Coinbase

Currently leading Coinbase Ventures, investing in exceptional founders building the onchain future. Prior tours of duty focused on M&A (Xapo, Bison Trails, Unbound Security, Polychain Labs/Unit 410), Partnerships (Base x Optimism) and Strategic Investments.

Director, Head of Coinbase Ventures

Obvious Ventures

Early stage venture fund co-founded by Ev Williams

Investor

Bain & Company

Private Equity Group and Tech/Media Practice

Case Team Leader

Consultant

SB Projects, LLC

Scooter Braun Projects is a diversified entertainment and media company with ventures integrating music, film, television, technology and philanthropy

Business Development & Tech Partnerships

Research Assistant @Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

Morgan Stanley

Summer Associate Technology Investment Banking

Pencils of Promise

Chief Operating Officer

Deloitte Consulting

Short-term price action doesn’t define long-term progress. By that measure, 2025 was one of crypto’s most important years yet. Infrastructure matured, new markets emerged, and builders kept shipping.

Our team at Coinbase Ventures is sharing 9 ideas we’re ready to back that we think could define crypto’s next big thing in 2026. 

They roll up into four themes:

1️⃣ Perpification of Everything

Synthetic markets are about to hit escape velocity. RWA perpetuals can bring onchain exposure to everything from private-company valuations to macro indicators, creating entirely new categories of trading.

2️⃣ Specialized exchanges and trading terminals

New market-structure primitives — from Prop-AMMs to prediction-market terminals — are reshaping how traders route, hedge, and discover liquidity. We expect the next wave of pro-grade UX and exchange models to emerge here.

3️⃣ Next-gen DeFi

DeFi is moving from isolated protocols to fully composable markets. Breakout teams will redefine capital efficiency enabling undercollateralized credit, private orderflow, and integrated perp markets at scale.

4️⃣ AI + robotics

As AI moves from software into the physical world, crypto becomes the coordination layer. Identity, payments, verification, and agent-to-agent commerce will all need onchain rails, and we’re looking for teams building them.

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2026 is going to mint a new class of iconic crypto companies, and we’re ready to invest at the tip of the spear. If you’re building in any of these areas, consider this your bat signal — we want to talk. Read the full blog, reach out to me or anyone on the team, and let’s build the next chapter together:

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