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Armstrong: Coinbase Wins Approvals to Unify US and International Order Books
“And we've just finally gotten some approvals where we can now Get our international customers and our US customers on the same order book and liquidity is a network effect.”
Coinbase Is Launching Tokenized Equities to Democratize Stock Access
“One of the big ones is tokenized equities. That's something we've been working on for a long time. So just like you know, stable coins got the tokenized money, you know, dollars. And it got democratized access for everybody. We're now doing that with stocks fo…”
Coinbase Built Infrastructure for AI Agents to Hold Financial Accounts
“We built out a lot of infrastructure for AI agents to actually get their own financial accounts and connect them into your own, you know, your Coinbase account.”
Coinbase Launches Native AI Advisor for Trading and Tax-Loss Harvesting
“So we launched this thing, Coinbase Advisor, it's built right into the Coinbase app, and you can talk to it in plain English, and it can do research, but it can also conduct trades, do tax loss harvesting strategies, like, it can do financial literacy or educa…”
Armstrong: Coinbase deploys Base app globally, focuses custodial business on 10 markets
“The Base app, which is our self-custodial wallet, has an easier time spreading, like, you can launch that in hundreds of countries around the world, because if you're not taking possession of customer funds, it's not treated as a regulated financial service bu…”
Coinbase Plans to Offer Tokenized and Traditional Equities for Trading
“From a Coinbase point of view, we're like, great, if that's what people want to trade, guess what? We have pre-IPO perps, right? We're gonna, you can get exposure to these things before they go live, and then once they're live and trading we're gonna have toke…”
Coinbase is Implementing Recursive AI Workflows to Draft and Review Code
“One of the next big things we're reaching for to get in place is, is recursive self-improvement, right? So we're actually using our apps to collect feedback from customers. Whether that's bugs, bugs they're encountering or even new feature requests. And we're …”
Armstrong: Coinbase aims to be users' primary financial account
“So, yeah, we're really it's not just about trading, like, we're trying to be the primary financial account for someone's entire life.”
Armstrong: I test AI tools every few months to ship pull requests
“Well, I mean, I have started writing some code again using AI agents. I test out the tools every few months, make sure I can ship a few pull requests and like still get in the weeds.”
Armstrong: I spend 80% of media time on new media
“That's what I do with 80, 80% of my time. 20% of my time I still spend with traditional media because there are people who are over, over 50 or over 60, mostly on the east coast, who still read traditional media.”
Armstrong: Coinbase flattened its AI cost curve despite exponential token growth
“And what was really cool is we are now seeing our usage of AI tokens is still continuing to grow exponentially, but the cost curve has really started to flatten.”
Armstrong: Coinbase supports ACATS stock transfers from any brokerage
“So of course we support stock trading if they have shares and they want to move it over, like we have a really great feature now where people can transfer stocks into Coinbase. It uses something underneath called ACATS, which is just like the industry standard…”
Armstrong: Coinbase launched direct deposit paying 3.5% yield on cash
“Yeah, and then we also launched a direct deposit feature too, so when you're at a company getting your paycheck instead of depositing it into your checking account and earning zero, you might as well deposit it into Coinbase and earn 3.5% on cash, and then you…”