Trump's new executive order directs the Federal Reserve to evaluate giving crypto firms direct access to Fedwire — the same payment rails that process trillions in bank transfers daily. Ripple, Anchorage, and Coinbase are next in line.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is accusing the OCC of illegally granting national trust bank charters to nine crypto giants including Coinbase, Ripple, Circle, and Paxos — and demanding all communications between OCC officials and the Trump family by June 1.
Less than a year after launching USDH, Hyperliquid is sunsetting its native stablecoin and making Coinbase the official treasury deployer for $5 billion in USDC. The hottest DeFi exchange just went full centralized on its settlement layer.
Coinbase just cut 14% of its workforce — 700 jobs gone in a single day. CEO Brian Armstrong didn't just explain the layoffs. He warned every company in America that AI is coming for their headcount too.
The CLARITY Act stablecoin yield compromise bans 'hold and earn' stablecoin rewards in the US. Coinbase backed the deal anyway. Here's the multi-billion dollar calculation behind that decision.
Coinbase's x402 protocol just launched an app store where AI agents autonomously buy Bloomberg data, AWS compute, and trading APIs with USDC — no human approval required. 165 million transactions have already settled.
Wisconsin's AG filed two separate lawsuits on April 23 targeting Kalshi, Coinbase, Robinhood, Polymarket, and Crypto.com — using the platforms' own marketing copy against them in a case that could reach the Supreme Court.
Brian Armstrong killed the CLARITY Act in January, then blocked it again in February. Today the Senate returned from Easter recess, and Armstrong is suddenly its biggest cheerleader. Here's what changed, and why the next 3 weeks decide whether US crypto law happens in 2026 or not at all.
Coinbase received conditional OCC approval for a national trust charter — making America's biggest crypto exchange a federally regulated custodian. This is the regulatory milestone the industry has chased for a decade.