Descriptions:
Recorded live at the World Economic Forum in Davos, this All-In interview puts Jason Calacanis across from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong for a wide-ranging conversation covering regulatory shifts, institutional crypto adoption, and an unusually candid look at how Coinbase is deploying AI at the executive level.
On the institutional front, Armstrong discloses that five of the top 20 global banks are now using Coinbase infrastructure to build crypto products, with JP Morgan and PNC Bank among the publicly named partners. BlackRock’s stated ambition to tokenize every one of its funds is also driving significant Coinbase on-chain activity. Armstrong frames the U.S. regulatory environment as transformed under the current administration, contrasting it with what he describes as the Biden era’s attempt to shut down the crypto industry, and pointing to the 52 million Americans who have used crypto as the political base behind the shift toward clearer market structure legislation.
The conversation’s most distinctive segment covers Coinbase’s internal AI implementation: an agent connected to every Slack message, Google Doc, Salesforce record, and Confluence page in the company. Armstrong describes using it as a “reverse prompting” tool — asking the system what he should be paying attention to rather than directing it toward specific tasks. The agent has surfaced team-level strategic disagreements he was unaware of and provided analysis of how he actually spent his time versus stated priorities, a use pattern Armstrong’s Shopify board member Tobi Lütke has also labeled reverse prompting.
📺 Source: All-In Podcast · Published January 23, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
