Brian Sullivan (Anchor) 00:00.390
and mackenzie sagala spoke with the CEO brian armstrong and has more what is going on with coinbase mckenzie
Mackenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter) 00:08.350
hey brian so coinbase is rolling out a major slate of new features designed to turn its app into a one stop financial platform adding stocks more advanced trading and prediction markets will also doubling down on its on chain ecosystem and tools for businesses and developers now
Mackenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter) 00:24.150
i just sat down with CEO brian armstrong and he insists this is not a copy paste of the robin hood playbook coinbase already owns a massive crypto native audience and now he wants the main app to be the place that you trade everything stocks derivatives and prediction market
Mackenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter) 00:39.270
contracts alongside a longer term road map aimed at eventually bringing equities on chain but the space is getting crowded fast calci and polly market are battling it out and robin hood just jumped deeper into sports by adding NFL event contracts last night but armstrong tells
Mackenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter) 00:56.150
me that the point isn't just to trade outcomes here it's to read the world in real time and he thinks prediction markets can become a mass market information product
Brian Armstrong (CEO) 01:06.960
maybe you know one percent of people use it as a trading an asset class to trade and ninety nine percent of people are using it as a way to figure out what's going to happen almost like a competitor to traditional media or maybe even entertainment
Mackenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter) 01:19.230
and that's the bet coinbase wants outcome trading to become one more daily habit inside of its app as it builds toward being a next gen brokerage brian
Brian Sullivan (Anchor) 01:28.510
so you got robin hood also getting into these prediction markets leaning in as they would say is this like the next big battleground for the retail trader
Mackenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter) 01:40.320
absolutely coinbase is looking at what robin hood has proven out over the past year more than eleven billion event contracts traded its fastest growing products by revenue ever and robin hood 's history a stock that's up more than two hundred percent year to date meanwhile
Mackenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter) 01:54.520
coinbase is in the red down about five percent on the year and it sees this this diversification as a way to bring new users into the ecosystem with this sticky product that they haven't offered before a way to keep them there even when crypto prices are trading like they are
Mackenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter) 02:10.310
today
Brian Sullivan (Anchor) 02:10.870
very quickly an incredibly important question where are you
Mackenzie Sigalos (Business News Reporter) 02:15.610
i'm in fort mason san francisco so brian armstrong is just inside of this building pitching the world on this new slate of products and i just talked to him and i came out here to talk to you