The Duopolies of 2026: Ethereum & Solana, Coinbase & Robinhood, Polymarket & Kalshi | Ryan, David & Arnav Pagidyala
So you're going to have the basically Robinhood banking app, which has checking, savings, credit card on one side, and a whole separate application, which you're going to have maybe options, perps, prediction markets.
The Duopolies of 2026: Ethereum & Solana, Coinbase & Robinhood, Polymarket & Kalshi | Ryan, David & Arnav Pagidyala
This is actually very smart, in my opinion, because the moment that you have your checkings and savings account right next to the perps button, you're going to churn a lot of users, especially when you consider their user base skews very young and continues to skew younger.
The Duopolies of 2026: Ethereum & Solana, Coinbase & Robinhood, Polymarket & Kalshi | Ryan, David & Arnav Pagidyala
And then on the Coinbase side, I think Coinbase is more of a prediction, but I think they're going to abandon these the content coin narrative and overall just reevaluate the North Star of base and how and if to use the base token as a lever for growth.
The Duopolies of 2026: Ethereum & Solana, Coinbase & Robinhood, Polymarket & Kalshi | Ryan, David & Arnav Pagidyala
And more broadly, I think from a company direction perspective, I think Brian Armstrong has explicitly stated that, you know, he wants Coinbase to become a bank replacement for people, which is an awesome North Star to have, right?