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#Coinbase Ventures Eyes #RWA Perpetuals for 2026

Coinbase Ventures released its 2026 investment priorities on Tuesday, focusing on perpetual futures for real-world assets, specialized trading platforms, DeFi innovations, and the intersection of crypto with AI and robotics. The venture capital arm identified several emerging opportunities across digital asset markets.

Among top priorities is expanding RWA perpetuals beyond traditional #crypto assets. Perpetual futures can create synthetic exposure to off-chain assets, from private companies to macroeconomic data prints, without requiring the underlying asset to be secured.

Kinji Steimetz, associate of Coinbase Ventures, wrote that as crypto becomes increasingly intertwined with macro markets, a more sophisticated trader base seeks to express a wider range of views. This creates demand for macro asset exposure on-chain, allowing traders to hedge or position through instruments tied to oil, inflation breakevens, credit spreads, and volatility.

The team highlighted specialized exchanges as a key opportunity in the trading realm. Prop-AMMs on $SOL are designed to protect #liquidity providers from toxic flow, according to the blog post.