Brian Armstrong
@brian_armstrong • 2,658,735 subscribers
Co-founder & CEO at @Coinbase. Creating more economic freedom in the world. ENS: barmstrong.eth Co-founder @researchhub @newlimit
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Our new Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️ portal is looking awesome! It's the best place to build in crypto. It gives access to all our powerful developer tools (wallets, payment APIs, x402, etc) in one dashboard. You can even launch a branded stablecoin, backed 100% by USDC.
Brian Armstrong52,153 Aufrufe • vor 20 Stunden
CLARITY is closer than ever. The bill is strong. It will benefit the American people by making the US financial system faster, cheaper and more accessible. It will also ensure that the US leads in the global race to build the next generation of our financial system. Huge thank you to the Senate, their staff, and 3.7m Stand With Crypto🛡️ advocates for helping to get this legislation to where it is today. Mark it up.
Brian Armstrong1,251,748 Aufrufe • vor 24 Tagen
There’s a generational shift happening, and Coinbase is uniquely positioned to capture it: 1) The onchain economy has reached escape velocity 2) Coinbase's full stack platform is powering it 3) The next frontier is agentic and on Coinbase Our thesis is simple: crypto is the best form of money, and the infrastructure will overhaul the existing financial system. If it involves money, it will involve crypto. Coinbase is uniquely positioned to capitalize on this transformation. Some highlights from our earnings today: - Gained share in both spot and derivatives globally, reaching an all-time high in crypto trading volume market share - Saw huge growth in derivatives trading volume, driven by our Everything Exchange - 10x increase in stablecoin transaction volume on Base - USDC on our platform hit another all-time high - >90% of onchain agentic stablecoin transaction volume is on Base - 12 consecutive quarters of net native unit inflows- customers have been adding more crypto to Coinbase every quarter
Brian Armstrong514,952 Aufrufe • vor 29 Tagen
Today's vote on the Clarity Act is a big opportunity to move America's financial system forward.
Brian Armstrong318,566 Aufrufe • vor 23 Tagen
When you send money abroad, it should just arrive, without a massive haircut.
Brian Armstrong1,041,601 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Satoshi famously said “If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.” Yet somehow I do find myself trying to convince people at times :) Crypto is disrupting the financial system, and it's getting more rare to find true skeptics out there. But a few holdouts do still exist. We should explain it as much as is necessary to make it happen.
Brian Armstrong843,352 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
One of the toughest parts of being a founder is putting your ideas into the world, seeing if anyone cares (usually they don't - or worse, are rooting against you), and then seeing if you can actually pull it off (usually way more setbacks along the way than you thought!). You have to: (1) develop thick skin and find a way to ignore the haters (2) still take advice from people who have your best interests at heart (3) have the wisdom to know the difference Then move from one setback to the next with no loss of enthusiasm for longer than you thought. Be borderline delusional, get after it every day for a decade, and turn out to be right. Finally, when your tenth or hundredth approach to a problem doesn't work, just keep coming up with more ideas. Had a great day at Base Batches yesterday, meeting founders building on Base and hearing about the latest onchain innovations. Shout out to all the founders!
Brian Armstrong91,757 Aufrufe • vor 15 Tagen
I'm confident we can achieve a market structure win-win that advances the President's crypto agenda while addressing the concerns of the banks. Our focus throughout will be to advocate for what's best for crypto users. We’re all in - we were the first ones fighting for market structure before it was popular, and we’re staying at the table. GENIUS passed 6 months ago and is now being re-litigated. That deeply impacts our customers. Coinbase attended both recent White House meetings and the crypto industry is aligned. We’re making good progress towards reaching a win-win-win between the White House, banks and crypto, and we'll keep advocating for what's best for crypto users, especially core consumer benefits like rewards.
Brian Armstrong573,242 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Historic day at the Whitehouse Digital Asset Summit. Thanks to President Donald J. Trump’s leadership, along with David Sacks, the U.S. now has a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and emerging regulatory clarity. This is directly translating to economic growth in the U.S. For instance, Coinbase plans to hire about 1,000 employees in the U.S. this year as a result of this renewed growth. We’ll continue to build this industry in America to ensure the U.S. remains a leader in technology and finance.
Brian Armstrong1,469,165 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
1/ I'm sharing the 10 ideas I'm most excited about in crypto right now. If you're building something in crypto or thinking about doing so - check it out. We’re building lots at Coinbase, but we don't have time to tackle everything. So I figured I'd share these. Bear markets are the best time for building - why not start today?
Brian Armstrong3,118,119 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren
Just arrived in Davos for World Economic Forum. Three main goals this week: 1) Talk to world leaders about economic freedom and how crypto can update their financial systems 2) Continue the push for market structure legislation 3) Keep pushing for tokenization to democratize access to capital markets The future of finance is here, and this time it's built for the people.
Brian Armstrong429,292 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
I think we'll see $1M per bitcoin by 2030. Regulatory clarity is finally emerging, the US government is keeping a BTC reserve, there's a growing interest for crypto ETFs, among many other factors. (Not financial advice of course, it's impossible to guarantee)
Brian Armstrong727,050 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten
Exciting update: Coinbase has partnered with Perplexity to help traders get access to real-time trusted crypto data/info for better decision making. The first stage is going live today, and there's more to come: Phase 1 (now): Perplexity is now ingesting our market data, including COIN50, and using it to power market analysis. Users can double click into price moves to help make better informed trade decisions. The demo below shows what it looks like on Comet, Perplexity’s new browser. Also, the Perplexity team shared that just as many users are looking up crypto as equities, which is a cool stat. Crypto is going mainstream. Phase 2 (soon): Coinbase’s market data will be used in Perplexity’s responses to user queries. Traders will be able to monitor market activity, screen for trade ideas, and analyze token-specific moves in an AI-powered conversational interface. This integration was made seamless by our Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️ platform. Love to see more use cases here! I expect enhanced crypto functionality will be a catalyst for AI to achieve another 10x unlock. Personally I’m most excited to see crypto wallets fully integrated into LLMs one day. That will be a huge step towards a permissionless, digital economy. And today, this new access to reliable real-time data via increasingly intelligent LLMs will help lots more people make smart, informed decisions about crypto. It’s a great step forward! Aravind Srinivas and the team at Perplexity are amazing - I’m excited to be starting this journey with them.
Brian Armstrong812,864 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten
