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Coinbase on BriefTechNews.comhttps://brief-tech-news.com/tags/coinbase/Recent content in Coinbase on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright ©2021 <br> Designed & Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:11:19 +0000Kalshi Eyes $40B Valuation, Stripe Preps Tempo, and Apple Pay Lands in Indiahttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-01-fintech/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:11:19 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-01-fintech/Kalshi is in talks to raise $1 billion at a staggering $40 billion valuation as prediction markets transition into full-scale financial exchanges. Apple Pay finally landed in India via an Axis Bank partnership, targeting credit card transactions across Apple hardware. Meanwhile, Stripe revealed details about Tempo, its dedicated settlement chain for internet money movement, and Citi linked its virtual account infrastructure to Coinbase to let corporate treasuries shuttle seamlessly between fiat and stablecoins.SEC Says Decentralized Buybacks Aren't Securities, Coinbase Gets Clearing Licensehttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-30-crypto/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:20:37 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-30-crypto/The SEC ruled that decentralized token buybacks don’t trigger Howey classification, a direct response to a16z’s Miles Jennings and a green light for on-chain buyback programs. Coinbase became the second crypto exchange to win CFTC derivatives clearing approval, completing its regulated stack. Chainlink’s CCIP 2.0 with Ethlabs’ FCR cut cross-chain confirmations from 13 minutes to 12-24 seconds. Proof launched a testnet for event-contingent derivatives, and a new paper proposes Zcash-style private transfers on Bitcoin L1 via OP_RETURN.Ramp's AR Push, Muse Buys on Shopify, and the CLARITY Act's Deathhttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-24-fintech/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:12:57 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-24-fintech/Ramp launched Accounts Receivable to close the contract-to-cash loop, going head-to-head with the ERP integrations that slow down collections. Shopify will let Meta’s Muse agent buy through Shop Pay, while Amazon blocks it, and Stripe is wiring its Link wallet into AI bots. Coinbase is handing US retail IPO allocations starting with Oura, and the CLARITY Act’s 49-50 Senate defeat pushes crypto rulemaking to the SEC and CFTC. SoFi became the first US bank to settle a $25 billion card program on stablecoins across Mastercard.Nasdaq Puts $100M Into Kraken at $21B - and Sells It Tokenized Stockshttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-14-crypto/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:19:41 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-14-crypto/Nasdaq Ventures dropped $100 million into Kraken parent Payward at a $21 billion valuation, then agreed to let Kraken distribute Nasdaq-tokenized stocks with real voting rights under a framework targeting a Q2 2027 launch. Coinbase and Moov are wiring stablecoin rails into 1,000+ US community banks ahead of a Senate CLARITY Act vote, while MoneyGram launched a stablecoin-backed Visa card in Colombia. AI bots now make up roughly 60% of HTTP requests on Cloudflare’s network, breaking the ad-supported web economy and pushing per-request micropayment rails. EtherFi is rolling out a three-tier timelock system for its Cash contracts, and Caroline Ellison has taken a full-time job at EA funding platform Manifund.MetaMask Goes Independent, Hunter Biden's LAPTOP Token Crashes 99%https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-11-crypto/Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:24:44 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-11-crypto/MetaMask spun out as an independent company and launched Transaction Shield, an opt-in feature covering up to $10,000 per month for deemed-safe transactions, while also adding perpetuals trading on mobile. Hunter Biden airdropped 4,276 LAPTOP tokens on Base to Substack subscribers, briefly worth $1.3 million per wallet before crashing over 99% to near $2, leaving over 80% of the 11,500+ buyers in the red. Coinbase launched Bazaar MCP, a discovery marketplace for AI agents to find, price, and pay for tools via x402. Solana’s SIMD 96 went live, shifting inflation to a dynamic rate based on staking ratios, with SIMD 123 on priority fee sharing months away.Liquid Network Freezes After $320M Hack; Solana's Agent Micropayment Test Hits 1M/sechttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-07-crypto/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:21:40 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-07-crypto/The Bitcoin sidechain Liquid Network went dark over the weekend after roughly 4,000 BTC ($320M) was withdrawn by purported white-hat hackers using the SideSwap Peg-out Authorization Key - while Liquid insists that key itself was not compromised. Blockstream paused the network and exchanges froze LBTC deposits. Meanwhile, Solana’s new Payment Channels primitive for AI agent micropayments hit a claimed 1 million payments per second in benchmarking, with Alibaba Cloud live on day one. Coinbase is filing SEC and CFTC registrations to bring single stock perpetual futures onshore, BitGo is acquiring NYDIG’s trading arm for $42.5M, and Harmony announced it is shutting down its L1 blockchain entirely. Bitcoin ETFs added $987M in weekly inflows.Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B, Anthropic shops a $10B revolver, and Klarna loses a quarter of its valuehttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-fintech/Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:33:59 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-27-fintech/Klarna shares fell nearly 25% after a Germany warning highlighted how thin US trading liquidity can punish foreign fintechs. Stripe closed its largest-ever acquisition, taking OpenRouter and its eight million users behind one API, while telling investors staying private is now a strategic advantage. Anthropic is lining up a $10B+ revolving credit facility ahead of an IPO that could match SpaceX’s $75B raise, and Google Cloud, Revolut and Coinbase each shipped new AI or tokenization infrastructure for finance.Coinbase puts Apple, NVIDIA and Google onchain, and five L2s admit their feeshttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-crypto/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:11:47 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-26-crypto/Coinbase went live with tokenized NVDA, AAPL, META and GOOGL on Base under the B20 standard, posting $4.55M in day-one onchain value and $10.8M in 24-hour volume across ~50 protocols. AI agents are now a distinct crypto user cohort paying in stablecoins, with Coinbase calling it the “Napster era” of machine commerce. Kinetiq is launching Elysium, an L2 that drops USDC gas for HYPE and targets block-time parity with Hyperliquid’s HyperCore. Gauntlet detailed its risk-aware Aria agent, which has triaged 450+ alerts and gated every production change behind one or two human approvals. A separate teardown showed five new L2s raised $1.06B but burned through only $2.5M in chain fees combined.Bitcoin tags $71K on $517M ETF day, Clarity Act gets an Oval Office pushhttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-21-crypto/Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:23:28 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-21-crypto/Bitcoin broke $71,000 after spot ETFs pulled in $517 million on August 19, the largest single-day haul in months, and a separate $189 million flooded into ethereum products as the broader rally torched $2.7 billion of short positions. Ethereum added 18% on the same move. In Washington, Trump hosted a CEO-heavy Oval Office meeting to push the Clarity Act toward a September 15 procedural vote, and COIN, CRCL, and BLSH each jumped roughly 8 to 10% on the optimism. The technical beat was heavier: Tempo shipped a Touch-ID-gated authorization layer for agentic CI/CD, and an ethresear.ch post proposed a bridge-free cross-chain exchange model that would have made the 2022 bridge heists structurally impossible.