Bank of America (BofA) has upgraded Coinbase (COIN) to a "buy" rating, pointing to the exchange's growing ambitions beyond crypto trading and its increasingly diversified business model. In a research note published Thursday, BofA analyst Craig Siegenthaler highlighted Coinbase’s pivot toward becoming an “everything exchange” — a single app where users could one day trade stocks, buy crypto, make peer-to-peer payments and even wager on prediction markets. The company detailed some of these plans at a pr ...

Bank of America has reset its forecast for the cryptocurrency company, Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN), after it evaluated the exchange's positioning for 2026. Launched by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam in 2012, Coinbase operates the largest crypto exchange in the U.S. The company went public in 2021 and made it to the S&P 500 index in May 2025. Related: Bank of America recommends adding up to 4% of ‘gold rival’ BofA hails Coinbase's 'everything exchange' goal Bank of America's research analyst Craig Siegenth ...

Bank of America analysts upgraded Coinbase to “Buy” from “Neutral” on Thursday, describing the exchange as a leader in tokenization that stands to benefit from its own blockchain network. Without changing their price target of $340 per share, the bank’s analysts wrote in a note that the exchange’s outlook improved following its debut of several products last month. Stock trading and predication markets are among those that could broaden revenue, they wrote. Still, as asset managers grow increasingly intere ...

Crypto exchange Coinbase is aiming to scale up its stablecoin offerings and increase onchain adoption worldwide in 2026, according to CEO and founder Brian Armstrong. In New Year’s Day tweet, Armstrong declared that the company’s overarching aim is to make Coinbase “the #1 financial app in the world.” The post unpacked how Coinbase aims to move closer to this goal in 2026, with the company focusing on scaling stablecoins and payments, while also expanding its presence globally in crypto, equities, predi ...

格隆汇1月2日｜Coinbase首席执行官Brian Armstrong在X平台表示，2026年的首要任务是在全球范围内 发展全能交易平台(涵盖加密货币、股票、预测市场、大宗商品)；扩展稳定币和支付业务；通过 Coinbase Developer Platform、Base和Base App将世界带入链上；还将大力投资于产品质量和自动化，以 支持上述各项工作。 ...

In an industry well-accustomed to flash and self-promotion, Ethereum has long seemed an outlier. The network’s builders have historically focused on technical accomplishments and an ideal of decentralization so pure, critics say, that they can sometimes lose sight of the bigger economic and political picture. But this year, amidst seismic regulatory developments for the crypto industry, Ethereum has stealthily made huge inroads in arenas it long was perceived to have neglected. From Wall Street board rooms ...

Geneva, Switzerland--(Newsfile Corp. - December 19, 2025) - TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), today announced the integration of TRON with Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 network incubated by Coinbase. Enabled by LayerZero, the integration allows TRX, TRON's native utility token, to be seamlessly bridged to the Base network. As a result, users can access TRX directly within the ...

Falcon Finance announced the deployment of USDf, its $2.1 billion multi-asset synthetic dollar, on Coinbase-backed Layer 2 network Base, introducing a new “universal collateral” asset. The integration allows users to bridge USDf from Ethereum to Base and access some of the most competitive yields among major yield-bearing stable assets, as onchain activity across the network reaches record levels. The launch comes as Base continues to consolidate its position as a core hub for decentralized finance and ...

Key Takeaways: Coinbase has teased a major announcement scheduled for Dec. 17, with few details disclosed so far. Market speculation points to a possible entry into prediction markets, potentially in partnership with Kalshi. Coinbase’s access to US users could give it an edge in a sector that has struggled with liquidity. Recent backlash around the Monad token launch has made parts of the community more skeptical. Polymarket still leads the prediction markets space, but a Coinbase entry could resh ...

Solana captured 26.79% of global interest in blockchain-specific narratives throughout 2025, securing its position as the most popular crypto ecosystem for the second consecutive year despite facing mounting competition and declining market share. Base and Ethereum rounded out the top three positions while newer entrants like Sui and BNB Chain surged into prominence, according to CoinGecko’s latest blockchain ecosystem analysis. The layer-1 network’s market share dropped 12.0 percentage points from 38.79 ...