{"id":78897,"date":"2026-04-03T03:01:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78897"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:01:36","slug":"coinbase-receives-conditional-nod-to-operate-as-national-trust-company-ceo-brian-armstrong-says-were-not-becoming-a-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78897","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase Receives Conditional Nod To Operate As National Trust Company\u2014CEO Brian Armstrong Says &#8216;We&#8217;re Not Becoming A Bank&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Coinbase Global Inc.<\/strong>\u00a0<a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"COIN\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\">COIN<\/a>) said Thursday it has secured a\u00a0conditional approval from the Office\u00a0of the Comptroller of the\u00a0Currency to form\u00a0a federally chartered national trust\u00a0company.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crypto Operations Under Federal Oversight<\/h2>\n<p>Coinbase emphasized that it is not transitioning into a \u201ccommercial bank\u201d and\u00a0will not be taking retail\u00a0deposits or\u00a0engaging in fractional reserve banking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis charter is about bringing federal regulatory uniformity to the custody and market infrastructure business we have been building for years,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Brian Armstrong reiterated the point, saying that Coinbase is bringing the \u201cinfrastructure of crypto\u201d under federal regulatory oversight, but not \u201cbecoming a bank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coinbase?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Coinbase<\/a> has received conditional OCC charter approval.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not becoming a bank, it&#8217;s a trust company. We&#8217;re bringing the infrastructure of crypto under federal regulatory &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/51643306\/coinbase-conditional-approval-national-trust-company-not-a-bank-armstrong?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Coinbase\" receives conditional nod to operate as national trust company brian armstrong says not becoming a bank>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase Global Inc.\u00a0(NASDAQ:COIN) said Thursday it has secured a\u00a0conditional approval from the Office\u00a0of the Comptroller of the\u00a0Currency to form\u00a0a federally chartered national trust\u00a0company. Crypto Operations Under Federal Oversight Coinbase emphasized that it is not transitioning into a \u201ccommercial bank\u201d and\u00a0will not be taking retail\u00a0deposits or\u00a0engaging in fractional reserve banking. \u201cThis charter is about bringing federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-78897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}