Coinbase’s Everything Exchange: Agentic Finance, Stablecoins, and Tokenization with CEO Brian Armstrong

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 clinical trials.  

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Chapters:

00:00 – Cold Open Trailer

00:45 – Brian Armstrong Introduction

01:13 – Coinbase and the Everything Exchange

05:52 – Agentic Commerce

10:00 – AI and Crypto

10:49 – AI Inside Coinbase

15:39 – Productivity and Company Size

17:26 – The Everything Exchange and Tokenization

20:53 – Prediction Markets

23:15 – Introducing New Limit

34:17 – Looking Forward Five Years

40:24 – Special Economic Zones

44:26 – Conclusion