Brett Tejpaul

I’m Co-CEO of Coinbase Institutional, where I’ve spent the past six years helping build the world’s leading institutional crypto platform, connecting the world’s largest institutions to the crypto economy. When I joined Coinbase in 2020, institutional crypto adoption was still early. Since then, we’ve built and scaled businesses across trading, custody, prime brokerage, financing, derivatives, staking, stablecoins, payments, tokenization and onchain capital markets. I’m most proud of how often our team has delivered the industry’s defining institutional firsts. We helped execute and custody some of the earliest major institutional allocations. We’ve grown alongside crypto-native pioneers like Grayscale, building the infrastructure required as crypto investment products evolved and scaled. We built Coinbase Prime into a full-service institutional platform and connected it with BlackRock’s Aladdin. Today, Coinbase is critical infrastructure behind many of the world’s leading crypto investment products and ETFs. And now, my two worlds are coming together rapidly. Stablecoins are becoming global payment rails. Crypto-native innovations like staking are entering mainstream investment products. Tokenization is bringing traditional securities onchain — most recently with Coinbase establishing our international tokenization hub in ADGM, creating the foundation for regulated, blockchain-native tokenized equities. I’ve spent more than 25 years running global businesses across financial markets, including 12 years living and working in London. At Barclays, I led global sales and trading across capital markets — fixed income, equities, commodities, emerging markets, derivatives, structured products and prime. I’ve led businesses through growth, crises, peaks and troughs, and profound structural change. Those experiences inform what we’ve built at Coinbase: putting clients first, building for scale, managing risk, creating resilient infrastructure and continuing to innovate. Stablecoin payments, tokenization and onchain markets now let us combine the best lessons of global finance with innovation pioneered by crypto. The goal isn’t simply to put the old financial system onchain. It’s to preserve what works, rethink what doesn’t, embrace what crypto has made possible, and build a more open, efficient, resilient and global financial system. After 25+ years in global financial markets and six helping build the institutional crypto economy, I’m proud of what our team has built — and believe the most consequential change is now coming.