The Future of Crypto | Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase | Ep. 21

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

August 13, 2025

Duration

46m

Channel

Uncapped with Jack Altman

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

(If you enjoyed this, please like and subscribe!) Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, a leading cryptocurrency company that provides exchange, brokerage, and custody services to 100M+ verified users in over 100 countries. Founded in 2012, Coinbase went public in 2021 on the NASDAQ under the ticker COIN and as of August 2025 has a market cap of $83 billion. Brian is also the co-founder of New Limit, a longevity biotech company on a mission to significantly extend human lifespan that recently raised a $130M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins and angels including John and Patrick Collison, Elad Gil, and Joshua Kushner, among others. We covered:

• Working with the government
• When to jump to the hot new thing
• Choosing what frontiers to prioritize
• The inner game of being contrarian

Timestamps: (0:00) Intro (0:26) Becoming the everything chain (4:20) Story behind the GENIUS Act (5:33) Working with regulators (10:45) The future of crypto and the government (17:10) When to jump to the hot new thing (23:03) Choosing what frontiers to prioritize (29:59) Brain-computer interface tech (34:48) Inside the mind of a contrarian (43:52) Creating a sustainable lifestyle More on Brian: https://www.coinbase.com/ https://www.newlimit.com/ https://x.com/brian_armstrong More on Jack: https://www.altcap.com/ https://x.com/jaltma https://linktr.ee/uncappedpod Email: friends@uncappedpod.com

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Brian Armstrong

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• Jack Altman

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Uncapped with Jack Altman, featuring Brian Armstrong and Jack Altman, The Future of Crypto | Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase | Ep. 21 explores coinbase’s everything exchange vision, regulation battles, and frontier bets ahead Armstrong argues that most asset classes will migrate on-chain because blockchain rails are faster, cheaper, globally accessible, and enable new market structures (24/7 trading, fractionalization, novel governance).

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