No Priors · Thursday, September 10, 2026
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, outlines the company's vision for the 'Everything Exchange,' which aims to consolidate trading for all asset classes, including stocks, commodities, and crypto. He highlights stablecoin payments as a rapidly growing area, enabling fast and cheap global transactions.
“So we're at a really exciting time in Coinbase's history because on the one hand, every asset class is coming on chain. It's now possible to trade everything in one place with good liquidity and good cross margin. And so for markets and trading and that out there, stocks and commodities and crypto and derivatives, perpetual futures, like it's all coming to one place where traders can do everything in one spot, including prediction markets too.”
“The next big area that's emerging is stablecoin payments, which have just been growing like crazy. Um, even when Bitcoin prices are down, stablecoin payments just keep growing. And so we're helping companies all over the world integrate stablecoin payments, which are fast and cheap and global. And you can send money at the speed of information, right? It's kind of like under one second, under one cent, US, to move money anywhere in the world.”