Coinbase CPO Surojit Chatterjee Explains Why He Believes the Exchange Will Win- Ep. 385

Surojit Chatterjee, chief product officer at Coinbase, comes to talk about what products Coinbase is building, how it can thrive in such a competitive landscape, how to onboard billions of users into crypto, and much more.

Show highlights: how Surojit got into crypto and ended up at Coinbase what sets Coinbase apart from the competition how to bring billions of customers to crypto  Surojit’s mental model of a bridge between the fiat world and the crypto world how Coinbase is integrating its main app with Web3 whether crypto can become a utility rather than an investment asset how Coinbase is building a product in such a way that it attracts even “crypto-native” people what happened with Coinbase NFT Marketplace’s failure and whether the company will keep investing in NFTs whether Coinbase has lost crypto-embedded people among its employees how the partnership with BlackRock indicates how far crypto has come the amount of money that institutions could potentially pour into crypto how Coinbase will prevent itself from having the largest percentage of staked ETH how the company is monetizing the Coinbase wallet and what would happen to revenue if the trading volume were to move from the exchange to Coinbase wallet swaps why Coinbase is suffering a decline in trading volume whether Coinbase can compete with newer exchanges like FTX and Binance and why Surojit still thinks Coinbase will win why it is important to keep investing and building through this crypto winter Surojit’s take on the frontrunning of coins about to be listed on the platform why the Howey test (which determines whether something is a security) is outdated how Coinbase understands securities, and whether the firm thinks the tokens listed on the platform are securities how can Coinbase compete with decentralized exchanges like Uniswap why Surojit is worried about regulatory clarity and stablecoins how hacks and security give the crypto industry a bad reputation what Surojit’s dreams are for the industry Thank you to our sponsors!
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Surojit:  Twitter: https://twitter.com/surojit
Coinbase Q2 2022 Earnings: Shareholder letter: https://s27.q4cdn.com/397450999/files/doc_financials/2022/q2/v2/Q2-2022-Shareholder-Letter.pdf Summary: https://twitter.com/fintechintern/status/1557130836574539776?s=20&t=R-oDUTEaev-F8bPonC2q5Q Earnings call: https://s27.q4cdn.com/397450999/files/doc_financials/2022/q2/Coinbase-Q2%2722-Earnings-Call-Transcript.pdf
NFT Marketplace: Coinbase NFT launch: https://decrypt.co/99561/coinbase-nft-marketplace-150-users-first-day-public NFT Market data: https://dune.com/Marcov/0x-NFT-Market Gamestop NFT stats: https://dune.com/dataisking420/gamestopnft-stats Gamestop’s performance against Coinbase: https://decrypt.co/105069/gamestop-ethereum-nft-sales-dwarf-coinbase-nft
Partnerships BlackRock:  https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/24/blackrocks-fink-says-ukraine-war-could-accelerate-crypto-adoption-report/ https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-selected-by-blackrock-provide-aladdin-clients-access-to-crypto-trading-and-custody-via-b9e7144f313d https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/07/14/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-seeing-very-little-demand-for-crypto-lately/ Integration with META: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/08/04/meta-confirms-nft-rollout-across-100-countries-amid-coinbase-integration/
Regulation and lawsuits Insider Trading Court charges: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/three-charged-first-ever-cryptocurrency-insider-trading-tipping-scheme Cobie’s tweet: https://twitter.com/cobie/status/1550192546889998340 Brian Armsontrg’s tweet: https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1550162989881253889 Terra/UST lawsuit:  https://www.tbstat.com/wp/uploads/2022/06/1-main.pdf https://www.theblock.co/post/152942/coinbase-sued-in-relation-to-promotion-of-terrausd-cryptocurrency IPO-related lawsuit: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/08/09/coinbase-executives-mislead-shareholders-about-public-listing-new-lawsuit-alleges/ Coinbase Does Not List Securities. End of Story: https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-does-not-list-securities-end-of-story-e58dc873be79#:~:text=To%20be%20explicit%2C%20the%20majority,SEC%20jumped%20directly%20to%20litigation. Coinbase Faces SEC Probe on Crypto Listings: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-26/coinbase-faces-sec-investigation-over-cryptocurrency-listings Previous Coverage of Unchained: Why a Coinbase Listing May Not Be a Good Thing for a Token:https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-a-coinbase-listing-may-not-be-a-good-thing-for-a-token/
Disclosure in the event of bankruptcy:  https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/crypto/coinbase-discloses-customers-could-lose-their-crypto-if-it-ever-goes-bankrupt/ https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1524233480040710144?s=20&t=RsZpP4fGxGl4JVt4iYQBRw


Competition Crypto market data: https://www.theblock.co/data/crypto-markets/spot FTX surpassing Coinbase: https://www.theblock.co/linked/149654/ftx-surpassed-coinbase-as-second-biggest-centralized-crypto-exchange-in-may Coinbase Will Need Its Cash to Fend Off the Competition: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/coinbase-will-need-its-cash-to-fend-off-the-competition