The company is also expanding its derivatives business. New products include perpetual futures tied to thematic baskets such as artificial intelligence, defense and Chinese stocks, as well as pre-IPO perpetual futures that provide exposure to private companies, including SpaceX (SPCX), which went public earlier this month. Coinbase said contracts tied to OpenAI and Anthropic, which are expected to be announced later this year, are expected to follow.
The exchange is also betting heavily on prediction markets, an area that has grown rapidly across crypto and traditional finance. New offerings include short-term crypto prediction contracts and bundled bets that allow traders to combine multiple forecasts into a single position.
A main focus of the update is artificial intelligence.
Coinbase introduced Coinbase Advisor, which it described as one of the first SEC-registered AI-powered investment advisory tools. The service, which was initially available to Coinbase One subscribers in the US, aims to provide portfolio recommendations, tax loss guidance and market analysis.
The announcements reflect CEO Brian Armstrong’s long-term vision to make Coinbase a full-service financial platform that combines trading, payments, lending and wealth management. Competition continues to intensify across crypto and traditional finance, with exchanges increasingly vying to become the primary destination for trading stocks, digital assets and tokenized financial products from a single account.
