Brian Armstrong: Coinbase's product showcase, Dec 17, 2025

At the keynote on Dec 17, 2025, Brian Armstrong said 6 of the 17 words Kalshi and Polymarket listed; Parrot’s count agreed with all 17 settlements. Quotes below are at most 25 words each.

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17 words · 6 settled yes · our count agreed on 17 of 17

backtest The probabilities on settled rows are a walk-forward backtest: the model as of before each event, computed after Parrot went live; they were not published at the time.

Listed words: result, our count under the market rule, the count over every speaker, whether they agree, and the probability (a walk-forward backtest on settled rows)
WordResultOur countAll speakersAgreesProbabilityMarket
Prediction Market Yes27✓75%n=2 from settlement history–
Ethereum 2+ timesYes26✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Stablecoin 2+ timesYes220✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Ethereum Yes26✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Bitcoin Yes114✓75%n=2 from settlement history–
Token Sale Yes16✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Delaware No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
BVNK No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Solana DEX / Solana Decentralized Exchange No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Cobie No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Echo No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Solana No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Base Token No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Acquisition No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Doge / Dogecoin No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–
Perpetual Futures / Perp No02✓10%n=2 from settlement history–
Tokenized Equity No00✓10%n=2 from settlement history–

Market prices are mid quotes from Kalshi and Polymarket, shown for context, may be delayed by several minutes and are not a signal. Quotes as of Oct 21, 2026 04:22 UTC.

Transcript

quotes of at most 25 words

Captions · machine-attributed · Coinbase (YouTube) · Source · Quotes of at most 25 words; the full recording is on the publisher's official channel.

Machine-attributed. Speaker turns are labelled by a model, not the publisher.

14 matches for “Bitcoin”; 1 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Brian Armstrongspeaker57:15

…We've actually been tokenizing assets for many years at Coinbase with wrapped Bitcoin and stable coins. But that was just the beginning. So today we're…

Where the listed words were said

Brian Armstrongspeaker“Prediction Market” · 4:34

…just crypto. And customers want one place where they can trade equities, prediction markets, commodities using spot trading, derivatives, and options. And as every asset…

Brian Armstrongspeaker“Ethereum (2+)” · 5:50

…we've also incubated the most popular layer 2 blockchain on top of Ethereum called Bass, which gives developers a powerful foundation to build crypto utility…

Brian Armstrongspeaker“Ethereum” · 55:57

…your entire financial life. So today we announced direct deposit, instant unstaking, Ethereum backed loans, updates to our borrow product, and a redesigned peer-to-peer payment…

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