2026.06.18 01:28

Jesse Pollak (@jessepollak), Creator of Base says "We're basically seeing every asset in the world get tokenized on Base." "Everyone is replacing their legacy financial back with stablecoins, & they're doing it on Base." "One of the hardest challenges has been figuring out how do you build a decentralized blockchain inside of a big centralized public company. That's not easy. If you look at the track record of other folks doing that, no one else has done that. Some people are trying to do it right now, but they're just getting started after us being three or four years in. Being on the edge there and figuring out how do we manage the regulatory side, how do we manage the ecosystem side so it feels like Coinbase is one player among many in building this entire decentralized economy—that's been a real challenge. But I also think it's our biggest opportunity. Base has this very unique upside of having the trust that comes with Coinbase, the expertise that comes with Coinbase, and the distribution that comes with Coinbase, while also having this incredibly rich decentralized ecosystem that I think everyone is starting to participate in." "One of the things that has made all this possible is @brian_armstrong. Having a visionary founder & CEO who so deeply believes in decentralization and has basically been willing to go to bat at every single point to say: "We are going to build the blockchain for global finance, and we're going to decentralize it, and we're gonna make it something that everyone can benefit from." That has enabled us to work through every hard decision & make Base the best possible place it can be."

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Molly O’Shea@MollySOShea

2026.06.17 17:12

NEW: Inside Coinbase's Latest System Update "We don't F around" What it really takes to build the 'everything exchange,' from: strategy, brand, legal, & the chain it all runs on BTS with @coinbase: - CEO Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) - CMO Cat Ferdon (@catferdon) - VP of Legal Molly Abraham (@mtothekg) - Head of Base Jesse Pollak (@jessepollak) Timestamps 00:00 Welcome to System Update 00:34 Coinbase MCP: any AI agent can trade your account in plain English 00:53 Coinbase Advisor, the SEC-registered AI agent, and accounts for agents 01:19 Reaching 4 billion unbrokered people 02:10 The everything exchange, explained 02:47 Operating through four crypto cycles 03:54 Brian's hottest take: the agentic economy 04:29 Why AI agents need crypto rails, not banks 05:09 How many agents Coinbase runs today 05:51 Arbitraging AI costs: 80% of work to 99% cheaper models 07:07 Onshoring global liquidity 07:48 Cat Ferdon on reaching 4 billion users 08:37 Marketing through booms and busts 09:32 The biggest misconceptions about crypto 10:00 The campaigns: Subway Surfers and the NPC ad 11:11 Lessons from Cash App + Hot take: "you can't buy aura" 12:17 Molly Abraham on working with Brian in a regulated environment 13:05 Launching real tokenized securities the hard way 13:43 USDC, Circle, and stablecoins as the killer app 14:50 Suing the government and the open SEC and CFTC 15:10 How AI changes legal, and token maxing by Tuesday 16:40 Jesse Pollak: Base becomes the biggest blockchain in 5 years 17:25 Building a decentralized chain inside a public company 18:44 Base's biggest use cases: trading, payments, and agents 19:10 Tokenized equities and real agent businesses on Base

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