Recent Tweets by brian_armstrong

Our institutional team is crushing it - two awesome stats from our QBR this week: 1) 8 of the top 10 publicly traded companies with BTC on their balance sheet use Coinbase Prime. 2) There's $140B of crypto in US ETFs, and 81% of that is stored with Coinbase. We’re tracking > 50 new ETF filings since the beginning of year. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Mentioned on : 06/27/2025

Good example of the type of work we're doing @coinbase to reduce account restrictions, while keeping our customers safe. Important to the find the right balance! Thank you @dorvonlevi and the Platform team for the hard work on this.

Mentioned on : 06/27/2025

@yugacohler Your post is better with the hashtag removed. It's too bad it no longer adds the Bitcoin emoji.

Mentioned on : 06/26/2025

1/ I'm sharing the 10 ideas I'm most excited about in crypto right now. If you're building something in crypto or thinking about doing so - check it out. We’re building lots at Coinbase, but we don't have time to tackle everything. So I figured I'd share these. Bear markets are the best time for building - why not start today?

Mentioned on : 08/30/2023

We're buying more Bitcoin every week. Long #Bitcoin

Mentioned on : 06/26/2025

You asked for it, we built it. Perpetual-style crypto futures are coming to the US on July 21. Starting with $BTC and $ETH. No quarterly expiration, available 24/7, with spot price tracking. Fully CFTC compliant. Only available on Coinbase 🫡

Mentioned on : 06/26/2025

My talk from our State of Crypto Summit in New York. See the other product talks on X via the @coinbase account or on YouTube.

Mentioned on : 06/25/2025

Today, Bitcoin's market cap of ~$2T represents about 11% of gold's market cap of ~$18T. Bitcoin is a better form of money. It has the decentralization and scarcity of gold, but better divisibility, portability, and (i think) even fungibility. It's relatively harder to tell if gold is pure, or contains some lead in the middle of the bar. All this leads me to believe that any country with Gold reserves, should be holding at least 11% of that amount in Bitcoin reserves. And I believe in the next 5-10 years Bitcoin's market cap will likely surpass Gold. So these reserves should grow to exceed Gold. If the US leads here with a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, I think many of the G20 will follow. Coinbase is available to help any country that wishes to do so. Get in touch.

Mentioned on : 01/23/2025

Phase 1: Crypto as an investment platform. We started with Bitcoin, listed more assets, and are now seeing the tokenization of real-world assets. Last year, RWA tokenization was up over 200x, with $20 billion now on-chain.

Mentioned on : 06/20/2025

Phase 2: Updating financial services. Take back control of your money. We're not just putting a new UI on old rails. We're building a new financial system from the ground up: new rails, new money, and new services like Bitcoin-backed loans using DeFi and stablecoin payments.

Mentioned on : 06/20/2025

While Bitcoin is a store of value, stablecoins are the medium of exchange. The stablecoin market cap is up 50%+ year-over-year, uncorrelated with crypto trading volume. This is crypto's next daily use case, and it's just the beginning.

Mentioned on : 06/20/2025

At Coinbase, we're focused on driving crypto adoption and growing the total addressable market. We've always believed this would happen in three phases (below).

Mentioned on : 06/20/2025

It's no coincidence Bitcoin prices are at all-time highs. People are turning to Bitcoin as a refuge from inflation and deficit spending. It will ultimately be a check and balance on this activity. If this continues, Bitcoin could become the next world reserve currency.

Mentioned on : 06/20/2025

Great to see progress on powering regulated use cases with USDC on Coinbase. This is the first time we’ll see USDC used as collateral in US futures markets - and we will work closely with the CFTC to make this happen.

Mentioned on : 06/18/2025

If you bought $100 of Bitcoin when Coinbase was founded in June 2012, it would now be worth about $1,500,000. If you kept the $100 USD you'd only be able to purchase about $73 worth of goods today. Bitcoin is the best performing asset of the last 12 years, and it's still early days. Every government, especially those looking to create a hedge against inflation, should create a Bitcoin strategic reserve. Happy Bitcoin $100k day.

Mentioned on : 12/04/2024

Get early access to the Coinbase Bitcoin Card. Up to 4% cash back in Bitcoin on every purchase. Genesis block with “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks” on every card 💙

Mentioned on : 06/12/2025

Bitcoin could be the reserve currency of the world.

Mentioned on : 06/12/2025

#Bitcoin

Mentioned on : 06/07/2025

Account freezing has been a major issue at Coinbase for longer than is acceptable. I could list a bunch of the underlying reasons why it got so bad in the first place, but what's more important is that we've made it a priority to fix, and we have been making good progress. Shout out to @dorvonlevi and the whole team working on this. The issue has been reduced by 82% so far, with more improvements coming. We'll keep you updated as further improvements roll out. But if your account is still restricted (not for sanctioned or illegal activity) please DM @coinbasesupport and we'll prioritize getting it looked at ASAP.

Mentioned on : 06/06/2025

Sorry for the annoying experience - looks like the team is reviewing and will report back shortly. You're right btw, centralized exchanges have to follow all kinds of financial regulations, and so we're often not just trying to keep customers happy, we're trying to keep regulators happy. These are sometimes in conflict, which is why I suspect the most regulated industries have lower NPS scores. In the name of consumer protection, they accidentally end up harming consumers. Of course centralized exchanges also have many other benefits, like ensuring people don't lose their coins, acting as onramps, etc so it's a trade off. Luckily, we have an amazing self-custodial wallet @CoinbaseWallet also if you prefer that route. And account recovery mechanisms are getting better and better there, like the Smart Wallet tech we recently shipped. As more and more transaction go from fiat-to-crypto to crypto-to-crypto, self-custodial wallets will be the primary app for many folks. So both serve an important function, and we'll keep improving both. Again, sorry for the experience - should be resolved soon.

Mentioned on : 06/06/2025

If the electorate doesn't hold congress accountable to reducing the deficit, and start paying down the debt, Bitcoin is going to take over as reserve currency. I love Bitcoin, but a strong America is also super important for the world. We need to get our finances under control.

Mentioned on : 06/04/2025