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Horizon
Consolidated fair value $196.72 all other verticals held in this portfolio case
Final-quarter revenue $748M 30% of company revenue
Explicit segment contribution $6.60B EBITDA less segment capex, before corporate items

Coinbase stops being a crypto exchange and becomes a multi-asset one. Equity and pre-IPO perpetuals are live for non-US traders, US access to global perpetuals is routed through a CFTC-regulated pathway, and Deribit unifies US and international liquidity. This is the only case in which the take rate rises on a growing volume base rather than a shrinking one, and at $196.72 it is also the only case that clears the $181.78 tape: it is what you have to believe to own the stock here. It does not assume any of those products is monetised today, because none of them is.

Stablecoin revenue

Basis quarter$292M
Final quarter$748M
Implied CAGR+21%
Final revenue mix30%

Interest earned on USDC reserves. The base is a balance rather than a subscriber count and the price is a yield: Coinbase keeps essentially all reserve income on USDC held inside its own products and a contractual share of the income on USDC held elsewhere. Both balances and both revenue halves are disclosed, which makes this the best-evidenced driver in the model.

Last four quarters
2025 Q3 $325M Estimated
2025 Q4 $331M Estimated
2026 Q1 $305M Reported
2026 Q2 $292M Reported
Reserve income on customer USDC held in Coinbase productsContractual share of off-platform USDC reserve income under the Circle agreement
Subscribers 17.0M 22.1% of a 77.0M addressable base $17B of customer USDC inside Coinbase products, counted in thousands of dollars of balance.
Addressable subscribers 77.0M the S-curve ceiling $77B of average USDC market capitalisation in 2026 Q2, the whole pool the balance can come from.
Net adds 0/qtr ramping toward 0/qtr, throttled as the base approaches the TAM
Net-add ceiling 0/qtr what supply can deliver at full rate
ARPU $2.86/mo drifting −1.5% per quarter, floor $2.42 Monthly reserve income per $1,000 of balance: the derived 3.44% annualised on-platform yield.
Non-subscriber revenue $146M/qtr growing +1.5% per quarter $146M a quarter earned on the $57B of USDC held off-platform under the Circle agreement.
Stablecoin revenue

Latest: $748M (2031Q2E)

Period Value
2025Q1 $274M
2025Q2 $309M
2025Q3 $325M
2025Q4 $331M
2026Q1 $305M
2026Q2 $292M
2026Q3E $305M
2026Q4E $319M
2027Q1E $333M
2027Q2E $348M
2027Q3E $364M
2027Q4E $380M
2028Q1E $397M
2028Q2E $415M
2028Q3E $434M
2028Q4E $453M
2029Q1E $473M
2029Q2E $497M
2029Q3E $523M
2029Q4E $551M
2030Q1E $579M
2030Q2E $610M
2030Q3E $642M
2030Q4E $675M
2031Q1E $710M
2031Q2E $748M

Assumptions & reasoning

  • A subscriber here is $1,000 of customer USDC held inside Coinbase products and ARPU is the monthly reserve income it earns: 17,000,000 of them at $2.86 a month is the derived $146M a quarter on a $17B balance, a 3.44% annualised yield.
  • The addressable base is average USDC market capitalisation of $77B, so the attach rate is the 22.1% of all USDC that sits inside Coinbase products. Non-subscriber revenue is the other half of the line: $146M earned on the $57B held off-platform, a derived 1.03% annualised yield that mixes the reserve rate with an undisclosed Circle split.
  • The deck build is exact: on-platform revenue $174M less $28M earned on corporate balances is $146M, plus $146M off-platform, against filed stablecoin revenue of $292,147K.
  • The 2025 Q3 and 2025 Q4 figures are restated onto the current basis by removing the $30M and $33M of corporate-balance revenue that the Q1 2026 10-Q moved into corporate interest and other income; that amount is carried in the corporate interest vertical, so every quarter still sums to filed total revenue.
  • This line is a duration bet on short rates as much as a crypto bet: balances hit an all-time high in 2026 Q2 and revenue still fell 5%, because the rate fell faster than the balance grew.
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