It's official. Starting today, Indians can directly deposit and withdraw ₹ from Coinbase using IMPS.
No P2P. No intermediary. Bank → Crypto. That simple.
Here's the full story in under 2 minutes:
This isn't just a product launch. It's a signal.
Global regulated exchanges are betting on India's crypto future, despite the 30% tax, despite the TDS, despite years of regulatory fog.
For Indian builders, traders, and developers: this is your moment to be seen globally.
idk who should hear this but core CS is not optional if you want to be a great software engineer.
OOPs, OS, DBMS, CN, Cryptography, Software Engineering - these subjects quietly become useful everywhere.
everything compounds over time... the frameworks, tools and AI assistants will change, but these fundamentals stay.
regardless of the grade you get in university, make sure you actually understand the concepts
What happens when you put elite traders in a luxury villa…
and turn trading into a live competition? 📈🏝️
Would you watch it…
or would you want to be inside the house?
Something different is coming. 👀
Numbers that broke the internet at I/O 2026 👇
📊 2 years ago: 9.7 trillion tokens/month on Gemini
📊 Last year: 480 trillion
📊 This year: 3.2 QUADRILLION
That's 7x growth in one year. Real people. Real problems. Real scale.
And Gemini 3.5 Flash , released at I/O , is now 4x faster than competing frontier models, at half the price.
The question isn't whether to build with AI anymore.
The question is: what are you building?
Drop your current project below 👇
Claude Opus 4.8 just dropped. (May 28, 2026)
Improvements over 4.7:
🧠 Better reasoning
🤖 Stronger agentic task execution
💻 Upgraded coding skills
📋 Sharper on real-world knowledge work
Anthropic is shipping fast. Really fast.
And their Claude Code tool now has a real-time security plugin that auto-flags 25+ vulnerability classes as you write code.
This is what "moving fast AND not breaking things" actually looks like in 2026.
As a Team1 Ambassador, I’m excited to share that Team1 applications are officially open 🌎
Team1 is a global network of builders, developers, creatives & community leaders growing Avalanche from the ground up.
✨ 450+ members across 40 countries
✨ 600+ events & 75K+ Luma subscribers
✨ 130+ university collaborations
✨ Grants, bounties, jobs & builder support
Whether you’re a developer, designer, founder, marketer, BD, content creator, student, or community lead — this is your chance to contribute directly to the blockchain ecosystem, grow your career, and build alongside amazing people globally.
If you’ve got ideas to grow the ecosystem, Team1 is ready to support and fund them 🚀
Applications below 👇
Deden made it rain pizza's 🍕 ft. @Pizza_DAO
From Lucknow → Kanpur → Mangalore, 3 cities turned into one giant community table.
Proof that the best ecosystems aren’t built in group chats they’re built around tables.
Slices were served. Connections were made...
@Google just rebuilt the search box for the first time in 25 years.
not a UI tweak. a full AI reinvention.
what dropped at I/O 2026:
→ Gemini 3.5 Flash as default in Search globally
→ new box takes text, images, files, videos + Chrome tabs as input
→ AI agents running 24/7 in the background monitoring whatever YOU care about
→ Search can call businesses on your behalf
→ custom mini-apps coded live by Search on the fly, fitness trackers, move planners, anything
Search queries hit an all-time high last quarter.
turns out when AI makes search actually useful, people search MORE.
the "search is dead" narrative just died again.
This is an email I sent earlier today to all employees at Coinbase:
Team,
Today I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%. I want to walk you through why we're doing this now, what it means for those affected, and how this positions us for the future.
Why now
Two forces are converging at the same time. We need to be front footed to respond to both.
First, the market. Coinbase is well-capitalized, has diversified revenue streams, and is well-positioned to weather any storm. Crypto is also on the verge of the next wave of adoption, with stablecoins, prediction markets, tokenization, and more taking off. However, our business is still volatile from quarter to quarter. While we've managed through that cyclicality many times before and come out stronger on the other side, we’re currently in a down market and need to adjust our cost structure now so that we emerge from this period leaner, faster, and more efficient for our next phase of growth.
Second, AI is changing how we work. Over the past year, I’ve watched engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks. Non-technical teams are now shipping production code and many of our workflows are being automated. The pace of what's possible with a small, focused team has changed dramatically, and it's accelerating every day.
All of this has led us to an inflection point, not just for Coinbase, but for every company. The biggest risk now is not taking action. We are adjusting early and deliberately to rebuild Coinbase to be lean, fast, and AI-native. We need to return to the speed and focus of our startup founding, with AI at our core.
What this means
To get there, we are not just reducing headcount and cutting costs, we’re fundamentally changing how we operate: rebuilding Coinbase as an intelligence, with humans around the edge aligning it. What does this mean in practice?
- Fewer layers, faster decisions: We are flattening our org structure to 5 layers max below CEO/COO. Layers slow things down and create coordination tax. The future is small, high context teams that can move quickly. Leaders will own much more, with as many as 15+ direct reports. Fewer layers also means a leaner cost structure that is built to perform through all market cycles.
- No pure managers: Every leader at Coinbase must also be a strong and active individual contributor. Managers should be like player-coaches, getting their hands dirty alongside their teams.
- AI-native pods: We’ll be concentrating around AI-native talent who can manage fleets of agents to drive outsized impact. We’ll also be experimenting with reduced pod sizes, including “one person teams” with engineers, designers, and product managers all in one role.
In short: AI is bringing a profound shift in how companies operate, and we’re reshaping Coinbase to lead in this new era. This is a new way of working, and we need to leverage AI across every facet of our jobs.
To those who are affected
I know there are real people behind these decisions — talented colleagues who have poured themselves into this company and our mission. To those of you who will be leaving: thank you. You’ve helped build Coinbase into what it is today, and I am sincerely grateful for everything you've done.
All impacted team members will receive an email to their personal account in the next hour with more information, and an invitation to meet with an HRBP and a senior leader in your organization. Coinbase system access has been removed today. I know this feels sudden and harsh, but it is the only responsible choice given our duty to protect customer information.
To those affected, we will be providing a comprehensive package to support you through this transition. US employees will receive a minimum of 16 weeks base pay (plus 2 weeks per year worked), their next equity vest, and 6 months of COBRA. Employees on a work visa will get extra transition support. Those outside of the US will receive similar support, based on local factors and subject to any consultation requirements.
Coinbase prides itself on talent density. Our employees are among the most talented people in the world, and I have no doubt that your skills and experience will be highly sought after as you pursue your next chapters.
How we move forward
To the team that is staying, I know this is a difficult day. We’re saying goodbye to colleagues and friends you've been in the trenches with. But here’s what I want you to know as we move forward together:
Over the past 13 years, we have weathered four crypto winters, gone public, and built the most trusted platform in our industry. We’ve made it this far by making hard decisions and by always staying focused on our mission. This time will be no different – nothing has changed about the long term outlook of our company or industry. And most importantly, our mission has never been more important for the world. Increasing economic freedom requires a new financial system, and we’re building it.
The Coinbase that emerges from this will be more capable than ever to achieve our mission.
Brian