Ron Bernstein
Team at Coinbase
Ron Bernstein was CEO of Paradex before it was acquired by Coinbase. Fascinated with the convergence of the internet, peer-to-peer trading, sports betting and prediction markets, he founded Intrade in , and Tradesports in . Intrade went on become the world’s leading prediction marketplace until the platform's closure in . Ron became fascinated by "Blockchain" in and became an advisor to Augur.net in (a prediction market protocol built on top of the Ethereum blockchain). Next steps were forming Augment Partners, a technology company working to build sound financial business models in the growing world of decentralized trading. The development of digital currencies, more blockchains and decentralized software systems continues to fuel his interest in trading, prediction markets, and token economies, and how they may be applied in the real world to benefit everyday life. AugmentPartners' first commercial product release was a peer to peer, non-custodial erc token exchange called Paradex .
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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…
据《华尔街日报》，Coinbase 针对美国政府“扼喉行动 2.0”（Operation Choke Point 2.0）向政府提起诉讼并取得胜诉， SEC 曾通过“自动清除”机制删除了前主席 Gary Gensler 等官员的大量短信记录而被裁定赔偿 15 万美元。该行动此前曾通过向银行施压，迫使其切断与合法加密行业及客户的业务往来。众议院金融服务委员会民主党首席议员 Maxine Waters 亦批评政府在无理由、无申诉渠道的情况下关闭公民银行账户的做法。wublock123.com/news/coinbase-…
吴说获悉，CryptoQuant 分析师 CW 表示，USDC 自 5 月以来持续从交易所净流出，目前已接近中性水平，或即将转为净流入。由于 USDC 主要用于 Coinbase 并受到美国投资者青睐，其资金流向通常与比特币走势相近；若净流入恢复，美国资金推动比特币上涨的压力可能重新增强。 https://wublock123.com/news/cryptoquant-analyst-usdc-exchange-net-outflow-near-end-65097
Read more about it from @iampaulgrewal here: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/coinbase-sues-the-sec-settles-dadfbee5?mod=hp_opin_pos_2
The final stage of the native $INJ migration on @coinbase begins today. Following the migration, deposits will again be enabled with unmatched access into the Injective ecosystem for the first time. https://t.co/elVSlarrKa
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
What can an AI agent actually do for $1? Through the new x402 integration from @apify, built on @coinbase's Base network, we no longer have to guess. Autonomous agents can now discover, pay for, and run their own tools directly 🔥 No Apify accounts. No human-managed API keys. The entire workflo
Coinbase exec: Clarity Act nearing final approval, could pass by 2026
SEC agrees to $150Ksettlement with Coinbase over FOIA dispute: WSJ