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- Coinbase Canada CEO Eric Richmond confirmed that the company is working to bring “Anything Exchange” to Canadian users.
- The idea is to offer a single app that integrates crypto, stocks, ETFs, and prediction markets – with no firm launch date announced.
- Tokenized stocks—shares recorded on the blockchain that are settled instantly and traded during the day—will be made available to non-US users, including Canadians, this month, with the right to share.
Coinbase has a new direction in Canada: stop thinking of the company as a crypto exchange, and start seeing it as the only financial app the country needs.
Eric Richmond, CEO of Coinbase Canada, said BNN Bloomberg this week that the company is pushing “Everything Exchange” north of the border – a single platform where crypto, stocks, ETFs (funds that track a basket of things like the S&P 500), and prediction markets (platforms where users bet real money on the results of real-world events, such as elections or sports results) all trade from a single account.
“I think the first topic of Coinbase in Canada was about crypto exchanges,” Richmond said. “But now the second part of that is Everything Exchange. How do we create that one place for Canadians to have all of their financial information in one app that’s supported by this technology that makes things seamless, seamless, and 24/7?”
There is no fixed date set in Canada. Coinbase says it is working with local regulators to get there—a relationship it has cultivated since becoming Canada’s first Canadian-registered global crypto exchange. April 2024.
In the US, construction has already begun. Coinbase has opened up stock and ETF trading to eligible American users February 2026 and launched the prediction markets in January through Kalshi, a federally regulated prediction market operator now valued at $22 billion. Like Decrypt written in Junethe company’s roadmap on Everything Exchange now includes nearly 10,000 stocks and ETFs on one platform.
Tokenized shares—shares in real companies listed on the blockchain instead of a traditional system, meaning transactions are settled instantly and the market doesn’t close—should come to non-US customers this month, according to a previous report. official blog. Richmond framed it as a matter of access.
In the face of competition from Robinhood and traditional Canadian businesses, Richmond was not particularly worried. “I think people are starting to realize that banks close at 4 p.m., or markets close at 4 p.m., or that wires take days to install, or that access to the most expensive people for certain things is for the most expensive people,” he told BNN Bloomberg.
His five-word summary: “A rising tide lifts all boats.”
The Bank of Canada is expected to complete stablecoin regulation in 2027—the last major piece needed before Coinbase can list Canadian dollar stablecoins and roll out all of the country’s stock exchanges.
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