Coinbase used its June 16 “Take Control” Product Showcase to unveil 21 new products in one sitting. Brian Armstrong framed the bundle as a step toward becoming the “Everything Exchange.” The company wants to host equities, derivatives, prediction markets, credit, and AI agents inside one platform. Coinbase published the announcement on its corporate blog and live-streamed the event through investor relations. Notably, the rollout marks the largest single-day product expansion in the exchange’s history. Each pillar of the launch maps to a specific consumer or developer pain point, from U.S. derivatives access to mortgage financing.
The strategy reflects a sharp pivot from the company’s Bitcoin-only origins. Additionally, it stakes a claim against brokerages like Robinhood and Schwab in the broader financial services market. Coinbase now intends to serve as a primary financial hub for crypto-native users and traditional investors alike.
We started as a place to buy Bitcoin, now we power your entire financial life.
— Coinbase 🛡️ (@coinbase) June 16, 2026
Here’s everything we announced today ↓
→ Tokenized Stocks
→ Pre-IPO Perps
→ Stock options
→ Crypto options
→ Perpetual-style equity indices
→ Crypto derivatives, back in America
→ Time-based… pic.twitter.com/fuNWPmwMU5
Tokenized Stocks, Pre-IPO Perps, and U.S. Derivatives Return
Coinbase will support trading in major U.S. stocks, ETFs, and market indexes inside its app. Users can transfer existing equity portfolios into Coinbase from outside brokerages. Initially, the company offers a curated list of large-cap stocks and ETFs. However, Coinbase plans to expand the catalog to thousands of names over the coming months. Stock options and crypto options now run through infrastructure inherited from the Deribit acquisition.
The derivatives stack expands further with pre-IPO perpetual futures. For example, Coinbase recently introduced a SpaceX-related contract that executives cited as effective for price discovery. Future candidates include Anthropic and OpenAI perpetuals. Meanwhile, thematic perpetual indices like AI10, China10, Defense10, and Tech100 give traders basket exposure with crypto-style mechanics. Importantly, CFTC approval allows Coinbase to offer perpetual-style futures contracts in the United States for the first time. As a result, products previously limited to international markets return to American users.
Time-Based Prediction Markets, Combos, and the Kalshi Partnership
Prediction markets sit at the center of Coinbase’s bid for engagement. Specifically, the company partnered with regulated platform Kalshi to source order flow for event markets. Users can wager on elections, interest rate decisions, sports outcomes, and macro events. Additionally, Coinbase launched crypto binary markets where users predict price direction over short windows. These windows can run as tight as 15 minutes for BTC, ETH, and SOL.
The new “Combos” feature lets users bundle multiple forecasts into a single multi-leg position. For instance, a trader could combine an interest rate prediction with a BTC price call. Furthermore, the prediction product spans economics, politics, and financial markets in one interface. The Kalshi integration mirrors Robinhood’s distribution model, with Coinbase acting as the consumer-facing front-end.
Coinbase Advisor, Agents, and the x402 Agentic Stack
Coinbase Advisor enters the app as an SEC-registered AI investment advisor. Notably, it delivers personalized portfolio recommendations across crypto, equities, and prediction markets. The tool surfaces real-time news, market context, and asset-allocation strategies. However, it does not execute trades automatically and instead suggests strategies for the user to approve.
Coinbase for Agents lets any AI agent connect to a user’s account through Base MCP and the x402 protocol. Base MCP, which launched in late May, allows agents like ChatGPT and Claude to swap tokens, send funds, and interact with DeFi protocols using plain-language chat. Meanwhile, x402 functions as a micro-payment standard for AI agents, processing fractions-of-a-cent payments for APIs and data feeds. As of the announcement, x402 has processed more than 169 million payments. Additionally, AWS integrated x402 into Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments and AWS WAF Bot Control. Coinbase and Cloudflare also announced plans to launch the x402 Foundation to govern the standard.
Consumer Finance: USDC Card, BTC Travel Rewards, Mortgages, and Staked Asset Loans
The Coinbase One Card now accepts USDC deposits between $500 and $5,000 as collateral. As a result, the card extends credit access to users who do not qualify for traditional underwriting. Additionally, Coinbase launched a Booking.com partnership that returns 5% in Bitcoin on flights, hotels, and rental cars. The travel portal replaces conventional airline miles with crypto-denominated rewards.
Crypto-backed mortgages anchor the consumer finance push through a Fannie Mae and Better partnership. Specifically, borrowers can pledge Bitcoin or USDC as collateral to fund a down payment without selling. Importantly, these mortgages carry no margin calls or top-up requirements if BTC drops in value. Liquidation only triggers after 60 days of payment delinquency, mirroring conventional mortgage terms. Furthermore, Coinbase extended borrowing against staked ETH up to $1 million through cbETH collateral. Borrowing against staked SOL via JitoSOL caps at $100,000. New liquidation-protection tools let users set automatic top-up thresholds before forced sales occur. Finally, Transfer Protections add address screening and scam warnings to outgoing transactions.
Welcome to the brand new Coinbase Developer Platform.
— Coinbase 🛡️ (@coinbase) June 16, 2026
A single access point to build with our wallet infrastructure, payment capabilities, trading systems and stablecoin issuance.
All unified by a simple approach to webhooks, billing, and treasury management
Now also… pic.twitter.com/C1CWIdnCHk
Base App, B20 Standard, Coinbase Developer Platform, and a Unified Liquidity Pool
The infrastructure layer ties the entire stack together. Coinbase merged its U.S. and international trading liquidity into a single global pool covering spot and derivatives. As a result, the new Coinbase Advanced platform operates as a modular trading interface with deeper liquidity and improved execution. Developers gain access to a refreshed Coinbase Developer Platform with unified APIs for wallets, payments, swaps, staking, and on-ramps. Additionally, the full-stack Coinbase Payments solution targets merchants seeking global stablecoin settlement through a single integration.
Base headlines the on-chain side of the announcement. Specifically, the Base App now runs on web alongside mobile and supports multichain assets across the broader ecosystem. The new B20 token standard enables any asset to launch natively on Base with built-in compatibility for utility, stablecoin, and security token designs. Furthermore, private transactions for enterprises on Base address institutional confidentiality requirements. Jesse Pollak’s team also continues exploring a native Base network token, though the launch timeline remains unannounced. Collectively, the Base updates position the network as the settlement layer for Coinbase’s broader financial stack.
Why the Take Control Showcase Matters
Coinbase compressed years of product roadmap into a single afternoon. The bundle attacks several markets simultaneously, from equity brokerages to AI agent infrastructure to mortgage origination. Importantly, the unified liquidity pool and CFTC approval signal that U.S. crypto derivatives have meaningfully reopened. Meanwhile, the consumer credit and mortgage products tie crypto holdings to real-world borrowing power. The Base App and B20 standard push more financial activity onto a single network controlled by Coinbase. As a result, the company is no longer competing only with other exchanges. It is now competing with Robinhood, Charles Schwab, Rocket Mortgage, and any AI agent platform that needs a wallet.
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