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Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, and a prominent voice in crypto industry policy and regulation debates.
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Michael Selig filed an early-stage crypto rulemaking with the White House budget office two days after the Senate stalled the CLARITY Act, and the filing's own schedule puts a binding rule in late 2027.
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Coinbase says its Autopilot system now runs about 90 support-bot test cases in 30 to 45 minutes, work that took one to two weeks by hand. A person still approves each procedure release, so the faster cycle gives Coinbase more checks per reviewer while its effect on customers and staffing costs stays unmeasured.
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ARK Invest bought about $24.7 million of CoreWeave shares days before Cathie Wood urged investors to track where AI agents spend money. For now ARK's money is on the compute agents consume, and the fight over which payment network they use is still being argued in papers and protocols.
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Senators killed crypto's Clarity Act on September 15 when a procedural vote fell short of the 60 votes it needed. Any product that rests only on current agency posture now needs a costed fallback in next year's compliance budget.
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Coinbase's self-custodial app is back under the Coinbase Wallet name, and it is now where the company tries perps, prediction markets and tokenized stocks that its licensed exchange does not list.
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Ether led a short-liquidation cascade of the kind Bitcoin usually leads, and negative funding left the bears paying to hold. A month of net inflows into the iShares Bitcoin Trust averaged less per day than the shorts closed in that hour.
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The SEC's Sept. 17 order lets venues trade tokenized stocks in permissioned AMM pools without registering as exchanges, if the token passes the underlying's dividends and votes to the holder. Robinhood's 200 tokens are Jersey debt paper.
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In The Machine-Native Economy, four BlackRock researchers argue agentic commerce will favour stablecoins and that claims on computing capacity could be tokenized and pledged. Coinbase's Brian Armstrong made the case in July.
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The CFTC sent a crypto rulemaking to the White House the same day, both agencies working from authority they already hold. A bipartisan group of state attorneys general is arguing the states should keep theirs.
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Coinbase's rewards run from 3.75% to 4.5%, funded by interest on the Treasuries backing USDC. The statute permitting them turns on which company issues the token, and the bill that would change that stalled in September 2026.
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The Coinbase CEO says the Wall Street Journal is preparing to blame him for the CLARITY Act's Senate defeat, and he has put his own account of January on the record while the SEC and CFTC say they will write crypto's rules themselves.
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August wholesale prices ran 5.4% against a 5.3% forecast and the ten-year yield added 10.7 basis points. Housing and the private-market managers absorbed most of Thursday's selling while the banks barely moved.
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Coinbase reports $228 million of cumulative volume across ten equity tokens on Base, with one early day close to half that total. Alpaca holds the underlying shares under Abu Dhabi oversight, and Regulation S keeps US persons out.
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Coinbase Wallet's pulse mode puts up to 50x leverage on more than 290 markets in a feed-style interface for eligible non-US users, and Hyperliquid's order book matches every trade. The Base App name was retired the day before.
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The new text defines a non-decentralized trading protocol by who can alter it, then leaves registration, conduct and Bank Secrecy Act questions to rules three agencies have not written. A procedural vote is set for Sept. 15.
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Revenue per petahash rose almost exactly in step with the coin in August, so the miners' equity gap says more about how they are funding AI build-outs than about the margin on a mined bitcoin. Luxor's forward curve offers no relief before February.
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Crypto teams have spent a year planning around a federal token rulebook that Polymarket now prices near 14%. The blocker is a provision about the president's family business, and no trade association can redraft its way past that.
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Leaderboards at Disney, Meta, JP Morgan and KPMG rank how much staff use AI, and Accenture's chief says promotion depends on working that way, which leaves reviewers holding a usage count rather than evidence the work got better.
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House leadership cancelled the last two September voting weeks, leaving the market-structure bill that crypto teams have been scoping features around without a scheduled path to the president's desk before the midterms.
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Omarchy's patron ledger names twelve individuals and two companies and adds up to the dollar. The nonprofit meant to hold the trademarks has no jurisdiction, entity or headquarters on the record, and that is the part a fleet owner should be pricing.
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