Brian Armstrong
Co-founder & CEO at Coinbase · Co-Founder at ResearchHub
Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. He founded the company, which has become one of the largest in the Bitcoin space, in June . He is also the co-founder of GiveCrypto, working to build an open financial system for the world. Before founding Coinbase, Armstrong worked as a Software Engineer at AirBNB from to . He had also previously founded UniversityTutory.com and worked as a software engineer at CarWoo.com.
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Base had Coinbase's distribution and still couldn't make its consumer app win. Taylor Monahan's takeaway: "Just because you have distribution does not make it magic." https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1XGyggDrRVexM
Kain Warwick on why Coinbase can make bets no one else can: "Coinbase is… the closest thing that we have to a Google in crypto… you feel like you have the mandate of heaven to go out and do some crazy shit." https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1qJDzzqXeAeKV
Coinbase reports Bitcoin sentiment nears capitulation level in Q2
Coinbase no longer supports INJ ERC-20 deposits or withdrawals on Ethereum mainnet.
Glad to have Tempo now supported on Coinbase! Grateful for the partnership @ShanAggarwal @emiliemc @brian_armstrong https://x.com/CoinbaseMarkets/status/2079989744532959553
The SEC deleted a full year of Gary Gensler's communications at the peak of his campaign against crypto. The FDIC tried to secretly cut off an entire lawful industry from the banking system and buried the evidence. The US government doesn't get to operate like this. Unless the American people allo
people are quick to forget what coinbase has done for the crypto industry. but some of us will never forget.
How much major crypto companies have spent lobbying the US government in 2026: Coinbase - $1,007,000 Crypto . com - $955,000 A16z - $1,045,000 Kalshi - $865,000 Robinhood - $780,000 Ripple - $630,000 Jump - $320,000 Hedera - $150,000 Ava Labs - $130,000 FalconX - $120,000
We co-led Morpho's seed in 2022 on the belief that *minimal* lending primitives could become infrastructure underpinning onchain finance. Today it's used by Robinhood, Coinbase, Société Générale, Apollo and other leading fintech and financial institutions for variable rate lending products.
RT @Matt_Hougan: Kudos to @coinbase for pursuing this. It is so incredibly absurd that the SEC claimed to have "lost" a year of Gensler's t…