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In an interview, Brian Armstrong says Coinbase plans to become a financial super app that integrates its crypto offering with traditional banking services (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/09/20…

Coinbase News: Armstrong Outlines Vision for Firm to Evolve Into a Financial Super App
Brian Armstrong shared with Fox Business how Coinbase is navigating U.S. crypto regulation while laying out his vision to make the platform the primary account for everyday finance.

Q&A with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on starting the company, battling North Korean hackers, stablecoin adoption, the GENIUS Act, pro-crypto Congress, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-on-bitcoin…

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on bitcoin going to $1 million, electing a pro-crypto Congress, and Jamie Dimon
Brian Armstrong joins John Collison to talk about what’s happening behind the scenes at Coinbase: battling North Korean hackers, war stories from early scaling, confronting people who won’t use AI to code, Coinbase becoming people’s primary financial account, and why banks are now embracing crypto.

💸 Centrifuge Launches Tokenized S&P 500 Index Fund on Coinbase's Base Network
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/09/25/centrifuge-launches-tokenized-s-and-p-500-index-fund-on-coinbase-s-base-network

RWA News: Centrifuge Launches Tokenized S&P 500 Index Fund on Coinbase's Base with Wormhole
The SPXA offering is the first blockchain-based index fund licensed by the S&P Dow Jones Indices.

RedotPay, which offers stablecoin cards and multicurrency wallets, raised $47M from Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy Ventures, and others at a $1B valuation (James Hunt/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/372293/stablecoin-payments-fi…

https://www.ccn.com/news/crypto/coinbase-data-breach-court-documents-insider-sold-customer-info-200-a-photo/
Coinbase Data Breach: Court Documents Show Insider Sold Customer Info for $200 a Photo

Coinbase agrees to acquire Echo, a blockchain platform to let crypto companies quickly raise capital, for ~$375M, marking Coinbase's 8th acquisition in 2025 (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/coin…

Cardless, which lets Coinbase and others launch co-branded credit cards, raised $60M and projects annualized revenue will grow from $15M now to $150M by Q2 2026 (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--A bona fide self-replicating worm has infected 187 npm packages,
--BreachForums founder hit with new three-year sentence,
--Coinbase beach suspect accused of participating in $500k bribery scheme,
--DHS intelligence arm exposed sensitive database,
--MSFT seized 338 sites linked to Raccoon0365 stealer,
--DeepSeek is biased against Falun Gong and oth…

A self-replicating worm has infected 187 npm packages
BreachForums founder hit with new three-year sentence, Coinbase breach suspect accused of participating in $500k+ bribery scheme, DHS intelligence arm exposed sensitive database, MSFT seized 338 sites linked to Raccoon0365 stealer, DeepSeek is biased against Falun Gong and others, much more

TRM Labs launches Beacon Network, a real-time alert system for illicit crypto activity, partnering with law enforcement and exchanges like Binance and Coinbase (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/08/19

Crypto Offers Answer to Money Laundering Crisis: Global Alert Network Called 'Beacon'
An industry-wide project led by TRM Labs is officially going live, and includes law enforcement and the major exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance.

Sources: Coinbase and Mastercard have each held talks to acquire stablecoin startup BVNK for $1.5B-$2.5B; a deal would be the largest stablecoin acquisition yet (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/10/09/bvnk-acquisition-coinbase-mastercard-stable…

Exclusive: Coinbase and Mastercard have both held advanced talks to buy stablecoin startup BVNK for around $2 billion
Stablecoins have become a buzzy sector over the past year amid a red-hot IPO from the stablecoin giant Circle and recently passed legislation in Congress.

One big lesson to come out of the Coinbase breach: Organizations should be training on and red-teaming corporate bribery scenarios.
“I’ve never heard of the kind of pervasive bribery that this incident showed us, with the long-term focus and the amounts involved,” Philip Martin, CSO of Coinbase, tells CSO. “It was, to me, an evolution in attacker behavior.”
Check out my latest CSO piece, with thanks to Martin, Greg Linares of Huntress, and Zach Edwards of Silent Push for their in…

Behind the Coinbase breach: Bribery emerges as enterprise threat
Coinbase’s breach shows how bribery schemes — long used for SIM swaps — can be a potent enterprise attack vector. Experts urge security leaders to add bribery training and red-teaming to their cyber defense toolkits.

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" (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/334308/coinbase-roll…

Coinbase Rolls Out DEX Trading on Its App Starting With Base—And Solana 'Coming Soon'
The company is moving to become an "everything exchange," its CEO said.

Coinbase says its new "everything exchange" will include tokenized assets, stocks, derivatives, prediction markets, and more, for US users in the coming months (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/coinbase-t

Coinbase says it's launching tokenized stocks, predictions markets for U.S. users in coming months
The expansion puts Coinbase in even closer competition with Robinhood, Gemini and Kraken, all of whom have tokenized equity offerings for users outside the U.S.

Coinbase reports Q2 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.6B est., and retail trading volume up 16% to $43B, vs. $48.05B est.; COIN drops 6% after hours (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/coinbase-coin-earnings-q2-2025.html

Coinbase shares tumble as second-quarter revenue disappoints
Subscription revenue failed to offset weaker trading revenue.

Saw this at the train station. First thought was "how odd: a socialist message on a billboard". Then I saw the bottom right corner.

Coinbase invests in Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX to expand into India and the Middle East; CEO Sumit Gupta said the deal values CoinDCX at $2.45B post-money (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/374683/coinbase-invests-coindcx

Chicago-based stablecoin payments startup Coinflow raised a $25M Series A led by Pantera and says it supports stablecoin-powered payments in 170 countries (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/08/…

Coinflow Raises $25M to Scale Stablecoin Payments, Backed by Pantera and Coinbase
The company says it has grown revenue 23-fold since 2024 and now supports stablecoin-powered payments in over 170 countries.

Coinbase adds Embedded Wallets to its mobile SDK, allowing devs to integrate wallets into their apps with minimal code, with support for on-ramps and swaps (Vishal Chawla/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/365559/coinbase-launches-embedded-wallets-devel…

Stripe's stablecoin arm, Bridge, applied for a US national trust bank charter, joining Circle, Paxos, Ripple, and Coinbase in seeking federal oversight (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/344333/stablecoin-issuers-race-bank-charters-stripes-br…

Stablecoin Issuers Race for US Bank Charters as Stripe's Bridge Joins the Queue
Bridge, Stripe’s stablecoin arm, has applied to the OCC for a national trust bank, joining four others vying for federal approval.

Coinbase applies for a national trust company charter, says it "has no intention of becoming a bank" and the charter will allow expansion in areas like payments (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Singapore dollar-pegged XSGD stablecoin debuts on Coinbase, giving the city-state a head start over Hong Kong in launching a local currency-linked stablecoin (Dylan Loh/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/cryptocur…

Singapore beats Hong Kong to debut stablecoin amid crypto fever
XSGD touted for digital payments as Coinbase, Grab pile in

JPMorgan Chase and Coinbase signed a deal to directly link customers' bank accounts to their cryptocurrency wallets, with the feature expected to launch in 2026 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Coinbase is in advanced talks to acquire CoinDCX, potentially valuing the Indian crypto exchange at less than $1B, below its 2022 $2.15B valuation (Pankaj Mishra/Livemint)
https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/co

Former UK Chancellor and Coinbase Advisory Council member George Osborne says the UK missed the first crypto wave and risks missing the stablecoin-driven second (George Osborne/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3eded430-a854-44d6-9739-e8a350eae25f

Subzero Labs, which is building Rialo, a blockchain designed for non-crypto developers to build "real-world" apps, raised a $20M seed led by Pantera Capital (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/01/subzero-labs-seed-r…

Subzero Labs raises $20 million to build a blockchain for the ‘real world’
Pantera Capital led the fundraise, with participation from Variant, Coinbase Ventures, and Susquehanna Crypto.

The US starts publishing GDP data on nine public blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with the help of Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/us-puts-gdp-data-on-th…

PayPal unveils Pay With Crypto for merchants to accept bitcoin, ether, USDT, and more via Coinbase, OKX, and other wallets, rolling out in the coming weeks (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-28/p…