Beyond asset growth, Armstrong has also called for a radical shift in Coinbase's token listing process. In a Jan. 24 post, he noted the challenges posed by the explosion of new cryptocurrencies.

You wouldn’t want to wake up one morning and find that your account has been frozen or, worse, discover that you have become ...

Coinbase CEO has appraised the trading platform from different lenses and says it could rank 21 in the US as a bank.

But it earns interest on these deposits. For its part, Coinbase also partly owns the project. Therefore, as the cash balance for USD Coin goes up (which is what its market cap shows), Coinbase ...