2025-10-30
Left Google in 2021 because it was getting slow, boring and woke. But kept and held many of my RSUs as a hedge. 🫡 [image]
Alphabet
Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 16% YoY to $102.35B, vs. $99.89B est., Cloud revenue up 34% to $15.16B, and net income up 33% to $34.98B; GOOG jumps 5%+
Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2025 Results
2025-08-09
Solana DEX trading will also be powered by @CoinbaseDev Embedded Wallets
Decrypt
Coinbase rolls out DEX trading in its app for US users, excluding New York state, starting with assets on the Base network, with Solana support “coming soon”
all without ever needing to leave the Coinbase app Stay tuned for more @hellotelos : The future of token listings is here. No gatekeepers. No delays. Millions of assets. One app. C...
2025-06-13
Thrilled to share that the @CoinbaseDev APIs are powering Shopify's integration with USDC and Base! Our Smart Account APIs facilitate these payments, enabling commerce at scale. The world is coming onchain. Base 🤝 CDP 🤝 Shopify [image]
CoinDesk
Shopify partners with Coinbase to enable USDC payments for its merchants through Coinbase's Base layer-2 network, starting with a limited group of merchants
The integration is set to roll out on June 12 to a limited group of early access merchants, with wider availability expected later in the year.
2025-03-12
The Crypto X AI narrative isn't just hype, it's very real. @CoinbaseDev AgentKit is a day 0 customer of thhe @openai Agents SDK, as announced in OpenAI's blog post today. Implementing onchain agentic actions is now trivial using the OpenAI AgentKit package. [image]
The Verge
OpenAI debuts a Responses API to help developers build agents that search the web, scan for files, and perform tasks on PCs, and an Agents SDK for orchestration
But really, why isn't OpenAI building their own agents if their tech is so powerful? [embedded post] X: Atty Eleti / @athyuttamre : Introducing the Responses API: the new primitive...
2024-06-02
All President Biden had to do was nothing. He could have kept his mouth shut and the SAB 121 repeal would have become law on June 5. We would have celebrated and nobody else would have noticed. Instead, he has willfully subverted a bipartisan majority of Congress to make crypto
The Block
President Biden vetoes a bill overturning SAB 121, a controversial SEC bulletin that establishes accounting standards for companies that custody crypto
- U.S. President Joe Biden vetoed a bill to overturn a controversial Securities and Exchange Commission bulletin, SAB 121 …
2024-05-24
Three Democrat representatives from Massachusetts, where anti-crypto Army general Elizabeth Warren is Senator, voted to pass FIT-21: Jake Auchincloss, Katherine M. Clark, and Seth Moulton. Senator Warren's malign influence on crypto policy is completely collapsing.
Decrypt
The US House passes the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, or FIT21, which would create a regulatory framework for digital assets
The full list of Democrats who voted to pass FIT-21: Aguilar, California Allred, Texas Auchincloss, Massachusetts Bera, California Beyer, Virginia Boyle (PA), Pennsylvania Budzinski, Illinois Caraveo, Colorado Clark (MA), Massachusetts Costa, California Craig, Minnesota
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The US House passes the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, or FIT21, which would create a regulatory framework for digital assets
2024-05-23
The full list of Democrats who voted to pass FIT-21: Aguilar, California Allred, Texas Auchincloss, Massachusetts Bera, California Beyer, Virginia Boyle (PA), Pennsylvania Budzinski, Illinois Caraveo, Colorado Clark (MA), Massachusetts Costa, California Craig, Minnesota
Decrypt
The US House passes the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, or FIT21, which would create a regulatory framework for digital assets
Dubbed the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, or FIT21, the measure was approved by the House of Representatives with a 279-136 vote.
Three Democrat representatives from Massachusetts, where anti-crypto Army general Elizabeth Warren is Senator, voted to pass FIT-21: Jake Auchincloss, Katherine M. Clark, and Seth Moulton. Senator Warren's malign influence on crypto policy is completely collapsing.
Decrypt
The US House passes the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, or FIT21, which would create a regulatory framework for digital assets
Dubbed the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, or FIT21, the measure was approved by the House of Representatives with a 279-136 vote.
2024-05-07
One possible future: SEC issues Wells Notice to Robinhood Robinhood realizes they need to fight back Robinhood relists SOL because it's not a security and there's nothing to lose anymore WallstreetBets traders get easy bid access to SOL SOL to $500 NFA
CoinDesk
Filing: Robinhood's crypto arm got a Wells notice from the US SEC on May 4; on June 27, 2023, Robinhood ended support for tokens named in previous SEC lawsuits
Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk :
2024-01-12
I have 8 years worth of 401K savings at @Vanguard_Group from my time as an employee at Google. I will be rolling over these funds to @Fidelity. Vanguard's paternalistic blocking of Bitcoin ETFs does not fit in with my investment philosophy.
Reuters
LSEG: US bitcoin ETFs saw $4.6B worth of shares traded on January 11, their first day of trading; Grayscale, BlackRock, and Fidelity dominated trading volumes
U.S.-listed bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw $4.6 billion worth of shares trade hands as of Thursday afternoon …
2023-08-12
@0xRacerAlt @tweetdao https://friend.tech/ is a decentralized social media app that tokenizes crypto personalities: - You can buy and sell “shares” of people - Ownership of a share grants you access to a private chat with that person - Share price fluctuates according to supply and demand [image]
CoinDesk
A look at friend.tech, a decentralized social app built on Base that has driven 4,400 ETH in trading volume since launching its invite-only beta on Thursday
Cam Thompson / CoinDesk :
https://friend.tech/ is built by @0xRacerAlt, a crypto OG. He was the lead dev of @TweetDAO - an NFT which granted access to posting from a shared Twitter account. The project went viral before devolving. It was one of the first forays into decentralized social media. [image]
CoinDesk
A look at friend.tech, a decentralized social app built on Base that has driven 4,400 ETH in trading volume since launching its invite-only beta on Thursday
Cam Thompson / CoinDesk :
2023-08-05
I'm very proud of everyone at Coinbase for improving efficiency, driving regulatory clarity, and innovating constantly despite an uncertain environment. Operating expenses decreased 13% while cash reserves increased 3% QOQ, and Base mainnet launches imminently. LFG 🛡️
Bloomberg
Coinbase reports Q2 revenue down 12% YoY to $707.9M, vs. $631.2M est., net loss down 91% YoY to $97M, and transaction revenue down 50% YoY to $327.1M
2023-08-04
I'm very proud of everyone at Coinbase for improving efficiency, driving regulatory clarity, and innovating constantly despite an uncertain environment. Operating expenses decreased 13% while cash reserves increased 3% QOQ, and Base mainnet launches imminently. LFG 🛡️
Bloomberg
Coinbase reports Q2 revenue down 12% YoY to $707.9M, vs. $631.2M est., net loss down 91% YoY to $97M, and transaction revenue down 50% YoY to $327.1M
- Trading revenue was less than that from other sources — Interest income down after USDC stablecoin circulation fell
2023-06-13
I will continue to build at @coinbase - In a bear market, against bad faith regulatory pressure, with the press against us, and even when there are easier jobs out there - Because I believe in increasing economic freedom in the world through secure, decentralized systems. 🛡️ https://twitter.com/...
Molly White
Unpacking Coinbase's flawed talking points in its battle with the SEC, including the argument that “securities laws written in the 1930s can't apply to crypto”
Coinbase is trotting out its usual flawed arguments now that it's facing a lawsuit from the SEC, and more pushback is needed.
The contrast between Prime Minister Sunak's and President Biden's position on crypto is mind-boggling. The decision of this administration to alienate crypto in the US will be remembered as a generational policy blunder, costing billions of dollars in lost economic output. https://twitter.com/...
Axios
a16z plans to open a crypto-focused office in London and leads a $43M round in London-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI
Over the last year it has become clear that blockchains … Reuters : London crypto move is a sign of desperate times FinSMEs : Gensyn Raises £33.8M in Series A Funding Eli Dambel / ...
2023-06-12
The contrast between Prime Minister Sunak's and President Biden's position on crypto is mind-boggling. The decision of this administration to alienate crypto in the US will be remembered as a generational policy blunder, costing billions of dollars in lost economic output. https://twitter.com/...
Axios
a16z plans to open a crypto-focused office in London and leads a $43M round in UK-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI
America's largest investor in crypto startups believes that the industry's future may be across the pond, and is opening …
2023-03-24
This is not merely an economic or legal battle. It is an ethical one. A federal government agency *refuses* to provide guidelines for the industry it purports to regulate, and uses that lack of clarity to accuse wrongdoing. It is wrong and shameful. A national embarrassment. https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Filing: Coinbase received an SEC notice warning the exchange of potential US securities law violations that could lead to enforcement actions; COIN drops 10%+
I grew up in Massachusetts. Public high school, Harvard College. Center left political views. Worked at Google for 8 years. Not exactly anti-establishment. And I am proud to help @coinbase fight for economic freedom against the SEC's overreach because the truth is on our side. https://twitter.com/...
CNBC