Publicly funded science should work more like open source software. Today a result is a PDF. The data often isn't shared, the code isn't public, and few studies ever get replicated. Imagine every experiment as a repo. Data, code, and protocol, all versioned. Anyone could fork it, rerun it, and send a fix. Funders could reward replications as much as new papers. AI makes this urgent. Agents are now making more discoveries than ever. The bottleneck becomes replication/validation. Then commercialization, which still requires moving atoms in the real world and meetings with regulators.

I've changed how I work over the last few weeks. I now have one lead agent for each area of focus, running all the time, and a chief of staff agent that oversees them. Each lead manages its own sub-agents that write code, test it, chase reviews, and coordinate with team members. Everything I need to decide or review comes into one prioritized queue, a simple local web app. Each product review includes screenshots and a video demo of the feature. I clear the queue in batches, mostly by voice and keyboard shortcuts. The leads also bring back ideas I hadn't considered. Working from one queue, instead of switching between dozens of chats, has cut a lot of mental overhead. The system keeps learning my preferences and distilling my judgment into a "Brian brain," so its recommendations and first drafts get better before they reach me. The goal is fewer corrections per change. Every change still goes through the same human review and security checks. It is eliminating tasks, not human judgment. What an exciting time to push the frontier of productivity, especially as we build the economy for agents (agentic finance). We should all keep pushing in this direction.

I'm spending a lot of my own time on Coinbase app quality right now. There are lots of pieces that add up: instances where it's unclear why funds are on hold, making it simpler to get through ID checks, app startup times/speed, an error that doesn't tell you what went wrong, a button that leads to a dead end. Fixes are rolling out over the next few releases. If something in the app frustrated you recently, reply and tell me. My agents and I are reading them.

As a public company CEO, I'm pro tokenization of our stock for a simple reason: I want more people to own it. Why would I alienate a potential new category of shareholders? It's just bad business. Meet the customer where they are.

Tokenized stocks are an important innovation for democratizing access to high quality investments globally and 24/7 trading. But they may also unlock new utility that wasn't possible before in tradfi. @base is hosting a competition for teams that want to innovate in this area

Everyone can express their own opinion in a free society, even an idiotic one. It helps us know how dumb someone is. But calling for political violence against other Americans crosses a line that we shouldn't tolerate.

Security is never done. It's always good to use these moments to harden our systems further, put in new checks and controls, and utilize the latest agents on defense before they get used against us on offense.

I wake up most days thinking about agentic finance. We’re still early, but to me the growth trajectory points to where the world is heading. Coinbase for Agents is our answer to this growing need - connect agents to your account, and let them trade and pay on your behalf (with limits and controls).