Coinbase Resolved an issue that resulted in push notifications about the company’s prediction markets offerings being sent to customers who were not interested in them, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong It was said on Friday (March 27) mail On X.
Armstrong said this in response to A mail One Coinbase customer complained about receiving three notifications about college basketball within an hour. The client also said that the cryptocurrency exchange is “trying to get its customer base addicted to sports gambling, so they can get more exorbitant fees.”
“There appears to have been an error in the targeting of these push notifications — it is now being fixed. We apologize for the issue, and thank you for bringing it up,” Armstrong said in his response.
Addressing the issue of prediction markets themselves, Armstrong said Coinbase aims to be an “everything exchange” that enables people to trade anything fiat. He added that the company does not want to impose anything on anyone, and that in this case, with the notifications, the company made a mistake that it has now fixed.
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Coinbase announced in December 2025 that it would enter the cryptocurrency market Prediction markets The game by allowing access to prediction markets in the United States, initially via market flow from everything And support for later contracts from other prediction market platforms as well.
The company said at the time that this offering would allow users of its exchange to manage their predictive positions in the market alongside existing cryptocurrencies, stocks and cash balances.
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Within days of this announcement, Coinbase expanded its new domain Prediction markets Businesses get started by running prediction markets Clearing company.
In February, during Coinbase’s Q4 earnings call, company executives highlighted the cryptocurrency exchange diversification Plays He stressed that the next phase of the digital assets industry will be related to payments, finance and programmable financial services.
“Everything in the stock market is working,” Armstrong said during the call. “In 2025, we hit all-time highs across our products: Coinbase One subscriptions reached 1 million, trading volume and market share doubled, and USDC held on the platform reached an all-time high.”
Coinbase Everything is exchanged The concept, which is central to the company’s current narrative, includes three layers of activity: trading, financial services and applications.
