Coinbase Brings Tokenized Stocks to Ethereum L2 Base

Coinbase has obtained a MiFID license in the UK, which will allow it to offer derivatives and stock trading to UK users.

Odaily Odaily that Coinbase has announced it has obtained a UK Investment Services License (MiFID), enabling it to offer trading services for traditional financial products to UK users. Institutional and professional traders will be able to trade crypto, stock, and commodity perpetual contracts, while retail users will be able to trade stocks on the Coinbase platform for the first time. Coinbase stated that this license, together with its existing UK e-money license and crypto asset registration qualifications, forms part of its regulatory framework. It represents the largest expansion of the company's product capabilities since entering the UK market and will further advance its "Everything Exchange" strategy. In the future, the platform will also gradually support services such as stablecoin payments, savings, lending, and tokenized real-world assets (RWA).