Coinbase expands U.S. stock trading to all users, strikes Yahoo Finance tie-up
Coinbase broadens product mix with U.S. equities and Yahoo integration
Coinbase has moved from a staged pilot into a full national rollout, making commission-free U.S. stock trading available to its entire U.S. user base while integrating with Yahoo Finance to drive discovery and referrals.
The platform now supports more than 8,000 tradable stocks and ETFs, offers fractional positions starting at $1, and operates trading windows around the clock on weekdays (24 hours a day, five days a week).
Under the media partnership, Yahoo Finance will embed a clear call-to-action that routes interested visitors to Coinbase’s execution rails, exposing Coinbase to roughly 150 million monthly users on Yahoo’s network.
Coinbase also signaled product roadmaps beyond simple brokerage, including plans for tokenized securities and extended perpetual-style U.S. equity exposure for non-U.S. clients through offshore entities, pending regulatory sign-off.
Operationally, the firm relies on third-party clearing and custody partners to handle settlement and custody, keeping execution layers separate from Coinbase’s consumer-facing wallet and exchange environments.
For retail investors, the combination of broad asset coverage, fractional access, and a low-friction onboarding path via a major financial publisher reduces friction to enter both stocks and crypto from a single account.
For incumbents, the move compresses an already-thin fee environment and steals distribution advantage by converting media attention into direct trade flow.
Regulatory caveats remain critical: tokenized equities and offshore perpetuals introduce jurisdictional and compliance complexity that will shape product timing and geographic reach.
Strategically, this ties together Coinbase’s liquidity pools, on-ramps, and retail distribution to chase diversified revenue beyond spot crypto trading.
Expect the next six months to reveal whether referral-led customer acquisition from Yahoo converts into active traders at scale and whether the product expansion measurably narrows Coinbase’s revenue gap versus diversified brokerages.
In short: Coinbase has repositioned toward a multi-asset retail broker model, using a mainstream media partnership to accelerate reach while laying groundwork for more advanced, tokenized equity products.
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