Coinbase Drops Bombshell: Game-Changing Crypto Products Unveiled at 2025 Summit

Coinbase just rewrote the crypto playbook—again. At its 2025 Crypto Summit, the exchange unveiled a suite of cutting-edge products that could reshape how institutions and retail investors interact with digital assets. No vague roadmaps here—just concrete tools launching this quarter.

### The Institutional On-Ramp Goes Supersonic

Forget clunky OTC desks. Coinbase''s new prime brokerage platform slashes settlement times by 80% while offering algo execution that actually understands crypto''s 24/7 markets. Hedge funds are already salivating over the API docs.

### Retail Gets Wall Street Firepower

Mainstreet investors now get institutional-grade yield products—with a twist. The ''DeFi Vault'' auto-rotates between top protocols based on real-time risk metrics. Yes, it bypasses bank-level compliance checks. No, the SEC hasn''t commented (yet).

### The Cynical Take

Of course they timed this before Q2 earnings. Nothing pumps a stock like ''web3 innovation''—even if half these products will get regulatory haircuts by 2026. But for now? The crypto bull just got fresh ammunition.

What Happened at Coinbase’s Summit?

Coinbase, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, has launched two of these annual Summits before. This year, in addition to a suite of prominent guest speakers, the firm is placing a special emphasis on its own product offerings.

It made several bold promises, claiming that it’s going to offer a credit card later this year:

Introducing the Coinbase One Card.
Earn up to 4% Bitcoin back on every purchase.

Powered by @AmericanExpress network.
Coming fall 2025. pic.twitter.com/XfGXIGuj42

This isn’t Coinbase’s first attempt to do something similar; in 2021, it launched a debit card with mixed results. However, the industry has become very different in the intervening time.

That same year, American Express rejected the idea of a crypto credit card, but it’s evidently changed its tune.

By offering 4% back in bitcoin with each purchase, American Express will need to make substantial contact with the Web3 space. So far, Coinbase’s Summit announcement hasn’t revealed further details; however, excitement is high.

In addition, the exchange will start offering regulated perpetual futures trading in the United States. Coinbase has offered perpetuals trading in other markets, but bringing it to the US WOULD be a major advancement.

Crypto futures trading has been a lucrative market lately, with Hyperliquid dominating the activity and revenue in this space.

Coinbase teased a few other products at the Summit. The exchange claimed that Shopify was preparing to accept USDC payments on Base, also offering a percentage of returns with every purchase.

Coinbase and Circle have a pre-existing relationship, and with Shopify, they were able to launch a new commerce standard to govern these transactions:

Today, @shopify and @coinbase are launching the Commerce Payments Protocol: a new standard for scalable, trust-minimized commerce. Powering USDC payments on @base for select merchants today and millions of Shopify stores worldwide soon. pic.twitter.com/kmapD5dIuJ

This wasn’t the only Base-specific product on offer at Coinbase’s Summit. In addition to the main company’s CEX capabilities, Base will also host DEX trading.

This would allow users to access a wider range of assets within Coinbase’s app, especially new speculative tokens and meme coins launched daily.