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Jul 30 ◎

COIN FY2026 Q2 Watch

Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN) FY2026 Q2 Earnings Call

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Alesia Haas

The partnership with Hyperliquid signals that Coinbase is willing to share economics to secure distribution and network effects for USDC, potentially affecting USDC's margin profile.

"we believe that this partnership will drive broader network effect, broader USDC adoption by deeply embedding it in an important player that has a lot of its own market maker activity."

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Brian Armstrong

Management explicitly targets Tether to become the number one stablecoin, indicating an ongoing competitive battle and possibly lower USDC margins in the near term.

"you could say it's number two compared to Tether. So I do think it's important for us to continue sharing economics to grow USDC and get it to be number one across all those categories."

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Brian Armstrong

Coinbase's stablecoin transfer volume on Base is at $32 trillion TTM, cementing its position as the leading L2 for stablecoin payments and agentic finance. — The scale of Base's network effect makes it harder for new L2 entrants like Stripe and Robinhood to compete for liquidity.

"Stripe has launched one and Robinhood has launched one. Some of them are a little bit more special purpose, I guess, in what they're targeting."

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Brian Armstrong

Management is constructive about the future, citing clarity on regulation and continued product diversification (prediction markets, derivatives, international) as growth levers.

"we still think on margin it's better if the Clarity Act passes. It creates durability through multiple administrations. People can make longer-term investments."

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Alesia Haas

AI agents represent a new customer cohort that prioritizes cost and latency over brand loyalty, which could force Coinbase to compete on price for this segment. — The rise of agentic commerce could commoditize trading services, pressuring fees and reducing the 'trust premium' Coinbase currently enjoys.

"we have already met the conditions for the Circle contract to renew, so it will renew on the same terms."

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Brian Armstrong

Coinbase is diversifying revenue away from Bitcoin trading, with Bitcoin's contribution down to 12%, while prediction markets and derivatives are growing. — This shows Coinbase is becoming a more general financial services platform, intensifying competition with traditional brokers like Robinhood.

"They announced that they were expanding deeper into crypto. They recently launched their own L2. How do you view them as a competitor?"

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21:30
May 07 ◎

COIN FY2026 Q1 Watch

Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN) FY2026 Q1 Earnings Call

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Brian Armstrong

Coinbase highlights Anthropic's AI model as a frontier example of AI improving code quality and security, validating Anthropic's technical leadership in the AI safety domain.

"And we saw a glimpse of this recently, actually, with the Mythos model that Anthropic put out, where it's actually able to find security vulnerabilities that 99% plus of human engineers would not have been able to find."

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Brian Armstrong

Leverages Stripe's involvement in the X402 protocol as an industry validation of the standard, which could expand its adoption and drive payment volumes.

"We've subsequently opened this protocol and put it as part of the Linux foundations and lots of other companies have come in to contribute to it and oversee the governance of it, including CloudFlare, AWS, Stripe, Shopify, Google."

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Alicia Haas

Guidance is mixed: while subscription revenue growth is anticipated, the overall tone is tempered by headcount reductions and cost cuts, suggesting a focus on efficiency amid a challenging market rather than aggressive expansion.

"We expect subscription and services revenue in the range of $565 to $645 million with an opportunity for quarter-over-quarter growth."

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Paul Grewal

Regulatory clarity on stablecoin rewards is a key point: the shift to 'activity-based' rewards versus 'passive, deposit-style yield' is expected to protect Coinbase's USDC economics and preserve its partnership with Circle. — This legislative compromise on stablecoin rewards protects a major revenue line for both Coinbase and Circle, likely sustaining their market cap and growth forecasts.

"the contracts that we have in place in Circle are set, and as Alicia has underscored, they auto-renew. So we expect to continue to go forward with our relationship with Circle under those same terms."

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22:30
Feb 12 ◎

COIN FY2025 Q4 Watch

Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN) FY2025 Q4 Earnings Call

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Brian Armstrong

Management is bullish on the long-term direction despite short-term volatility. They highlight diversification of revenue streams through the Everything Exchange and stablecoin adoption, positioning the company to expand the total addressable market beyond just crypto trading. This confidence is supported by record volumes in other asset classes (e.g., commodities) and continued asset inflows even during a market downturn.

"the Everything Exchange in Q4 and are seeing early signs of success. Global trading volume and market share doubled year over year, reaching new all-time highs."

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