoin Payments Inside More Than 1,000 Community Banks and Credit Unions

The partnership embeds Coinbase's stablecoin rails into Moov's platform, letting small banks accept, settle, and fund payments without building crypto systems of their own.

Sep 12, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Coinbase's AI News Alert Called a World Cup Result Before Kickoff

Coinbase sent users an AI-generated breaking news alert saying Norway beat Brazil 3-2 nearly six hours before the match started, and the company says it has made updates to prevent a repeat.

Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE

WYDE's Aaron Rafferty Tells Benzinga How to Vet Tokenized Stocks

A Benzinga feature published Monday walks through the exchanges selling tokenized stocks and the backed-versus-mirror distinction Rafferty says decides whether you own anything at all, weeks after $1 billion in tokenized SpaceX orders collapsed.

Sep 11, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

Legal

New York Sues Kalshi and Says Its Prediction Markets Are Illegal Gambling

Governor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James filed suit against KalshiEX on July 31, asking a state court to shut the platform down, force it to forfeit its gains, and pay fines equal to three times what it made in New York.

Aug 2, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

Global hunger fell to 645 million, lawmakers introduced an AI kill switch, and a judge approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement. Over 60,000 meals.

WYDE Weekly: the UN's third straight drop in global hunger to 645 million, the AI Kill Switch and FRONTIER oversight bills, a judge's approval of Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement, a record 55,362 schools serving free meals, and a GAO finding of up to $521 billion in yearly federal fraud.

Jul 25, 2026 · 7 min read · Investor

Crypto & DeFi

The SEC Pays $150,000 to End a Records Lawsuit Over Gensler's Deleted Texts

A joint status report ends the two-year Coinbase FOIA fight over the SEC's missing Ethereum records, after the agency deleted former Chair Gary Gensler's text messages and wiped 21 official phones.

Jul 24, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Capital Tokenizes a Private Markets Fund as Coinbase Invests

Mubadala Capital, the $430 billion asset manager, brought a private markets fund onchain across Base, Solana and Sui using KAIO, and Coinbase took balance-sheet exposure to the tokenized fund.

Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read · Investor

Crypto & DeFi

Visa, Mastercard and Ripple Back x402, the Stablecoin Standard for AI Agent Payments

The Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation with 40 members, formalizing governance of the protocol that lets software pay software in stablecoins. It moved about 24 million dollars across 75 million payments last month.

Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Europe's MiCA Deadline Arrives, Forcing Unlicensed Crypto Firms to Wind Down

The EU's July 1 MiCA deadline ended the transitional regime across all 27 member states, and industry executives estimate up to 80 percent of Europe's roughly 3,000 pre-MiCA crypto firms may not continue.

Jul 1, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

Big Tech moved $1.5B into giving. A judge saved SNAP. Roubini went onchain. 58,300 meals.

WYDE Weekly: Intercept's $500M fund, Evan Spiegel's $550M medical-debt erase, the US $800M WFP pledge, Project Pangea, and the EAT Card beta.

Jun 27, 2026 · 6 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Coinbase's Base Sets June 25 Beryl Upgrade and Native B20 Token Standard

Base, Coinbase's Ethereum Layer-2, will activate its Beryl mainnet upgrade June 25, introducing the B20 native token standard, cheaper transfers, and faster withdrawals.

Jun 23, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

We signed Feed the Children. The White House debunked the banks. Iran priced Hormuz in Bitcoin. 20,000 meals.

$EAT hit #1 on Base at +150%. Three states signed the DUNA Act. Schwab opened crypto to 38.9 million accounts. The FDIC is implementing stablecoin rules Monday. Here's the full week.

Apr 13, 2026 · 7 min read · Quoted or named as leader

Crypto & DeFi

Treasury Secretary and SEC Chair Publicly Push CLARITY Act to Trump's Desk as Senate Markup Deadline Nears

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and SEC Chair Paul Atkins pushed the CLARITY Act to Trump's desk this week as the Senate Banking markup deadline nears.

Apr 13, 2026 · 3 min read · Critic

WYDE Weekly

$EAT just hit #1 on Base. Three states legalized DAOs. The FDIC is implementing stablecoin rules Monday.

$EAT hit #1 on Base at +150%. Three states signed the DUNA Act. Schwab opened crypto to 38.9 million accounts. The FDIC is implementing stablecoin rules Monday. Here's the full week.

Apr 4, 2026 · 8 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Coinbase Receives Conditional OCC Trust Charter as Banking Lobby Pushes Back

Coinbase received conditional OCC approval for a national trust company charter. CLO Paul Grewal fired back at banking lobby criticism within hours.

Apr 3, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly

The SEC just cleared crypto. TSA agents are visiting food banks. We just hit 10,000 meals.

SEC classifies crypto, SNAP cuts project 70K deaths, TSA food banks, $EAT ATH, Tempo blockchain launch, Mastercard BVNK acquisition.

Mar 23, 2026 · 7 min read · Subject of the story

Crypto & DeFi

Sam Altman's World and Coinbase Launch Identity Layer for AI Agent Commerce

Sam Altman's World launches AgentKit with Coinbase x402, enabling verified human-backed AI agents to transact autonomously using stablecoin micropayments.

Mar 23, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story

WYDE Weekly