Coinbase just made its stock-market move. Benchmark says COIN has 60% upside.
The product list is now bigger than crypto. The hard part is proving users want one app for all of it.
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- →Coinbase announced stocks, options, perpetual futures, and AI features in its push to become an everything exchange.
- →Benchmark-StoneX reiterated a $270 COIN target on Wednesday, according to Decrypt, about 60% above the share price.
- →The number to watch is product uptake before Q3 ends, not another analyst note.
- perpetual futures → Contracts that let traders bet on prices without a set end date.
- tokenized stocks → Digital versions of shares that are meant to track real stocks.
Benchmark put Coinbase at $270 on Wednesday. Decrypt reported the Benchmark-StoneX target sits about 60% above Coinbase's current share price. The call followed Coinbase's latest product push into U.S. stocks, options, perpetual futures, and AI features.
The tape matches the story, for now. Coinbase is trying to stop being only a crypto exchange. It wants the brokerage account, the derivatives account, and the consumer finance app in one place.
That is a bigger claim than adding another coin listing. Decrypt said Coinbase called the direction an "everything exchange" push. The product list included stocks, ETFs, indexes, options on crypto and equities, tokenized stocks, thematic perpetual futures, pre-IPO perps, and AI-powered tools.
If you're holding COIN, the bet is no longer just bitcoin volume. Your bag is now tied to whether Coinbase can win non-crypto trading without losing its crypto edge. That is a cleaner story for analysts, but a harder one to execute.
The weak point is sourcing. The $270 target and 60% upside are single-source figures from Decrypt's summary, not the Benchmark-StoneX note itself. Product details came from the same coverage, not Coinbase's own announcement.
The number to watch is not another target. It is whether Coinbase turns this launch list into visible usage before Q3 ends.
Coinbase's choice to bundle stocks, options, perps, and AI into one announcement is aggressive because it asks investors to price execution before revenue is visible.
By the end of Q3, watch whether Coinbase gives launch dates or user numbers for U.S. stock trading and options; no dates means the $270 case is still mostly narrative.
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