Coinbase, Ripple, a16z and other crypto heavyweights are expected at a White House meeting on Aug. 19, just as the CLARITY Act nears a key Senate vote. The push is for real U.S. crypto rules — but major fights over oversight, stablecoins and developer protections remain.
Read Full Article
Coinbase has won approval in Abu Dhabi to handle tokenized securities, giving it a regulated launchpad for a bigger push into onchain finance. The move fits a wider tokenization race, but the U.S. still sits behind a thick wall of securities-law friction.
Read Full Article
Coinbase is rolling out 170+ crypto derivatives in the UK for eligible professional investors, including perpetual futures, dated futures, and options. The move expands regulated access to high-leverage trading while underscoring Coinbase’s push to become a broader “Everything Exchange.”
Read Full Article
Crypto-linked stocks are increasingly trading like Bitcoin proxies, with Coinbase leading the pack as investors price crypto exposure, fee pressure, and market sentiment more than traditional equity fundamentals. Kaiko says scale, liquidity, and diversified revenue will decide who survives.
Read Full Article
Coinbase is suspending six weak trading pairs while adding BIO, BNKR and TREE for eligible users and pushing institutional clients onto Deribit. The move shows a broader shift toward cleaner markets and higher-margin derivatives, even as spot trading gets trimmed.
Read Full Article
Coinbase will migrate institutional International Exchange derivatives clients to Deribit on Sept. 9, with about 30 minutes of downtime as positions are settled and recreated. Firms that don’t want the move must opt out by Aug. 28, and API keys won’t transfer.
Read Full Article
Perpetual-style trading is spilling out of crypto and into oil and other assets, bringing faster access and more efficient exposure — plus the same leverage, liquidation, and benchmark risks that make perps a beautiful mess.
Read Full Article
Coinbase’s Q2 numbers show the pain when retail trading dries up: revenue fell, losses widened, and spot volume slid again. The exchange is leaning harder on USDC, subscriptions, and new product bets to build a business that’s less hostage to trader mood swings.
Read Full Article
Ark Invest is not abandoning crypto equities — it’s rotating into the names it likes most, buying Coinbase and Circle while trimming Bitmine, Bullish, and Block as the sector weakens and U.S. policy stays murky. Bitcoin and stablecoin rules still run the show.
Read Full Article
Coinbase is betting that AI agents will need fast, programmable money—and it wants Base, USDC, and x402 to be the rails. The setup is promising, but the 100 million transactions on Base include plenty of meme-coin noise, so the real adoption story is still being sorted out.
Read Full Article