It's no surprise that 2022 has been a volatile year for both the capital and crypto markets. The days of meme stocks and mooning assets seem so long ago. Since its public debut in April 2021, Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) has been one of the most scrutinized stocks on the Nasdaq. It's become challenging to keep up with the company's developments amid increasing regulatory concerns over the crypto markets and waning investor enthusiasm.

Yet despite all of this turbulence, Coinbase has managed to make some significant progress. In this article, we are going to discuss how Coinbase has started laying the foundation to become a full-spectrum crypto conglomerate and mature beyond simply a trading exchange.

Over the summer, Coinbase announced that it had partnered with asset-management firm BlackRock. More specifically, the partnership revolves around BlackRock's proprietary risk-management software called Aladdin. At a high level, Aladdin's software is leveraged by hedge funds and other financial institutions to process analytics across stocks, bonds, and foreign exchange currencies as well as derivatives and alternative assets. While that is an impressive roster of asset classes, do you see anything missing? Coinbase did.

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