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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $173.65 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $105M 5% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $1.05B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

Share gains compound into a recovering tape while the cost reset holds, so operating leverage returns faster than revenue does. The six points of margin here are about a third of the nineteen-point gap between the 65.3% of revenue this model spends on overhead and the 46% the company own cost plan implies at a recovered revenue base. What this case does not reach is the December 2024 peak revenue of $2,272M in a quarter, and it does not assume US perpetuals or unified Deribit liquidity are live and monetised.

Blockchain rewards

Basis quarter$83M
Final quarter$105M
Implied CAGR+5%
Final revenue mix5%

Staking commissions on customer assets. Revenue falls out of staked units times token price times protocol reward rate times the commission, and Coinbase discloses none of those four, so sequential growth on the filed total is the only defensible driver.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $185M Reported
2025 Q4 $152M Estimated
2026 Q1 $101M Reported
2026 Q2 $83M Reported
Ethereum and Solana staking commissionsOther proof-of-stake rewards
Sequential growth −14.0%/qtr decaying toward +2.0% Down 17% in Q2 on price and reward-rate effects; assets on platform fell 16% and carry into Q3.
Blockchain rewards

Latest: $105M (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2025Q1 $197M
2025Q2 $145M
2025Q3 $185M
2025Q4 $152M
2026Q1 $101M
2026Q2 $83M
2026Q3E $73M
2026Q4E $68M
2027Q1E $65M
2027Q2E $63M
2027Q3E $63M
2027Q4E $63M
2028Q1E $64M
2028Q2E $66M
2028Q3E $68M
2028Q4E $70M
2029Q1E $72M
2029Q2E $75M
2029Q3E $78M
2029Q4E $81M
2030Q1E $85M
2030Q2E $89M
2030Q3E $92M
2030Q4E $96M
2031Q1E $101M
2031Q2E $105M

Assumptions & reasoning

  • Assets on platform fell 16% to $246B in 2026 Q2, mostly on spot-bitcoin-ETF outflows where Coinbase is primary custodian, and blockchain rewards fell 17% even as native units staked rose. Revenue at 0.0339% of assets on platform is a ratio, not a disclosed rate.
  • The research brief proposed a 0.15 decay on this line. That would hold it in decline for thirteen straight quarters, which contradicts the recovering volume path the same brief assumes for trading, so the decay is raised to 0.25: the line troughs at $54M in 2027 and recovers to $64M, still 23% below the 2026 Q2 print.
  • Staked balances, native units and commission rates are all undisclosed, so no unit driver can be built here without inventing one.
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