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On-chain digital advertising startup EarnOS announced the completion of a $6 million Pre-A round of financing, led by 1kx, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, and Social Graph Ventures. In addition, EarnOS also received a four-year, $12.5 million non-dilutive strategic investment from Verona (formerly XION) to support application validation, user access, and reward distribution systems. The company also announced a rebranding and stated that its L1 network will provide underlying support for EarnOS, aimed at large-scale user authentication and task incentive mechanisms.

The decentralized reinsurance protocol Re announced that it has received strategic investment from Coinbase Ventures.

According to The Block, Benchmark Equity Research maintains a buy rating on Coinbase, with a target price of $270, representing an upside of approximately 59.5% from the current stock price. Analyst Mark Palmer stated that Coinbase's recent system updates clearly demonstrate its rapid transformation from a cyclical crypto broker to an infrastructure platform connecting the on-chain economy with traditional finance.The report highlights Coinbase's product advancements in tokenized U.S. stocks, stock and crypto options, prediction markets, AI investment tools, and agentic payment infrastructure, as well as its prior approval from the CFTC to operate as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), allowing it to offer global crypto perpetual contracts and options trading to U.S. clients through Deribit. Benchmark believes these initiatives further confirm that Coinbase is continuously expanding its business boundaries beyond spot crypto trading.

CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju stated, "Altcoins have not died, but purely narrative altcoins are dead." The era where one could make money simply by issuing a token is no longer. He believes that the altcoins that can survive and are worth paying attention to in the future can be divided into the following three main camps: first, global internet companies with tokenized market layers, where in some cases issuing tokens is more pragmatic than tokenized equity listings, such as BNB and GRAM (TON); second, DeFi services with real revenue, such as Hyperliquid and high-quality DeFi protocols; third, projects that align with broader financial trends. Ki Young Ju concluded that just as true IT giants emerged after the internet bubble, real crypto enterprises will also emerge after this cycle.

Coinbase's Layer 2 network Base officially announced the upcoming major upgrade version Beryl, with the core highlight being the introduction of the Base native token standard B20, aimed at providing more comprehensive infrastructure support for the tokenization of on-chain assets.The B20 standard mainly brings three improvements: faster settlement speed, lower transaction costs, and a structured settlement mechanism.Base stated that the aforementioned upgrade will enable global financial assets to operate on the Base chain in the form of "programmable capital," fully enjoying the advantages of transparency, composability, and liquidity brought by on-chain infrastructure.Base emphasizes its positioning as a neutral open blockchain infrastructure, with related products and functions developed by Coinbase or third parties based on Base. Coinbase and Base themselves do not act as issuers, investment advisors, brokers, or underwriters for any third-party assets or transactions.

According to official news, Coinbase's Layer 2 network Base has announced the launch of the enterprise-level privacy trading feature Base Privacy, providing a combination of on-chain instant settlement, confidentiality, and built-in compliance functions for enterprises.This feature supports B2B payments, payroll distribution, fund management, stablecoin issuance, cross-border remittances, and brokerage settlement, ensuring compliance while maintaining transaction privacy. Base Ledgers can be fully integrated with other parts of the Base ecosystem and can be configured according to enterprise needs.

Coinbase has released the latest System Update, announcing a series of product upgrades that cover AI investment advisory, global liquidity unification, options trading, and the expansion of multi-asset financial services, further transforming into a comprehensive financial platform. The core features of this update include the SEC-registered AI investment advisor Coinbase Advisor, which can provide personalized multi-asset trading and hedging strategies based on user holdings and market data, but does not execute trades directly. At the same time, the platform will introduce a globally unified liquidity pool, connecting the spot and derivatives trading systems of the U.S. and international markets.In terms of product expansion, Coinbase will support stock and crypto options trading and strengthen its derivatives capabilities through the acquisition of Deribit. Additionally, the company has launched pre-IPO perpetual contracts covering popular targets like SpaceX and plans to expand to future IPO projects such as Anthropic and OpenAI. Coinbase has also introduced the Coinbase One Card upgrade program, where users can stake $500 to $5000 USDC to qualify for a credit card and receive 5% Bitcoin cashback when booking through the Booking.com travel portal. The platform will also gradually support the migration of stock assets to Coinbase trading.On the trading infrastructure level, Coinbase has introduced the Transfer Protection mechanism, which prevents security risks such as wrench attacks through delayed withdrawals, and has expanded its prediction market products, launching crypto price binary options and combination prediction trading with a 15-minute cycle. Coinbase stated that its goal is to build an Everything Exchange covering trading, payments, lending, and investment, making it the primary financial account for users.

Coinbase has released the latest enterprise-level "System Update," introducing a series of new products and infrastructure upgrades, further expanding its positioning towards "Everything Exchange," covering crypto assets, stocks, options, perpetual contracts, prediction markets, token issuance, and smart financial services.This update includes a set of AI investment advisor systems registered with the SEC, integrated into the main Coinbase trading platform. Coinbase also announced the establishment of global unified liquidity between the U.S. and international platforms, covering spot crypto assets and derivatives trading to enhance trading depth and execution efficiency.On the consumer side, the Coinbase One Card has added new benefits, allowing users to stake 500 to 5000 USDC to obtain the card, and book travel through the Travel Portal launched in partnership with Booking.com, earning 5% Bitcoin cashback.In addition, Coinbase emphasized several trading products that have recently launched or are in progress, including thematic stock indices, pre-IPO perpetual contracts, new features related to options trading, and upgrades to the developer platform. Coinbase stated that its goal is to become a one-stop application for users to conduct multi-asset trading and smart financial management.

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, Grayscale deposited 1,863 BTC into Coinbase, valued at approximately $123.66 million at current prices.

Coinbase posted on the X platform stating that the first batch of real, 1:1 backed tokenized stocks is about to launch, allowing users to hold actual tokenized stocks of U.S. companies and trade, hold, and redeem them on-chain, while automatically receiving dividends.Coinbase emphasized that this product is not a derivative or an IOU, but a real asset mapping that is 1:1 anchored to the underlying stocks, aimed at providing users with a more transparent and verifiable on-chain stock market experience.

According to the official announcement, Coinbase will list GEODNET (GEOD) on its coin listing roadmap.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) of India has submitted a charge sheet to the PMLA special court in Dwarka, New Delhi, formally accusing Chirag Tomar and his accomplices of participating in a cryptocurrency phishing scam worth approximately $20 million. Investigations reveal that the gang executed attacks by hijacking SEO related to a counterfeit "Coinbase Pro" phishing website, luring users to input account information and further deceiving them into providing 2FA verification, thereby remotely transferring the victims' crypto assets. The funds were subsequently split into thousands of wallets and laundered through P2P transactions with local trading platforms. The case is coordinated with U.S. federal law enforcement actions.Previously, Tomar was arrested by the FBI in the U.S. and sentenced to 60 months in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The Indian ED stated that it has obtained key evidence through international judicial cooperation and has frozen 129 bank accounts related to the case and assets amounting to approximately 645.5 million rupees, with the involved funds and properties undergoing further recovery and forfeiture procedures.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly created wallet withdrew 573,000 HYPE from Coinbase, worth 39.88 million dollars.

According to Jinshi reports, the Bank of Japan stated that it will continue to raise policy interest rates based on the developments in economic activity, prices, and financial conditions.

Coinbase announced the first launch of industry index perpetual contracts. This product allows users to go long or short on specific industry sectors with one click.It is reported that the first batch of 4 index contracts covers artificial intelligence, defense, the Chinese market, and the technology sector, specifically: AI10, Defense10, China10, and Tech100.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform that the U.S. should reconsider the accredited investor laws, as the time for company privatization is getting longer. Only accredited investors (i.e., the wealthy) can participate in early investments, while ordinary retail investors can only enter after an IPO, by which time most of the upside potential has already been realized. The original intention of these rules was to protect ordinary investors from fraud, but in reality, they often make it harder for less affluent individuals to build wealth. Armstrong proposed two possible reform paths: one is to replace the existing rules with ability-based standards, such as qualifying as an accredited investor through a financial literacy test; the other is to completely eliminate the rule, allowing adults to assess risks on their own while maintaining information disclosure requirements and fraud enforcement measures.

According to BBX data, ahead of the FOMC meeting yesterday and under the dual catalyst of the US-Iran agreement, the sentiment for cryptocurrency concept stocks has significantly warmed up. The core dynamics are as follows:Strategy, Inc. (NASDAQ: $MSTR) rose 3.18% to $123.97 on June 15, marking one of several days of recovery; Bitcoin rose to about $64,000 during the same period, but there remains about a 15% discount compared to the company's average price of $75,680 for 843,738 BTC. The company's most important balance sheet action recently came from the SEC 8-K on May 25: repurchasing $1.5 billion in face value convertible bonds maturing in 2029 for about $1.38 billion in cash (completed at about an 8% discount to face value), reducing the convertible bond stock from $8.2 billion to $6.7 billion, generating a BTC Yield of 0.7% and a BTC Gain of about 4,391 BTC; as of May 25, USD reserves were $871 million, and the company stated it would "supplement reserves over time based on market conditions"; since the beginning of 2026, the cumulative BTC Yield is 13.3%. Phong Le (CEO): This transaction "reflects the discipline of using comprehensive capital management tools in debt management"; Saylor previously stated that Strategy still had assets covering all debts when BTC fell to $8,000, implying resilience in extreme scenarios.Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: $COIN) was listed by CoinGape in a June 15 research report as one of the "three cryptocurrency concept stocks to watch" ahead of this week's FOMC (the other two being $MSTR and $BMNR); currently, BTC is about $64,000 and ETH is about $1,660, with the market pricing a 97.4% probability of no interest rate hike at the FOMC on June 17 (2.6% for a rate cut, 0% for a rate hike); the significant US-Iran agreement (over the weekend of June 14-15) has driven a comprehensive rebound in risk assets, with a sharp drop in oil prices easing inflationary pressures, providing additional support for the recovery of sentiment in the cryptocurrency market—if the FOMC dot plot does not show unexpectedly hawkish signals, Coinbase's prediction market and institutional custody business are expected to benefit from the dual improvement in trading volume and asset scale brought about by the recovery of BTC trends.

According to CoinDesk, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that he "intuitively believes" Bitcoin (BTC) may have completed a phase of bottoming out around $60,000, but emphasized that there is still uncertainty in the market. In a video posted on social media, Armstrong mentioned that Bitcoin may have formed a phase low around $60,000 and referred to the historical four-year halving cycle, which typically corresponds to market bottom ranges.He stated, "I still have a long-term bullish outlook on Bitcoin and believe the price will be significantly higher in the future." He referred to Bitcoin as "digital gold" and indicated that by 2030, the price could be far above current levels.In this round of market activity, Bitcoin briefly fell to about $59,700 on June 5, and then rebounded to above $66,000, driven by macro-positive factors such as the preliminary peace agreement between the U.S. and Iran and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, with a 24-hour increase of nearly 3%. Armstrong's views resonate with those of some on-chain analysis firms.CryptoQuant previously pointed out that Bitcoin has entered a historical value range close to its realized price (about $53,600), but ETF capital flows have not yet stabilized completely, and the demand side recovery will still take time. Analysts generally believe that although the price may be close to the bottom range, "bottoming out" and "trend reversal" are still two different stages that require further confirmation from macro and capital flow data.

According to Arkham monitoring, about 1 hour ago, BlackRock deposited a total of 7,245 ETH into the Coinbase Prime hot wallet address, worth 12.6 million dollars.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform that he remains optimistic about Bitcoin as always and still holds a long-term bullish position. He stated that the situation is never as good or as bad as it seems.