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We're hosting the first ever agentic payment hackathon Y Combinator HQ in SF Saturday, November 15th. We'll be joined by Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Replit ⠕. Over 25k in incentives and a guaranteed YC W26 interview for first place. Come shape the future of

SF/NYC is going to be a wild A/B test

Fun story - some students outperformed professional financial analysts in a challenge we set leading up to our Q3 earnings. This was a creative way our team designed for us to search for top talent. We set a challenge for students to use our Q2 2025 10-Q and public data to

Applications due TODAY Alliance -- the best crypto-native accelerator in the game. Apply at alliance.xyz . I hope to see you at Demo Day!

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Users want more privacy (source: a16z crypto )

Coinbase x Morpho lending products continue to reach all-time highs despite markets being so volatile. Speculative use cases of crypto are going down, but the DeFi mullet is real organic long-term adoption.

BREAKING: Coinbase’s Head of Corp Dev aklil and Bridge’s Head of Marketing Zena Davé are engaged

congrats to Vladimir Novakovski and the crew at Lighter. we're pumped to support their efforts through Coinbase Ventures 🛡️ and look forward to seeing what the team cooks up next.

Brian Armstrong Your analogy of taking the next step up the mountain in the fog, which to me is just a more tangible version of the action produces information concept, has been one of the most useful guides for me both for how to build things and more generally how to live. Thank you for that.

👀 Alana Levin is the Onchain Mary Meeker…

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