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Brian Armstrong

Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Coinbase Global

Search every verified Brian Armstrong interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Brian Armstrong, co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, has been active in public discussions about cryptocurrency regulation, market trends, and the company's product expansions. In September 2026, he spoke extensively about the Clarity Act, a bill Coinbase lobbied for that failed to pass a Senate vote. Armstrong described the failed draft as a good bill and attributed its defeat to disagreements over ethics provisions, stating that the White House had offered restrictions on elected officials issuing or promoting tokens, but some Democrats sought stronger measures. He expressed optimism that regulatory clarity would still be achieved through rulemaking by the SEC and CFTC under existing authority, which he argued could be more permissive than legislation. Armstrong also discussed Coinbase's business developments, including the launch of a tokenized stock product available outside the U.S., which he described as the first truly tokenized security product. He spoke about the growth of agentic commerce, noting that many AI-driven transactions are under 30 cents, and said Coinbase has created tools for AI agents to hold their own financial accounts. On Bitcoin, he stated he believes the bottom of the current cycle has been reached and reiterated a target of $400,000 by 2030, citing historical four-year cycles and the upcoming halving event. He also commented on the broader crypto market, noting that a large share of trading has moved offshore due to U.S. regulatory uncertainty, and expressed opposition to a proposed California wealth tax, calling asset seizures a dangerous precedent.

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“I mean just one stat is that um something like 80% of crypto trading has actually moved offshore already because the US is a bit late on this. A lot of the biggest companies they you know famously FTX was founded out of Bahamas. you know, some of the other big ones are out of uh the UAE. In some ways, this lack of clear rules has done wonders for the economic development of foreign countries. You know, if you're one ”

“I think it's important to distinguish. There's no investment return without risk. So, it's not that these regulators, in my understanding, are trying to get rid of all risk. that that wouldn't make sense because then there would be no real returns or upside. But what they do want to get rid of is is fraud and people uh misrepresenting something or failing to make adequate disclosures. So investors should have all the”

“I think that the rule making process can be quite durable also. And the reason is that we have a lot of laws in the US that are already on the books. I think that one of these, people refer to as the Administrative Procedures Act, which essentially is a fancy way of saying how the agencies go through the rulemaking process and they have a notice and comment period and they can accept input from all the relevant parti”

“I think the ethics deal is what killed it. I think that there was a real offer on the table from the White House and it had real restrictions on the president and elected officials for issuing and promoting tokens or memecoins. It would have required them to put that into a blind trust. It gave real authority to the state AGs to go for instance to go enforce that, something I thought that they would never agree to. B”

“There have been a number of last-minute changes and many of them we supported and advocated for earlier this year. I stood up and I said the draft bill was not good enough, and there was some must-haves and nice-to-haves, and I'm glad to report that all the must-haves that we asked for earlier in the year are now in the bill. It's a better work product now. There's folks like Senator Gallego who wanted an ethics prov”

“I'm pretty optimistic that we're going to get more than 60 votes tomorrow. Thousands of hours of work on both sides of the aisle over the past few years to get to a really good bipartisan work product. We finally got some clear rules for crypto, for consumer protection, to give new tools to law enforcement, so the financial system can be built here in America under the U.S. regulatory perimeter. This vote tomorrow is”

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