Coinbase is moving fast to transform itself into a one-stop trading platform for the next generation of investors.

On Tuesday, the company unveiled a slate of new products, including options trading for stocks and crypto, thematic index perpetual futures, support for agentic trading and new types of prediction-market contracts. The rollout is part of Coinbase’s broader “Everything Exchange” strategy, announced in December, which aims to expand the platform beyond crypto trading into all asset classes.

“We’ve now caught up to a lot of the basics and started to accelerate past where a lot of traditional platforms are,” says Max Branzburg, Coinbase’s head of consumer products. “For example, our ability to offer these thematic index perpetual futures products (e.g. AI, China, Defense) is a totally new kind of equities trading that's not available anywhere else. The ‘everything exchange’ is not your parents' brokerage. This is an entirely new kind of financial platform that's really pushing beyond what was possible in the past.”

Other new features include crypto binaries, which let users make “up or down” bets on cryptocurrencies over periods ranging from 15 minutes to a year. Coinbase is also adding “combos,” trades that bundle multiple........

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