I’m a @coinbase maxi. 🎖️(Ripple) 🎖️(Torres Doctrine) 🎖️(arbitrary, capricious and malicious) 🎖️(Salt Lake UT SEC liquidaton) 🎖️(Bye Gensler)
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Mar 19
Been a Coinbase maxi, and here’s my 8-year journey showing why nothing else comes close:
Today most of my financial transactions are done within @coinbase ecosystem.
Since forever, Coinbase is the only platform where I feel safe to leave my crypto on the exchange.
Since 8 years ago, Coinbase was the only platform I buy/sell crypto from.
Since 6 years ago, Coinbase was the only on and off ramp I use to get onto @ethereum mainnet for defi and trading erc20 altcoin not listed on CEX.
Since 4 years ago, I store most of my $USDC on coinbase so I don’t have to worry about depositing into short term treasury.
Since 2 years ago, Coinbase incubated base, and most of my onchain activity since then was on base.
Since 1 year ago, Coinbase launched @Morpho vault. This is when I moved my $USDC from wallet to coinbase so that can use onchain lending and borrowing within coinbase app.
Since last year, Coinbase derivatives became my only perp platforms to trade and hedge against market volatility.
Since 6 months ago, all my daily living expenses are now on Coinbase Amex card earning 4% on $BTC reward while my free cash is getting the best yield available and now at 3.5% just for parking your cash there.
Since last month, I have been slowly moving my stocks from robinhood/fidelity to @coinbase where I have now 200k stock position on Coinbase and growing significantly on each red day like today. I have also participated on prediction market and find it sometimes even more reward than trading altcoins. Knowledge pays!
Really proud of what the team build and continue to thrive and iterate!
There is no 2nd best, last but not the least- Keep “chadding”, TYBG💙
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True: "Transformational products deliver tangible value at 1000x the rate of charities whose value cannot be tested in the market place."
Sadly, many (most?) charities don't just create little value. They often do net harm by getting captured by political agendas, bureaucracy, or bad incentives.
Wealthy people often do philanthropy for tax optimization more than results. A neutral-to-slightly-positive charity can still beat giving that money to the government (depending on local waste/fraud levels), but it's a low bar.
If you actually love humanity and want to help people: practice capitalism first. Build products people voluntarily pay for and use. Taxes and philanthropy are distant seconds.
Jun 13
The lesson I take from the SpaceX IPO is that the only thing stopping us from solving arbitrarily difficult problems is extreme creativity in business models.
No amount of tax and spend programs got us reusable rockets and great electric cars. Customer delight is a necessary precondition for success.
There seems to be some discussion around whether successful entrepreneurs should give up control of their companies so they can subsidize some philanthropic venture that otherwise has no value prop sufficient to run it as a business where customers voluntarily exchange money for goods and services at a competitive and reasonable price.
This misses the point. Transformational products deliver tangible value at 1000x the rate of charities whose value cannot be tested in the market place. Think about the undeniable value of the smart phone, satellite Internet, electric consumer devices, etc etc.
I think the transformational moment for SpaceX was when Elon stepped away from the philanthropic Mars greenhouse concept and fixed his resolve on unlocking radically better rockets for humanity. The greenhouse would have been, at best, a neat trick. Falcon and Starship give humanity a durable economic engine to maintain and improve access to space, forever.
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.@CFTC Issues No-Action Letter for DCMs Converting Existing Perpetual-Style Digital Commodity Futures into True Digital Commodity Perpetual Futures: cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressRele…
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Jun 13
.@paulg's quote is a good prompt for your agent to make anyone's writing more concise
"strive to make my writing unsummarizable, in the sense that it has so little fluff left in it that if you take any words out, as summaries by definition do, you lose a lot of interesting ideas"
i've been testing voice dictation, which then runs through this prompt, for messages to colleagues
Jun 12
The most frequent feedback I get (especially at @coinbase) is that I could be more concise, or "Can you make this into a bullet point?"
My usual defense was that I'm not trying to transfer information. I'm trying to infect people with a way of thinking or an idea. The bullet gives you the conclusion without the path, and the path is what changes how you see the next ten problems.
And while I agree with my defense, it can also be an excuse. I kept trying to be more concise, but I didn't have a good forcing function for it, because "the idea needs room" justifies any length.
This tweet from @paulg last week really stuck with me. I think about it every time I write now. (my agents too)
P.S. This could probably be summarized better.
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Jun 12
With over $200B of trading volume in the US alone, we'll just call them what they always were.
US Perps.
22 assets. Institutional-grade liquidity. No expiration.
Live on Coinbase (for a year now).
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Jun 12
Writing history here.
Noting: we do understand there are gold and silver perp trading 24/7 on offshore exchange, but this is the first regulated fully compliant gold and silver trading 24/7!
Jun 12
For the first time ever, US-regulated gold and silver futures won’t be closing for the weekend. Or ever.
24/7 trading goes live tonight on Coinbase.
With oil, and more, coming soon.
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Jun 12
Extending Gold and Silver futures trading to 24/7 tonight — in the U.S. and now on @coinbase.
Another big step toward bringing innovative financial products onshore under clear rules and strong oversight, thanks to the leadership of the @CFTC and @ChairmanSelig.
Few assets are better suited to this moment than gold and silver. They price global risk in real time — reacting to inflation data out of Europe, central bank decisions in Asia, and geopolitical events that don't wait for U.S. markets to open. A 24/7, U.S.-regulated venue finally lets American markets reflect that reality continuously, rather than catching up at the next bell.
As Chair Selig noted this week, America should lead in building the financial infrastructure of the future, not push it offshore. When policymakers provide clarity, innovators build. And when innovators build in the U.S., American consumers and markets benefit.
Jun 12
For the first time ever, US-regulated gold and silver futures won’t be closing for the weekend. Or ever.
24/7 trading goes live tonight on Coinbase.
With oil, and more, coming soon.
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Jun 12
Coinbase has been building toward 'Coinbase for Agents' since AgentKit in 2024, then x402 last year.
The bet being that people swill stop using apps and start using agents.
(With Coinbase becoming the account those agents plug into) 👇
Jun 12
Coinbase just handed AI agents the keys to your trading account.
Yesterday they launched "Coinbase for Agents," which connects agents like Claude or ChatGPT directly to your @Coinbase account.
Your agent can now read your portfolio AND place the trades (save this).
Some of what's possible on day one:
You give it a target allocation (say 60% $BTC, 20% $ETH, 20% $SOL) and tell it to set limit orders at 5%, 10%, and 15% dips so you build the position gradually.
Or you ask it to find the best DCA window. It pulls 30 days of hourly price data, finds when $ETH historically trades cheapest, and sets a recurring $20 buy at that hour every day.
It can also watch your idle cash around the clock and put it to work earning rewards.
Worried about giving an AI full access to your portfolio?
Your Coinbase agent can live in an isolated portfolio with zero visibility into your other holdings, where it only touches what you've explicitly permissioned.
Soon you'll be able to set hard caps too:
Max trade size, what it can interact with, how much it can spend.
Coinbase compares it to giving your agent a gift card instead of your bank account.
Every payment also runs through the same KYT and transaction monitoring as the rest of Coinbase.
What's coming next:
Stocks, index funds, prediction markets, and commodities.
If it trades on Coinbase, they want your agent trading it.
Plus x402 payments, so your agent can buy its own data and services to inform trades - and a remote MCP that connects with just a Coinbase sign-in, no API keys.
They also dropped Coinbase Advisor, an AI advisor inside the Coinbase app that's registered with the SEC and CFTC.
Coinbase has been building toward this since AgentKit in 2024, then x402 last year.
The bet being that people swill stop using apps and start using agents.
(With Coinbase becoming the account those agents plug into.)
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Jun 12
Coinbase stays flexing. Epic.
Jun 12
The largest USDC transfer in history.
~$4.4B sent to the Coinbase Hyperliquid deployer.
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Jun 12
The largest USDC transfer in history.
~$4.4B sent to the Coinbase Hyperliquid deployer.
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Jun 12
OpenAI
What pre-IPO perp should we list next?
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Jun 12
Already 90m deposits in Coinbase high yield earn product on @base (30m from CB users) in 1 day.
Nice collab between @coinbase, @SteakhouseFi & @ethena.
The DeFi mullet keeps growing.
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New funding opportunity on @ResearchHub: 💰
$5K for complexity science applied to real-world health systems.
Agent-based models, network analysis, systems dynamics — if you're thinking beyond linear causality in public health, this one's for you.
Open to all career stages, internationally.
Apply here: researchhub.com/grant/32295
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SPCX-PERP has completed its conversion from a pre-IPO market to a standard stock perpetual future. 🚀
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Jun 12
Financial services are stuck in the past.
Markets that close.
Settlement that takes days.
Assets that are trapped in separate accounts.
We're building the alternative: one account for everything. Instant. 24/7.
@Maxbranzburg, Head of Consumer & Business Products, lays it out.
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Coinbase has spent over a decade building trusted financial infrastructure
The next chapter is doing the same onchain with @base
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