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BREAKING: Coinbase introduces AI adviser, stock options, and pre-IPO markets in finance push

Coinbase doesn't want to be your crypto app anymore.

It wants to be your everything.

At a "System Update" event in Manhattan on Tuesday, the company laid out what it's openly calling the "Everything Exchange."

The pitch: one account that replaces your broker, your advisor, and your bank.

The feature list is enormous. We’re talking tokenized stocks, options on both crypto and equities, pre-IPO markets, prediction markets, an AI investing assistant, Bitcoin rewards, and borrowing against your staked Solana. (Take a breath…)

But the centrepiece is tokenized stocks.

Coinbase says these will be backed one-to-one by real US shares, fully ownable, tradeable and redeemable onchain, with dividends paid out automatically.

Armstrong's whole pitch is that you "own an actual piece of the company onchain." No derivatives, no IOUs.

Most tokenized-stock products today are messier than they sound.

Some are synthetic, some are glorified IOUs, and plenty hand you price exposure without the ownership rights a real share gives you.

If Coinbase can make a token feel like genuine ownership instead of a crypto wrapper around Wall Street, that's a far stronger use case than another speculative listing.

One catch worth flagging though. It's launching outside the US first, with American access still stuck behind regulators.

So a big chunk of the audience can't touch it yet…

But why is Coinbase doing this?

When a company bolts on stocks, options, AI advice, prediction markets, cards and lending all at once, it starts to look less like a strategy and more like a company racing to be everything before anyone else gets there.

There's a defensive angle too.

Coinbase's revenue still lives and dies with crypto trading volume. When the market's hot, fees look great. When it's quiet, the pressure to diversify gets loud.

It's also telling that this drops days after the SpaceX IPO chaos. Coinbase is already rolling out tokenized SpaceX shares, with names like Anthropic and OpenAI reportedly next in line.

So the bigger story isn't the feature list.

It's that crypto exchanges no longer want to live off just crypto.

They want to be the front door to all of finance.

The open question is whether anyone actually wants one app for all of it, or whether Coinbase is about to find out why Wall Street's boring plumbing is so hard to replace. 🚀

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When an asset hits a level it has never touched in its entire history, you pay attention. Michaël van de Poppe just flagged exactly that for Ethereum.

Van de Poppe is a well-known crypto trader, analyst, and founder of MN Capital, followed by hundreds of thousands for his technical work.

Here's what he posted:

That's the setup. The lowest daily RSI ever recorded for Ethereum. Not the lowest this year. Not the lowest this cycle. Ever.

For the uninitiated, RSI (Relative Strength Index) measures how overbought or oversold an asset is.

A low reading means an asset has been beaten down to an extreme. And ETH just printed the most extreme oversold reading in its entire history.

He followed up with the part that matters:

His point is simple but powerful. Every previous time the daily RSI hit historic lows combined with a capitulation, it marked a generational buying opportunity. The people who bought those moments saw massive returns.

The sentiment matches. Fear hitting lows that have never been seen. Price beaten to extremes that have never been printed. And a setup that, historically, has only ever resolved one way.

This lines up with everything else we're tracking.

Maximum pain. Maximum opportunity. Same moment. 📉

Today we’ll be taking a look the overall stablecoin supply.

Stablecoins are the backbone of crypto liquidity, used for seamless trading and instant cross-border transactions.

The chart below tracks the aggregate change in the total stablecoin market cap.

$266.91 billion in stablecoins now sit on-chain. (Two weeks ago: $269.70 billion)

Down $2.79 billion in a fortnight - and this is now the second straight contraction of that size.

Last period supply shed $2.71 billion. This time, $2.79 billion. Back-to-back drawdowns of nearly identical weight… that's no longer a blip. The steady growth that ran through spring has stalled.

And the year-to-date cushion has basically evaporated. A fortnight ago, supply was still up around $1.77 billion on the year. Now it's actually a touch below where 2026 began.

When risk appetite fades, stablecoins tend to drain with it.

Still, some perspective: $266.91 billion is a massive pool of on-chain capital, and two soft fortnights don't undo a year of building.

But two in a row changes the question. A pause inside a bigger expansion… or the early stage of a real unwind? Next fortnight's print matters more than usual. 🔥

Crypto Exchange Binance Will Be Rejected for EU Regulatory License: Reuters. Binance says it believes it is compliant, but a Reuters report says the exchange is likely to lose EU access.

Here is why Strategy's dividend-paying crypto stock is crashing to near-historic lows. Strategy’s bitcoin-backed preferred stock remains well below par as dividend-coverage worries pressure the treasury-stock model.

Crypto PAC has $12M stake in Senate primary runoff as Alabama voters head to polls. Defend American Jobs has spent heavily in Alabama’s Republican Senate race, keeping crypto money visible in U.S. election politics.

Pump.fun activity craters 80% in three months, dragging Solana fees lower as traders rotate into perps. The memecoin-launchpad slowdown is now showing up in Solana fee pressure as traders shift toward perpetuals.

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