Brian Armstrong

Co-founder & CEO at @Coinbase. Creating more economic freedom in the world. ENS: barmstrong.eth Co-founder @researchhub @newlimit

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Going live now to share all of our new product announcements from the first half of 2026. Tune in!

https://t.co/YpiCfzwyIo

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Should SpaceX build a von Neumann probe (self replicating spacecraft)?

Potentially fastest path to explore the galaxy but without humans. It extends the light of consciousness, just not human consciousness.

[Jon Ma @jonbma]

Coinbase is the winner of AI native finance and they just launched:

- Tokenized stocks
- Thematic indices
- Prediction markets
- Combos in Predictions
- PreIPO stocks
- AI powered investment advisor

Absolutely incredible.

@coinbase is so back as the everything exchange for investors.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Thank you for joining!

[CBduck @CoinbaseDuck]

Excited to finally meet the @Coinbase executive team, @AlexOnchain, @davidtsocy, @yugacohler, the full @avantisfi crew, @wagmiAlexander from aerodrome, @jonbma, @GBalliett, and @Joey_Isaacson from Nook and many others IRL — first time since I went deep into the crypto realm years ago.

But the real highlight? Today’s Coinbase products announcements.

Tokenized stock - on @base with B20 standard, this is the real 1:1 backed equity, fully regulatory compliant.

Pre-IPO perps: now imagine small company does capital raise on @coinbase, scale up on @base, to be traded on Coinbase as pre-IPO peeps, get publicly listed and then launch a tokenized version of equity on base, and to be included in their thematic ETF. The whole damn package!!

Expanded Trading:
1. Stock options - Watch out Robinhood, Coinbase is coming for your bread and butter.
2. Thematic etf in Perpetual-style equity indices. Call this like a custom etf perp.
3. Crypto derivatives returning to the U.S. Coinbase being most trusted exchange will get much volume back from offshore exchanges. Huge revenue drivers for Coinbase.
4. Coinbase stock trading is getting advanced mode. Yay!
5. One unified global liquidity pool.
6. Expansion of dex trading such as Coinbase new Launches: Instant access to new tokens onchain.

Coinbase Payments: Full-stack Coinbase Payments solution for businesses (custody, compliance, fiat rails, agentic commerce and etc.)

Coinbase Mortgage partnership with better. Don’t sell your coins for down payment, you can access the liquidity from Coinbase.

AI & Agents:
1.Coinbase Adviso, free for #CoinbaseOne members, SEC-regulated AI investment advisor built into the app.
2.Coinbase for Agents

Prediction Markets: better UX and redesigned experience + combo bets. Combo bets sounds interesting, I could see some hedging and leveraging strategy being deployed here in prediction market.

I’m sure I have missed some, but trust me - you are not bullish enough on @coinbase $COIN

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Yep

[Crypto Council for Innovation @crypto_council]

Illinois Governor Pritzker just signed the most punitive digital asset tax in the country into law.

This will create an unprecedented tax regime that disproportionately burdens Illinois residents for simply using digital assets and will drive innovation and builders out of the state.

Read CCI’s opposition letter for more.

[yuga.eth 🛡 @yugacohler]

I encourage you to check out the @coinbase X account. We just announced literally dozens of launches that will enable you to take control of your financial future through increased access to financial markets, stablecoins, and agentic commerce.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Private transactions here on @Base

[Base @base]

Enterprise-grade private transactions are live on Base

Introducing Base Privacy: a native and compliant infrastructure for enterprises

Financial institutions can trade, pay, and settle with confidentiality on crypto rails

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Banking on your phone used to sound crazy, and now everyone does it. Using AI agents to manage your financial life will follow a similar path.

Your agents can now connect to your Coinbase account. Trade, pay for services, and operate autonomously (within spending limits and guardrails that you set).

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

AI Agents can now use Coinbase.

Marking the start of a new era for agentic finance.

Agents now have the ultimate platform to trade, manage portfolios and execute strategies.

Simply plug in your agent using Claude or ChatGPT, set guardrails, and let it run.

Coinbase for Agents - available now.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

We registered the AI agent itself with the SEC as an investment advisor.

It has your complete context on your portfolio and account history. Speak to it in plain English to take action on your account. It will even prompt you with ideas you hadn’t thought of.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Introducing Coinbase Advisor.

One of the first SEC-registered AI-powered investment advisors in the world.

High-quality advice - specific to you - is now one chat away. Real-time portfolio analysis, automated tax loss harvesting, and more.

Rolling out to Coinbase One members.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Access the most liquid crypto options in the U.S. soon, powered by Deribit.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Crypto options are coming to Coinbase later this year.

Giving U.S. users access to the full suite of derivatives.

With our Deribit integration, you’ll be able to access some of the most liquid crypto options in the world.

Alongside deep liquidity for spot and perpetuals.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Get exposure to private companies before they go public with pre-IPO perps on Coinbase!

We started with SpaceX, and we’ll be adding Anthropic + Open AI next.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Pre-IPO perps on Coinbase open up access to get exposure to early price discovery on top companies.

SpaceX was the first.

Anthropic and OpenAI are up next.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Stock options are coming to U.S. users on Coinbase!

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Stock options are coming to Coinbase this summer.

Built for defined risk, smarter hedging, and precise control over your exposure.

The complete toolkit for your crypto and stock portfolios, all on Coinbase.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

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[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

And this is only the first of our announcements today

See you at 3pm!

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

The first real, 1:1 backed tokenized stocks are coming.

→ Own actual tokenized shares of U.S. companies
→ Trade, hold, and redeem - all onchain
→ Automatically receive dividends

No derivatives, no IOUs.

Welcome to the future of stocks.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

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[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Getting ready for our event today. It’s time to take control.

#SystemUpdate

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

For the first time, these are real 1:1 backed tokenized stocks you can trust. You own an actual chunk of the company onchain.

Other current solutions are some form of derivative or IOU - not real ownership.

Our product will give all the benefits of true ownership, with all the benefits of tokenized assets. This is a great step towards unlocking global access to U.S. markets

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

The first real, 1:1 backed tokenized stocks are coming.

→ Own actual tokenized shares of U.S. companies
→ Trade, hold, and redeem - all onchain
→ Automatically receive dividends

No derivatives, no IOUs.

Welcome to the future of stocks.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

.@nikitabier thoughts?

[yuga.eth 🛡 @yugacohler]

X returns a 402 Payment Required HTTP code when an AI agent tries to fetch a tweet.

x402 was built exactly for this:
- Enables agentic endpoints with API keys
- Seamless, permisionless monetization
- The protocol is already named after you (@X + 402)!

[lincoln.base.eth @MurrLincoln]

this is now live btw, we ship fast

sign-in-with-coinbase across web-based chat interfaces like chatgpt and claude

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

I think it’s time to revisit the accredited investor laws in the US.

Companies are staying private longer, where only accredited investors (aka rich people!) can invest. Retail investors can only come in after IPO, when much of the upside has already been captured.

These rules were created with the best of intentions, to protect regular people from scams - a noble idea. Unfortunately, in practice they've often made it illegal to get richer, unless you're already rich. A regressive tax!

We have to judge policies based on their outcomes, not on their intentions.

These are two possible routes I see:

1) Replace the rule with something merit-based, like a financial literacy test. Pass it and you're accredited. Having a qualification based on competency rather than your bank balance or income seems far more fair.

2) Remove the rule entirely. Let consenting adults assess their own risk. Disclosure requirements stay and fraud enforcement stays to punish bad actors.