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Brian Armstrong

@brian_armstrong
317 posts
2026-04-03
.@Coinbase has received conditional OCC charter approval. We're not becoming a bank, it's a trust company. We're bringing the infrastructure of crypto under federal regulatory oversight.
2026-04-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Coinbase says it has won conditional approval from US banking regulators for a national trust company charter, which could let it issue stablecoins and more

Coinbase Global Inc., the largest US cryptocurrency exchange, said it has won conditional approval from banking regulators …

2026-03-27
Get a mortgage backed by Bitcoin or USDC
2026-03-27 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Fannie Mae will accept crypto-backed mortgages for the first time; Coinbase launches a mortgage product allowing buyers to pledge bitcoin or USDC as collateral

New offering from Better Home & Finance and Coinbase allows home buyers to pledge bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies when making a down payment

2026-03-26
Get a mortgage backed by Bitcoin or USDC
2026-03-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Fannie Mae will accept crypto-backed mortgages for the first time; Coinbase launches a mortgage product allowing buyers to pledge bitcoin or USDC as collateral

New offering from Better Home & Finance and Coinbase allows home buyers to pledge bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies when making a down payment

2026-02-18
Couldn't be more clear. CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets in the U.S.
2026-02-18 View on X
Axios

CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the commission will file friend-of-the-court briefs to defend its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets amid state lawsuits

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is launching a legal campaign to defend its regulatory turf on prediction markets …

Couldn't be more clear. CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets in the U.S.
2026-02-18 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A Las Vegas federal appeals court rejects Kalshi's emergency bid for an administrative stay on Nevada's push to block the platform, a major setback for Kalshi

A federal appeals court rejected Kalshi's bid, setting the stage for Nevada's civil-enforcement proceedings

2026-02-17
Couldn't be more clear. CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets in the U.S.
2026-02-17 View on X
Axios

CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the commission will file friend-of-the-court briefs to defend its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets amid state lawsuits

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is launching a legal campaign to defend its regulatory turf on prediction markets …

2026-02-13
It's earnings day. 2025 was a strong year for Coinbase, and we built a solid foundation for continued growth in 2026. Our thesis is actually very simple: crypto is updating all financial services, and we're the best positioned company to capitalize on this transformation. Some [video]
2026-02-13 View on X
Decrypt

Coinbase reports Q4 revenue down 22% YoY to $1.78B, vs. $1.84B est., transaction revenue down 37% YoY to $983M, and a $667M loss, vs. a $1.3B profit in Q4 2024

Coinbase reported a down quarter for the end of 2025, with its investment portfolio plunging alongside Bitcoin and other crypto assets.

2026-02-12
The next unlock for AI agents just launched. @CoinbaseDev released agentic wallets, the first wallet infrastructure designed for AI agents. Now agents can spend, earn, and trade autonomously and securely.
2026-02-12 View on X
The Block

Coinbase rolls out Agentic Wallets, wallet infrastructure on the x402 protocol to let AI agents make autonomous crypto transactions “without human intervention”

Quick Take  — Agentic Wallets builds on the x402 protocol developed to enable autonomous crypto payments “without human intervention.”

It's earnings day. 2025 was a strong year for Coinbase, and we built a solid foundation for continued growth in 2026. Our thesis is actually very simple: crypto is updating all financial services, and we're the best positioned company to capitalize on this transformation. Some [video]
2026-02-12 View on X
Decrypt

Coinbase reports Q4 revenue down 22% YoY to $1.78B, vs. $1.84B est., transaction revenue down 37% to $983M, a net loss of $667M, vs. a $1.3B profit in Q4 2024

Coinbase reported a down quarter for the end of 2025, with its investment portfolio plunging alongside Bitcoin and other crypto assets.

2026-02-09
I loved the idea for our Super Bowl ad as soon as the team showed it to me. It's unique, just like our QR code ad in 2022. Most people half watch commercials (buzzed, in a loud room, with lots of people). It takes something unique to break through. Turning 100M+ screens into
2026-02-09 View on X
TechCrunch

A look at the 2026 Super Bowl ads from Anthropic, Meta, Amazon, Google, and others, as AI continued to take center stage in ad creation and AI product promotion

Following last year's trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements took it a step further …

2026-02-06
True Corollary: there are opportunities in every market (and right now there are definitely some great ones!)
2026-02-06 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Strategy reports Q4 net loss up 1,749% YoY to $12.4B, as BTC trades below the company's $76,052 average purchase price; MSTR is down ~60% over the past year

Shares of the bitcoin-stockpiling company have fallen sharply since crypto prices touched all-time highs in October

True Corollary: there are opportunities in every market (and right now there are definitely some great ones!)
2026-02-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Bitcoin briefly dropped to as low as $60K on February 5, its lowest level since November 2024 and down ~50% from its October 2025 peak, as global markets fall

from Epstein to quantum to AI to the death of crypto twitter — clobbering the coins [image]@luke_metro:how low does crypto have to drop before I never have to hear about Fairshake ...

2026-02-05
True Corollary: there are opportunities in every market (and right now there are definitely some great ones!)
2026-02-05 View on X
Bloomberg

Bitcoin falls to ~$66K, its lowest level since President Trump's election win in November 2024 and down 44%+ from its October 2025 peak as global markets fall

Bitcoin slumped below $70,000, a level last seen 15 months ago, as a broad risk-off sentiment engulfed global markets.

2026-02-04
Powerful - every @ycombinator company should set up a Coinbase Business account to receive it (link in follow on post)
2026-02-04 View on X
Fortune

Y Combinator says it will let founders receive their customary funding allotment, typically ~$500K, in Circle-issued USDC, starting with the Spring 2026 cohort

2026-02-03
Powerful - every @ycombinator company should set up a Coinbase Business account to receive it (link in follow on post)
2026-02-03 View on X
Fortune

Y Combinator says it will let founders receive their customary funding allotment, typically ~$500K, in Circle-issued USDC, starting with the Spring 2026 cohort

2026-01-24
Dan & Varun are good guys and handled this with integrity.
2026-01-24 View on X
Bloomberg

R&D firm Merkle, which sold Farcaster, says it plans to repay VCs the $180M they invested in the social media project, and says Farcaster is not shutting down

2026-01-23
Dan & Varun are good guys and handled this with integrity.
2026-01-23 View on X
Bloomberg

R&D firm Merkle, which sold Farcaster, says it plans to repay VCs the $180M they invested in the social media project, and says Farcaster is not shutting down

The software firm behind a crypto-oriented social-media platform plans to repay venture capitalists the $180 million …

2026-01-15
After reviewing the Senate Banking draft text over the last 48hrs, Coinbase unfortunately can't support the bill as written. There are too many issues, including: - A defacto ban on tokenized equities - DeFi prohibitions, giving the government unlimited access to your financial
2026-01-15 View on X
CoinDesk

Coinbase pulls support from the US Senate's crypto market structure bill ahead of a key vote; CEO Brian Armstrong says there are “too many issues” with the bill

CEO Brian Armstrong said there were “too many issues” with the bill.  —  Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the exchange …

2026-01-10
Great video - it's time to build.
2026-01-10 View on X
Forbes

a16z captured 18%+ of all venture capital allocated in the US in 2025 and now manages $90B in assets, vs. Sequoia Capital's $56B and General Catalyst's $43B

Andreessen Horowitz has raised $15 billion for five new growth and venture funds in one of the largest-ever raises for a venture capital fund.

Great video - it's time to build.
2026-01-10 View on X
Axios

a16z raises $15B+ across five new funds, including $6.75B for its fifth growth fund, the largest sum, and $3B for unspecified “other venture strategies”

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, whose past investments included Airbnb and Coinbase, on Friday announced …