We launched several new products to usher in the future of finance on Coinbase. This includes the start of our rollout for stock trading and prediction markets on the main Coinbase app alongside a simple interface to trade futures and perps, the ability to trade all Solana assets as soon as they’re created, primary token sales, the global launch of the Base App as an onchain “everything app,” and general availability for Coinbase Business. Each one marks a significant step in making Coinbase a world-class financial platform for individuals and businesses
For the last thirteen years, Coinbase has been building toward a new financial system. One that is always-on, more efficient, and accessible to everyone in order to drive greater economic freedom around the world. Today, we’re taking a major new step toward becoming the Everything Exchange – dramatically expanding the assets available to trade on Coinbase, including novel cryptocurrencies, stocks¹, perpetual futures, and prediction markets.² From trading and investing in new assets to building and transacting onchain, our goal is to create a complete, seamless experience for retail users, institutions, and developers to embrace the future of finance.This is the next evolution of Coinbase.
Stock Trading & Tokenization
Coinbase is bridging the gap between traditional investments and crypto by introducing stock trading to our core trading experience. We begin rolling out stock trading to Coinbase users in the United States.¹ You will now be able to buy, sell, and manage leading stocks and ETFs alongside your crypto portfolios – with USD or USDC – all within one Coinbase app and account. This integration is key to our Everything Exchange mission and simplifies portfolio management, allowing you to diversify your investments and access both traditional and digital assets all in one place.
Traders will get zero-commission trading without the constraints of traditional market hours – trade your top stocks 24 hours a day, five days a week.² We plan to add thousands of additional stocks over the coming months. You can learn more about stocks on Coinbase here.
Everyone deserves access to be able to react instantly to earnings, macro events, and weekend news for global markets. Early next year, we also plan to broaden stock perpetuals so traders outside the US can get 24/7, capital efficient exposure to US stocks through the same simple Coinbase interface.If the future of finance is onchain, then so is the future of stock trading. In time, we believe everything will be tokenized, and bringing stocks to Coinbase is an important milestone toward enabling tokenized stocks.
With tokenized stocks, you’ll be able to trade 24/7 anywhere in the world, use the stocks you own onchain, and even make instant payments.To begin down that path, we plan to launch Coinbase Tokenize, our new end-to-end institutional platform for tokenizing real-world assets. Tokenize will bring together all the necessary infrastructure to power access to tokenized stocks on Coinbase. Stay tuned early next year for updates.
Prediction Markets
We also began rolling out access to prediction markets on Coinbase in the United States.³ You will soon be able to trade on the outcomes of real-world events like elections, sports, collectibles, and economic indicators, with prices of the event contracts determined by the collective trading activity of market participants. All market flow will come from Kalshi at launch.
This offers a unique way for Coinbase users to engage with global events, whether you’re forecasting the next big political shift or the outcome of a championship game. You will be able to manage your prediction market positions alongside your existing crypto, equities, and cash balances in the same trusted, simple, and unified interface you know.
Read more about it here, and begin trading your predictions with as little as $1 in USD or USDC.
A wider marketplace for predictions creates an avenue for more informed trading activity, and we plan to support contracts from additional prediction market platforms in the coming months.
Futures and Perpetual Futures Trading
For the last several years, we have worked to build a robust derivatives trading platform via Coinbase Advanced, offering dozens of unique contracts and being the first to provide perpetual futures in the U.S.This week, we’re bringing these advanced financial tools into the hands of millions in the United States by rolling out a new, simplified trading experience in the Coinbase app.³ It’s easier than ever to start trading futures and perpetual futures on Coinbase. Make bigger moves with less upfront capital, and take advantage of more favorable tax benefits when trading across crypto markets and commodities, all on a streamlined interface that makes trading derivatives as easy as buying bitcoin. Learn more here.
Solana DEX Trading
Coinbase Business is Here
Coinbase Business becomes available to all eligible businesses in the U.S. and Singapore.Coinbase Business is the all-in-one financial platform designed for startups and small businesses to tackle their operations with the speed, reach, and efficiency of crypto. We are empowering users to send and receive payments globally with payment links and invoices, manage crypto assets via Coinbase Advanced, earn rewards on USDC they hold, and automate financial workflows with access to Coinbase’s regulated infrastructure. And soon, businesses will get the same trading experience rolling out on the Coinbase retail platform, allowing businesses to hold and swap hundreds of different cryptocurrencies, stocks, and every token they need.Interested businesses can submit a no-fee, self-serve application with approvals in as little as two days. Learn more here.
Coinbase Advisor
We believe the future of finance is automated, intelligent, and accessible to everyone. We are taking a major step toward that future with Coinbase Advisor, our new AI-powered advisor for financial management directly in the main Coinbase App.⁵Coinbase Advisor bridges the gap between idea and execution. Instead of manually piecing together trades, users can simply tell the AI their goals and questions – “Build me a portfolio,” “What’s the latest market news and how does it impact me?” – and get a personalized answer with recommendations powered by the products, data, and tools available on Coinbase.
We’re building towards a future where high-quality financial guidance isn’t a luxury product, but a standard for everyone. Coinbase Advisor eliminates much of the manual work of portfolio management and the fear of navigating the investment world alone.Beta access for Coinbase Advisor is rolling out to early users. Learn more here.
The Base App is Available to Everyone, Everywhere
The new Base App is officially available in more than 140 countries.The Base App is an onchain everything app. It brings social, trading, payments, app discovery, and earning into one place. By bringing this all together, the app becomes a place where value flows through everything you create, share, and earn.
Until now, that value has been mostly captured by platforms instead of the people creating it. In the Base App, you own what you create and earn from what you do.Content in the Base App is tokenized and tradeable and value is set in an open market. This means your posts and creativity can become real assets you control.At the center of the app is a new social feed that’s the ‘for you’ page of asset discovery. Discover content, coins, creators, and communities, and then trade in just a few taps. Follow top traders, get notified when they create content or make trades, and copy their moves.
The Base App turns scrolling into earning. We believe the future of the internet is built on Base, and the Base App is a key part of how we get there.
Learn more about the Base App here.
Building the Future of Payments
Coinbase’s Developer Platform now has a full suite of capabilities centered around the four pillars where we see the most adoption and most exciting use cases: custody, payments, trading, and stablecoins.
Scaling fintech companies like Deel, Routable, Papaya, and dLocal are excited to build great products for their customers using our Payment APIs.
We also make it easy to embed self-custodial stablecoin wallets into any platform, enabling your customers to seamlessly pay in stablecoins at checkout. Shopify has already launched stablecoin checkout, and payment service providers like Checkout.com and PPRO are excited to launch with us in 2026.
We’re also announcing that you can create your own custom-branded stablecoin with Coinbase, backed by flexible collateral, including USDC. Coinbase Custom Stablecoins offer: the ability to embed your brand in every transaction; rewards on balances with best-in-class economics; and a seamless issuance process managed by Coinbase. We are excited to work with innovative partners like Flipcash, Solflare, and R2 who are exploring the launch of Custom Stablecoins for their customers in the coming months.
Finally, we recently launched x402, an open internet standard that makes it easy to attach a stablecoin payment to any web request – it enables AI agents to pay for content and execute transactions using stablecoins. In the past 30 days, the protocol has enabled over $200 million of annualized transactions. Next, we’re working on developing the x402 Foundation with Cloudflare and other partners to further the development of the standard.
We’re working hard to build the infrastructure needed to bring every company, from the smallest startup to the largest bank, onchain.
This is a defining moment in Coinbase’s journey, as we double down on our mission to create the Everything Exchange and an all-encompassing financial platform for all. We are rewriting the manual for how people and businesses manage their finances, by bringing all the benefits of crypto to all the world’s assets and payments, all in one place.Coinbase now gives consumers, traders, creators and businesses the tools they need to take full command of their financial futures, making Coinbase the most trusted place for them to earn, spend, and save across every asset class.
The system is updating. Are you tuning in?
Source: Coinbase
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