Armstrong explores cognitive enhancement therapies for adults, children, and embryos
Brian Armstrong · Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins & Tokenization with CEO Brian Armstrong · Sep 10, 2026 · at 36:53
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong discusses frontier biotechnology research ideas he is contemplating with Elad Gil on No Priors.
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“One idea I've been contemplating a little bit is around cognitive enhancement. And there, you know, there's been these things people have realized, like if you, I think in, in development of children, like if you give them enough folic acid and like certain nutrients like that in certain countries, it actually raises IQ. Like they just, they develop better. And it might be interesting. I might host a dinner on this at some point of just You know, what are the various ways someone could target therapies, whether in adults, children, embryos, whatever, to try to just level the playing field a little bit of the baseline sort of cognition and IQ that people are born with or could be born with.”
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