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Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins, and Tokenization with CEO Brian Armstrong
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From the tokenization of real-world assets to funding research on anti-aging therapeutics, Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong is focused on solving meta-problems for the benefit of society. Brian joins Elad Gil this episode to discuss the intersections of artificial intelligence, crypto rails, and biotechnology. He details Coinbase’s vision for agentic finance, as well as how Coinbase is becoming the ‘Everything Exchange’, which includes tokenized real-world stocks, stablecoin payment adoption, and prediction markets. Brian also introduces his new venture, New Limit, a company founded to tackle longevity through epigenetic reprogramming, and outlines initial therapeutic programs and the roadmap toward...
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The minimum fee typically on a debit or credit card transaction is about 30 cent fee flat plus the additional percentage. Arguably, it doesn't really work well for anything under a dollar. Certainly, it doesn't make sense to pay 30 cents to send a one cent payment. And I believe the stats we last saw in this are that about like 76 percent of the agenda commerce transactions we're seeing are under 30 cents.
We don't want the AIs to be unbanked. You know, we want to bank the AIs. They deserve financial services as well. The agents themselves are going to have to have their own accounts.
And so we've made some simple tools where with a single command, you just prompt, you paste it into your AI agent, it can now have its own financial account. So it'll be interesting to see
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