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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that regardless of the outcome of the U.S. Senate vote on the Clarity Act on September 15, the cryptocurrency industry will gain regulatory clarity. In an interview with CNBC, he mentioned that if the bill passes, the industry will receive legislative support; even if it does not pass, the SEC and CFTC have indicated their readiness to issue rules, and the industry will still gain regulatory clarity around the time of the vote.The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act aims to establish a federal regulatory framework for cryptocurrency exchanges, brokers, and stablecoins by dividing token regulatory authority between the SEC and CFTC. Armstrong noted that the bill has broad bipartisan and industry support, with law enforcement agencies, banks, and cryptocurrency companies all expressing their backing. Key issues previously raised by Coinbase have been resolved. The only outstanding matter is the ethical provisions concerning elected officials holding digital assets; the White House has proposed a plan that includes strong ethical clauses, while Democrats are pushing for further measures, including mandatory asset divestiture, with both sides nearing a resolution.In response to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's criticism regarding Coinbase's regulatory arbitrage using the bill's stablecoin provisions, Armstrong remarked that critics with large payment businesses are facing "competitive issues" and are "speaking for themselves." He also stated that Goldman Sachs, Bank of New York Mellon, and Fidelity all support the bill.

According to on-chain intelligence platform Arkham, a BTC whale withdrew $461.5 million worth of Bitcoin from Coinbase about two years ago. During the holding period, the maximum unrealized profit reached $315 million, and there was also an unrealized loss of $100 million during the market low in July, but the whale has never chosen to sell.Since August, this whale has transferred $82 million to Kraken and currently still holds $418 million worth of BTC, with an unrealized profit of about $40 million.

Grok, the AI assistant under xAI, posted on X that it is now available for trading and managing portfolios on Coinbase.After users add the Coinbase connector, they can directly ask Grok to check balances, analyze data, and place or cancel trades for any available assets in the chat.

Coinbase announced that it has collaborated with Stanford University cryptography professor Dan Boneh and Localhost Research to hold a closed-door "Post-Quantum Bitcoin Workshop" at Stanford University, gathering Bitcoin developers, cryptography experts, researchers, institutional custodians, and hardware wallet specialists to discuss the technologies and migration plans for Bitcoin to address future quantum computing threats.The workshop focused on assessing the progress of quantum computing, post-quantum cryptography, and various post-quantum signature schemes applicable to Bitcoin, as well as discussing Ethereum's anti-quantum planning, the practical requirements faced by institutional custody businesses, and how to introduce post-quantum security mechanisms for Bitcoin through new output types. Participants believed that rather than predicting when quantum computing will pose a real threat to existing cryptographic systems, it is more important to establish well-tested response plans in advance.Quantum computing does not currently pose an urgent crisis, but the earlier research and coordination begin, the better we can avoid hasty network upgrades and asset migrations under pressure in the future. However, there is currently no consensus on a single post-quantum solution. Different solutions involve trade-offs in terms of security, transaction data size, hardware performance, key management, and the difficulty of user migration. Participants felt that Bitcoin's anti-quantum measures cannot rely solely on protocol layer upgrades, but must also consider how individual users, institutional custodians, wallets, and hardware devices generate, store, back up, and migrate keys and assets.

According to Fortune magazine, the stablecoin payment infrastructure company Latitude has completed a $35 million Series A funding round, led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from NEA, Coinbase, Lightspeed Faction, and OpenFX.The company was co-founded by former executives from Stripe, Uber, Coinbase, and Meta, aiming to help businesses send fiat currency to emerging market users through stablecoins using local payment methods (bank accounts and mobile wallets). Latitude is licensed in 45 U.S. markets and plans to expand its regulatory licenses in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa. The current team consists of 15 people, and the new funds will be used to expand compliance, engineering, and sales teams.

Imran Khan, co-founder of Alliance, stated that Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong and Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev are leveraging their respective backgrounds to carve out different tracks in the cryptocurrency market.Vlad has built Robinhood into a platform centered around retail trading, deeply understanding the psychology and trading motivations of high-risk tolerant retail investors, which will give him an advantage in controlling retail speculation and trading in the future; while Brian has dedicated the past decade to popularizing Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency value system, deeply rooted in the Silicon Valley tech startup ecosystem, which determines that Coinbase and Base are more inclined to build underlying financial infrastructure aimed at changing the real world.Imran believes that although there is overlap in their businesses, the market space is large enough, and one party's activity in speculative trading does not mean the other party will fail. Both will lead millions of new users into the on-chain world from completely different entry points.

Coinbase official account CoinbaseMarkets announced that today Concrete (CT) will be added to the asset roadmap.

The founder of Liebit Mining Pool (B.TOP), Jiang Zhuoer, stated that Bitcoin has just dropped, and the Coinbase Bitcoin premium remains negative, continuing to incur significant losses. It is expected that tomorrow's spot ETF (i.e., the US stock market trading day) will see capital outflows.ETF data is lagging; trading based on ETF data is akin to driving while looking in the rearview mirror. Although it is inconvenient, the inflow and outflow of ETF funds are very important, so we can only keep an eye on it.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale deposited 620,420 LINK (approximately 7.6 million USD) into Coinbase.In the past three weeks, this whale has cumulatively deposited 2,410,000 LINK (approximately 26.04 million USD) into Coinbase, all of which previously came from Binance.

According to CoinDesk, the Bitcoin mortgage product jointly launched by Better Mortgage and Coinbase has been fully launched last week. Borrowers can pledge Bitcoin at a 250% collateral rate to pay for the down payment on a home. For example, to purchase a $500,000 property, one would need to pledge $250,000 in Bitcoin to support a $100,000 down payment. Since the full launch, the pre-application loan scale has reached $360 million, higher than the previous estimated $260 million from the waiting list users.At closing, borrowers will receive two loans: one is a conventional mortgage secured by the property that meets Fannie Mae standards, and the other is a down payment loan secured by pledged Bitcoin and a subordinate lien on the property. Better disclosed that it may re-pledge the Bitcoin pledged by borrowers, as long as an equivalent amount of assets is retained for return. Borrowers cannot retrieve their crypto assets early and must wait until the conventional mortgage is fully repaid or refinanced to recover them, meaning Bitcoin may be locked for up to 15 to 30 years.Unlike typical crypto loans, a drop in Bitcoin prices will not trigger a margin call or automatic liquidation; liquidation of pledged assets may only occur 60 days after the borrower defaults. Coinbase only acts as a custodian and technology provider and does not participate in credit decisions. Currently, the product only supports Bitcoin collateral; both parties mentioned USDC when announced in March but ultimately chose to launch with BTC first.

According to the information released by the SEC, Coinbase (COIN) director Wilson Frederick R sold 10,000 shares of the company's stock on September 1 at an average price of $178.93 per share, with a total value of approximately $1.7893 million. After the transaction, his direct holdings decreased to 187,389 shares.

GMGN data shows that Basecat's market capitalization briefly surpassed 83 million dollars, setting a new historical high, with a 24-hour increase of about 38%, currently reported at 73.4 million dollars. Coinbase has previously launched BASECAT spot trading.

According to on-chain monitoring data from Galaxy Research, from August 29 to September 4, four long-dormant Bitcoin wallets were activated, transferring a total of 202.84 BTC, worth approximately 15.73 million USD.Among them, the largest wallet held 146.06 BTC (approximately 11.31 million USD), which had not been touched since November 2013, holding for nearly 12.8 years, with an unrealized profit of about 12,902% based on a cost price of approximately 595 USD. A wallet that has been dormant since November 2011, holding 40 BTC, is valued at approximately 3.09 million USD, with an average cost of about 3 USD, resulting in an unrealized profit of up to 2,571,899%, allowing the holder to earn over 3 million USD from an initial investment of about 120 USD over nearly 15 years. Additionally, two other wallets transferred 10 BTC (approximately 777,000 USD) and 6.78 BTC (approximately 551,000 USD), respectively.Galaxy marked the transfer of 6.78 BTC as being received by Coinbase, a signal that typically indicates the holder intends to sell rather than simply transfer assets. Some of the activated wallets were tagged with the sender label "Noah Doe," related to New York State's lawsuit declaring thousands of dormant addresses as unclaimed property. Since a judge suspended the proceedings in June, the relevant wallets have shown multiple movements. This wave of awakenings continues the trend observed since this summer, with six wallets previously transferring approximately 40 million USD within ten days in August.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, in the past four hours, a whale withdrew 62,410 HYPE tokens (approximately 5.27 million USD) from Coinbase.In the past week, the wallet has withdrawn a total of 110,370 HYPE tokens (approximately 9.09 million USD) from Coinbase.

Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange, submitted Form 1-N and Form BD-N to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on September 1 through Coinbase Derivatives and Coinbase Financial Markets, respectively, intending to launch single-stock perpetual contracts in the U.S. Coinbase's Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad stated that the next step for the related products still requires approval from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).The two documents pertain to registration as a securities futures exchange and a limited-purpose securities futures broker. Since March 20, Coinbase has been offering 10x perpetual contracts for stocks such as Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla to non-U.S. users, settled in USDC and supporting 24/7 trading. U.S. users were previously explicitly excluded from this product.

Coinbase posted on the X platform stating that the company is working to launch single-stock perpetual contracts in the United States. This week, Coinbase has submitted notification registration documents to the SEC for its derivatives exchange and brokerage and will work closely with the SEC and CFTC to bring more major financial products to the U.S. market.

According to OnchainLens monitoring, a certain HYPE whale has withdrawn a total of 824,350 HYPE from Coinbase in the past 17 hours, equivalent to approximately 67.52 million USD.This wallet has now withdrawn approximately 865,840 HYPE from Coinbase, with a total value of about 70.64 million USD.

According to The Block, Coinbase has appointed Anthony Armstrong as a board member and has joined the Audit and Compliance Committee. Anthony Armstrong previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of xAI, X.AI Corp, and X Corp, and worked at Morgan Stanley for nearly a decade as Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, later joining the U.S. Department of Efficiency (DOGE) as a Senior Advisor. Coinbase praised him for his "excellent track record in efficient execution and his ability to build scalable operational systems."With this appointment, the Coinbase board has increased from 9 to 10 members. SEC filings reveal that Anthony Armstrong has no familial relationship with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.

The U.S. primary election season is nearing its end, and the cryptocurrency industry's super political action committee (PAC) has achieved victories in several key districts. Supported by major contributors such as Coinbase, Ripple, and a16z, Fairshake has helped approximately 50 candidates win nominations, including Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Jake Auchincloss, as well as Republican Senate candidates Barry Moore from Alabama, Andy Barr from Kentucky, Kevin Hern from Oklahoma, and Harriet Hageman from Wyoming. Prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi indicate that these candidates have a winning probability of over 94% in the general election.Fairshake spokesperson Geoff Vetter stated that the organization has reserved $122 million for the fall elections. However, Fairshake also faced its biggest setback in Illinois, spending over $10 million in an attempt to prevent Democrat Juliana Stratton from securing the nomination but was unsuccessful. Additionally, the Fellowship PAC, supported by Cantor Fitzgerald and Anchorage Digital, has actually spent about $11 million, far less than the previously claimed $100 million; the Digital Freedom Fund, funded by the Winklevoss brothers with $21 million, has yet to engage in support for specific candidates.

According to a report from the official Coinbase blog, Coinbase has officially launched regulated derivative contracts for qualified Canadian traders through its subsidiary Coinbase Financial Markets (CFM), becoming the first major crypto platform to offer native crypto futures in Canada.The products include 23 types of perpetual and fixed-term futures such as Bitcoin, ETH, SOL, as well as 5 types of commodity futures including gold/silver/oil and COIN50 index futures, supporting up to 10x leverage. All contracts are provided by CFTC-registered futures commission merchant CFM, with limited-time fees as low as 0.02% per transaction + $0.11 per contract.Previously, Canadian investors lacked regulated crypto derivative channels and had long relied on offshore or unregulated platforms.