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Coinbase launches Coinbase Advisor, registering its conversational AI agent with the SEC as an investment advisor

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Coinbase has rolled out a conversational AI agent that carries its own SEC registration as an investment advisor, letting it deliver portfolio analysis, tax-loss harvesting suggestions, and trade ideas through plain-language chat inside the app while still requiring users to approve every action.

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Brian Armstrong@brian_armstrong#398inTech

We registered the AI agent itself with the SEC as an investment advisor.

It has your complete context on your portfolio and account history. Speak to it in plain English to take action on your account. It will even prompt you with ideas you hadn’t thought of.

Coinbase 🛡️@coinbase

Introducing Coinbase Advisor.

One of the first SEC-registered AI-powered investment advisors in the world.

High-quality advice - specific to you - is now one chat away. Real-time portfolio analysis, automated tax loss harvesting, and more.

Rolling out to Coinbase One members.

12:45 PM · Jun 16, 2026 · 191.4K Views

Beta Access

Who can use it right now

The service starts with Coinbase One subscribers in the U.S. and carries no extra fee during the beta phase, though broader availability remains unannounced.

Usage Limits

What the AI can and cannot do

It pulls real-time holdings and market data for context-aware recommendations across crypto, stocks, and derivatives, yet stays non-discretionary so every trade still needs explicit user sign-off.

Sentiment

Positive users hail Coinbase's AI agent SEC registration and trading platform as an amazing milestone in agentic finance, while negative users distrust it due to theft accusations and past crypto losses.

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64.2%

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35.8%

63 comments with sentiment.

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Brian Armstrong@brian_armstrong

Banking on your phone used to sound crazy, and now everyone does it. Using AI agents to manage your financial life will follow a similar path.

Your agents can now connect to your Coinbase account. Trade, pay for services, and operate autonomously (within spending limits and guardrails that you set).

Coinbase 🛡️@coinbase

AI Agents can now use Coinbase.

Marking the start of a new era for agentic finance.

Agents now have the ultimate platform to trade, manage portfolios and execute strategies.

Simply plug in your agent using Claude or ChatGPT, set guardrails, and let it run.

Coinbase for Agents - available now.

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Emilie Choi 🛡️@emiliemc

Gamechanger.

High quality investment advice is just one chat away, 24/7.

Coinbase 🛡️@coinbase

Introducing Coinbase Advisor.

One of the first SEC-registered AI-powered investment advisors in the world.

High-quality advice - specific to you - is now one chat away. Real-time portfolio analysis, automated tax loss harvesting, and more.

Rolling out to Coinbase One members.

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Otonomos@Otonomos

@brian_armstrong Crazy... Remember 2021 when everyone was worried about the SEC and being in crypto felt like a bad idea?

And now, Coinbase goes and registers an AI Agent.

The pump is going to be so huge. All the circumstances are aligning!

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Matt Schlicht@MattPRD

@brian_armstrong @ycombinator Very cool @brian_armstrong

Brian Armstrong@brian_armstrong

We registered the AI agent itself with the SEC as an investment advisor.

It has your complete context on your portfolio and account history. Speak to it in plain English to take action on your account. It will even prompt you with ideas you hadn’t thought of.

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Hiruzen@Hiruzenaio

@brian_armstrong All of this thanks to these Strong Arms of yours that worked so hard to build this, Thanks Armstrong! 💪

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Alex Collingbourne@Collingbourne

@brian_armstrong @Grok do you agree?

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Friends and Fibs@crazybortz

@brian_armstrong It better do my taxes right too! Or else

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Zain Rahman@bitacolyte

@brian_armstrong Super interesting use case. Very cool and I'm surprised that something like this hasn't already happened.

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Sewer Terminal@SewerTerminal

@brian_armstrong finally, a machine that can watch me ignore good advice in real time

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小智｜上Deepcoin预测世界杯⚽️@XiaoZhi_BTC

@brian_armstrong Finally a smart assistant that actually knows my whole portfolio history

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Quantumcowgirl@Quantumcowgirl1

@brian_armstrong Am I able to move my stocks from another brokerage to Coinbase?

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Geoff ₿@GeoffBTC

@brian_armstrong Finally, a way to have someone else oversee my financial disasters, rather than just me.

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The Dr@thedr_btc

@brian_armstrong Great milestone

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ns@nicky_sap

@depressivehacks @brian_armstrong When*

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T B@Res02p35

@brian_armstrong Consider yourself warned: Coinbase should be investigated for theft. I contacted them via their chat bot in Dec 25, and they ripped my account off. Then said It wasn't them. Then they said they put it back but put it on binance overseas, where I could not get to it!!!

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