In short: Link owns a small position as her crypto exposure (25:36). "That's where the Gen Z's and Gen Alphas are actually investing their own money"; the revenue mix is shifting from transactions to subscriptions and services — "I can't tell you the day-to-day price of crypto… but I do want to have an exchange that benefits one way or the other."
Coinbase is the largest US crypto exchange. Link owns a small stake as her way into crypto without betting on coin prices directly: younger investors are putting money there, and more of Coinbase's revenue now comes from subscriptions and services rather than trading fees.
In short: News mention ("Stocks I'm Watching"): crypto-linked stocks rewarded as bitcoin surges to nearly $84,000, its highest level since January.
In short: Worthington: "Coinbase is probably the best known crypto exchange. They call them exchanges, but they act as an exchange, they act as a broker, they're prime broker, they're a market maker. It's really vertically integrated… In traditional finance, those would be done by different firms." Biggest in the US and the venue his proliferation thesis needs; it has "launched a chain" of its own and is "join[ing] up with firms like Shopify to do payments via stablecoin." Constructive on the ecosystem, no explicit rating given on air.
Coinbase is unusual in that it performs jobs that in traditional finance are legally and commercially separated: it is the exchange where trades happen, the broker that faces the customer, the prime broker that holds and finances positions, and a market maker quoting prices. "It's really vertically integrated."
Worthington's argument for the category is indirect. He doesn't make a case for any particular coin; he argues that as blockchains multiply and find real uses, the tokens attached to them multiply too, and traded assets need venues. Coinbase is the largest US venue and has launched a chain of its own, and is experimenting with stablecoin payments alongside Shopify.
The rating is neutral because that is where the conversation actually lands: the venue thesis is constructive, but it depends entirely on the use-case story being right — and the single largest asset traded on these venues, Bitcoin, is the one Worthington explicitly says he has no conviction in.
31:06Kind of give since this is new to my viewers, what do these guys do? And tell us what you think about them and let's have a little dialogue. Okay. So, Coinbase is probably the best known crypto exchange. They call them exchanges, but they act as an exchange, they act as a broker, they're prime broker, they're a market maker.
In short: Winning a smaller market. Q2 revenue −19% Y/Y to $1.22B ($60M miss) and a GAAP loss per share of −$1.36 (missing by $0.94); adjusted EBITDA fell to $208M from $303M in Q1 and shares dropped about 14% post-earnings. Transaction revenue dropped 22% to $599M as weak crypto prices and muted retail activity extended the downturn, and subscription and services revenue fell 12% to $555M. Coinbase still gained share: its portion of crypto trading volume reached a record 10.3%, up from 8.6% in Q1 and 7.1% a year ago; derivatives volume nearly matched its all-time high; prediction-market activity more than doubled sequentially; Coinbase One reached record subscribers; and USDC held on the platform climbed to $20B. Management says the "Everything Exchange" is working, with Bitcoin transactions now just 12% of revenue — but diversification remains too small to offset the broader crypto slowdown. Q3 subscription and services revenue is guided to $500–$580M, well below the $635M consensus, and the 2026 adjusted expense outlook was cut to $4.20–$4.45B. "It is taking share in a shrinking market." (Recap, not a stance call.)
Coinbase is doing everything right competitively and it isn't enough. Its share of all crypto trading hit a record 10.3%, up from 7.1% a year ago; derivatives volume nearly matched an all-time high; prediction markets more than doubled; and stablecoin balances on the platform reached $20 billion. But revenue still fell 19% and it posted a large loss, because the market it dominates is shrinking — crypto prices are weak and retail traders have gone quiet. Management's answer is the "Everything Exchange," broadening into products beyond Bitcoin trading (Bitcoin is now just 12% of revenue), and it has cut its expense outlook. The honest summary from the article: the diversification is real, it just isn't big enough yet to break Coinbase's dependence on the crypto cycle. Next quarter's subscription revenue is guided well below expectations. A recap, not a call.
In short: Another token-pullback datapoint: cutting its AI spending in half and shifting to lower-cost models after the "token maxing" surge.
13:41Microsoft, so that's one of the hyper- — You had Tesla, Elon, putting $200 weekly limits on the amount of token spending. Coinbase is cutting their AI spending in half now because they were suffering. And what they're doing in all of these cases is they're going to using lower-cost models.
In short: A member of the consortium (with Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock) that "unveiled their own stable coin and stable coin ecosystem" — the rival to Circle.
3:12Circle was down 17.5% that day because a consortion of companies including Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase, and Black Rockck unveiled their own stable coin and stable coin ecosystem. The importance of having Visa and Mastercard as part of this consortium cannot be overstated. For a deeper dive, take a look at our episode on January 26, 2026 with Ken Sahausski, the payments analyst at Autonomous Research.
In short: Down 14% in Q2 — "as Bitcoin and other digital currencies have corrected, financial companies devoted to the space suffered."
14:56Monday morning, it was announced that Alan Greenspan died at age 100. He was the second longest serving Fed chair, serving 18 1/2 years. He was appointed by four presidents and stepped down at the end of 2005. During his tenure, he was viewed as a god of finance. His every utterance was treated like Moses coming down from Sinai with the tablets.
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