Ethereum

2024

Base

USDC

Coinbase is preparing for a future of a billion customers using decentralized applications on millions of blockchains safely and securely in a system integrating the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and Circle’s USD Coin (<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/usdc-price-index" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">USDC</a>).&nbsp;
Coinbase head of tokenization Anthony Bassili, speaking at TokenizeThis 2024 in Miami, said Coinbase’s <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/learn/what-is-base-coinbase-l2-network" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ethereum layer-2 Base blockchain</a> will save time on Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) with identity attestation through the Ethereum Attestation service and Coinbase verification, which creates a tag on <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-introduces-embedded-smart-wallets-developers" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">the user’s so-called smart wallet</a>.
Coinbase verification is available after the customer has completed its KYC procedure. While that may not be sufficient in all cases, Bassili said:
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 “We expect that eventually to evolve into something like a KYC reliance model. […] And it will start to form market structure that makes it a lot easier for a simpler KYC process.”
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Already more than 300,000 wallets have been attested.
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To give those customers with wallets and verified identities Web3 access, Base will leverage the interoperability of EVM networks. The ecosystem will be supported by USDC. Coinbase <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-takes-equity-stake-circle-usdc-centre-consortium-shuts-down" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">took an equity stake</a> in Circle in August. “Right now, we're somewhere above $28 billion of total assets” in Circle, Bassili said. Coinbase also has the ability to mint USDC.
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 <figcaption style="text-align: center;">Coinbase head of tokenization Anthony Bassili (right) at TokenizeThis 2024. Source: Sam Bourgi/Cointelegraph
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When robust tokenized assets in different asset classes arise, it could become possible to trade assets for assets, without going through the intermediate step of trading them for dollars. Bassili said:
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 “I think […] we're a while away from [that goal], because we need regulatory structures to show up, we need products themselves to be designed with identity checks instantly, and there is a lot of market structure that is still has to come.”
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“Crypto is the perfect embodiment of a liquid free open market structure where you can design any amount of complexity into it and have assets, trade with each other, don't have to be dollar pairs trade,” Bassili said. In the meantime, USDC provides a first step to developing that market structure.
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