Companies Will Complete Listing Process On-chain In Future: Coinbase CEO

• Brian Armstrong said heavy regulation has pushed value creation into private markets.
• Coinbase expects companies to complete the full listing process on-chain.
• Fortune 500 firms are actively exploring on-chain equities and assets, he said.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said private companies stay private too long because going public is expensive, slow, and heavily regulated.

According to Armstrong, this has pushed most early value creation into private markets, where access is limited to large funds and credit investors.

He said demand for shares in major private companies already exists, but there is no liquid market to set prices early. When firms finally list, valuations are often distorted, and post-IPO performance suffers.

Armstrong described this as an unintended outcome of higher regulation, not a lack of investor interest.

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