Coinbase

Coinbase is a leading cryptocurrency exchange and wallet platform that enables users to buy, sell, and store various digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam, Coinbase has grown to become one of the largest cryptocurrency platforms in the world, serving over 35 million users across 100+ countries. Coinbase faces competition from other cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance, Kraken, and Gemini.

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Visa and Mastercard Are Moving Fast Into Stablecoins

By Yueqi Yang · Nov 21, 2025 6:00am PST
Visa and Mastercard are moving quickly to embrace cryptocurrencies for payments, to take advantage of the rising popularity of stablecoins in developing countries and fend off competition from merchants trying to circumvent their networks. The companies ramped up their crypto payments business overseas and have been looking for acquisitions or... Visa and Mastercard are moving quickly to embrace cryptocurrencies for payments, to take...
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Google Unseats Anthropic With Gemini 3

By · Nov 19, 2025 7:04am PST
Before we get to Gemini 3, we want to highlight this morning’s news that former Harvard University President Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board of directors following a congressional committee’s release of emails showing a personal correspondence between him and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers had been on the board of... Before we get to Gemini 3, we want to highlight this morning’s news that former Harvard...
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Gemini 3 Arrives; Open-Source Coding Agent Raises $19 Million

By · Nov 18, 2025 8:00am PST
Before we get to today’s news about Gemini, we should mention that this morning, Microsoft and Nvidia announced that they’re investing in Anthropic, who will be spending at least $30 billion over an unspecified amount of time to rent servers from Microsoft’s Azure cloud equipped with Nvidia chips.... Before we get to today’s news about Gemini, we should mention that this morning, ...
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Coinbase to Launch Prediction Market Powered by Kalshi

By Yueqi Yang · Nov 19, 2025 11:48am PST
Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market to allow its crypto clients to bet on events such as elections and sports, according to two people familiar with the matter. The market will be powered by prediction market company Kalshi and will put Coinbase in a booming but increasingly crowded field. Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto... Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market to allow its crypto clients to bet on events...
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Coinbase Enters a New Crypto Era With Perks—and Risks

By Yueqi Yang · Mar 5, 2025 6:00am PST
On the Friday before Donald Trump’s inauguration as president in January, Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, joined his top executives in Washington at the Crypto Ball, where the tech elite celebrated the imminent arrival of the country’s first crypto-friendly president. Soon, though, there was an interruption in the revelry for Paul Grewal,... On the Friday before Donald Trump’s inauguration as president in January, Brian Armstrong, CEO of...
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Pro Weekly: Trump Bump Fades for Tesla, Coinbase

By · Feb 28, 2025 8:00am PST
Our latest subscriber survey showed that readers continue to be plenty optimistic about the outlook for the technology sector overall. But when it comes to individual big tech companies, sentiment mostly soured in February, suggesting that developments like government spending cuts and sinking crypto prices are complicating that broadly rosy... Our latest subscriber survey showed that readers continue to be plenty optimistic about the...