Crypto and TradFi platforms are converging rapidly, and the convergence is happening in both directions. For retail traders, the important shift is that the distinction between a crypto account and a brokerage account is starting to disappear.

One of the best examples of a crypto platform becoming a multi-asset brokerage is Coinbase, which is moving beyond spot crypto into crypto derivatives, prediction markets, stablecoin payments, tokenised assets, equity-linked products and potentially single-stock perpetual futures.

London’s trading industry is coming home!

Last week, the firm filed with the CFTC to offer perpetual futures on roughly 50-60 US stocks, including Apple, Microsoft, Tesla and Nvidia. If approved, this would be the first…