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Coinbase is late to stocks—but CEO Brian Armstrong says it will win in the long run

Coinbase’s new stock offerings will help the company become a bridge to blockchain-based financial markets, says Armstrong.

By Jeff John Roberts

January 16, 2026

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Politics

The Nobel Prize committee doesn’t want Trump getting one, even as a gift—but they treated Obama very differently

By Nick Lichtenberg

MIAMI, FLORIDA – JANUARY 14: In an aerial view, high voltage power lines run through a sub-station along the electrical power grid on January 14, 2026 in Miami, Florida. U.S. President Donald Trump announced that AI tech companies need to ‘pay their own way’ when it comes to their electricity consumption so that Americans don’t ‘pick up the tab’ for their data centers. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump says he’ll make tech firms pay for power. They’d love to

By Michelle Ma, Alicia Tang, and others

A trader works at his desk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York on January 14, 2026. Wall Street stocks retreated early Wednesday as markets digested solid earnings from large US banks and delayed retail sales data that topped expectations. Geopolitical tensions have been prominent in the early part of 2026 so far, with President Donald Trump threatening Iran over its response to civilian protests and the White House emphasizing its designs on taking over Greenland. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images)

Economy

Deficits boost U.S. debt but also inflate corporate profits and stocks, so reducing red ink could trigger a financial crisis, analysts warn

By Jason Ma

Investing

Betting stocks fall as NFL prediction bets gain on gambling apps

By Peyton Forte and Bloomberg

Crypto

Coinbase is late to stocks—but CEO Brian Armstrong says it will win in the long run

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Investors cry foul over former NYC Mayor Eric Adams’s crypto launch: ‘Such an obvious rug’

Polygon Labs buys two crypto startups for $250 million as it looks to compete with Stripe

Former New York Mayor Eric Adams has a new act as a crypto entrepreneur—though details of his ‘NYC Token’ remain vague

An anonymous Polymarket trader made $400,000 betting on Maduro’s downfall—and now Washington wants answers

DeFi has earned a seat at the grown-ups table—now comes the hard part

How a Harvard grad helped make Hyperliquid the biggest new player in crypto—with just 11 people and no venture funding

Rumors are swirling about Venezuela holding $60 billion in Bitcoin—but crypto experts are skeptical

What to look for in crypto in 2026: Bitcoin, Trump, and the battle for DeFi

Russia and Iran are increasingly turning to crypto—especially stablecoins—to avoid sanctions, report finds

‘There’s so much corruption, embezzlement and missing money’: Venezuela’s rumored $60 billion Bitcoin ‘shadow reserve’ draws skepticism

Exclusive: Fireblocks acquires crypto accounting platform TRES Finance for $130 million

Stanford professor raises $15 million for Babylon, a decentralized protocol to turn Bitcoin into collateral

Ethereum has long talked a big game. Now it’s time for the second biggest blockchain to deliver

Michael Saylor’s Strategy flirts again with the danger threshold at which his company is worth less than his Bitcoin

Feds are hunting teenage hacking groups like ‘Scattered Spider’ who have targeted $1 trillion worth of the Coins2Day 500 since 2022

The world’s leading blockchain-based taxi app is setting its sights on New York City

JPMorgan to allow crypto trading for institutional clients in latest embrace of the sector

Notorious crypto con man Sam Bankman-Fried has a prison passion project: giving legal advice to other inmates

Chaos, cheap money, and a collapse in crypto send gold up 69% for the year, hitting a new record high

Crypto in 2025 was defined by two big trends—and only one of them is obvious

Klarna partners with Coinbase to receive stablecoin funds from institutional investors

CEO of nuclear fusion firm Trump Media is merging with in $6 billion deal: High-velocity capital is ‘critical’ and concerns are secondary

PayPal CEO Alex Chriss says stablecoins will be key as his company navigates the ‘classic innovator’s dilemma’

North Korea stole a record amount of crypto—again: report estimates its hackers’ 2025 haul at $2 billion

Coinbase announces stock trading and new Kalshi-based prediction markets

HashKey shares start trading in Hong Kong, as the city increasingly embraces crypto

The generational gap in crypto investment ‘has never been more marked’, says VP at Coinbase

Bittensor, the AI-linked cryptocurrency founded by a former Google engineer, just halved its supply. Here’s what that means

Crypto wallets, long a painful experience, now feel a lot more like Venmo

Exclusive: Visa launches stablecoins advisory practice to keep up with crypto wave

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