Coinbase doubles down on on-chain capital formation, acquires Echo for $375 million

On Tuesday, Coinbase Global acquired Echo for roughly $375 million, marking the firm’s eighth deal so far this ￰0￱ said it acquired Echo because it allows crypto companies to raise capital directly on the blockchain ￰1￱ startup, which focuses on on-chain capital formation, was founded by a longtime crypto figure known by its pseudonym ￰2￱ its launch, the firm has helped projects raise over $200 million across roughly 300 deals. Echo’s token sale product, Sonar, has also helped power Plasma’s XPL token ￰3￱ doubles down on on-chain capital formation Coinbase has acquired@echodotxyz. Onchain capital formation is a vital and unique part of the crypto ￰4￱ to be adding Echo and Sonar to Coinbase to give our customers new token access ￰5￱ — Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) October 21, 2025 Echo helps startups to raise capital directly from their communities through either private or self-hosted public token sales using a product called ￰6￱ said the initiative will help it build a full-stack solution for crypto ￰7￱ initiative aims to help startups get easy access to capital and tools like Echo that align fundraising with their user ￰8￱ also opens the door for investors to early-stage opportunities that were often gated behind private networks.

“Echo will remain a standalone platform under its current brand for now, but we will integrate Sonar’s public sale product into Coinase, and likely introduce new ways for founders to access investors, and for investors to access opportunities into Coinbase itself.” – Cobie , Founder of ￰9￱ crypto exchange revealed plans to expand Echo’s infrastructure beyond crypto over ￰10￱ company said it hopes to support tokenized securities and real-world assets ￰11￱ revealed that Echo has pioneered tools that make fundraising more inclusive, transparent, and ￰12￱ firm wants to create more accessible, efficient, and transparent capital ￰13￱ exchange noted that current founders often struggle to raise capital, and individual investors don’t have the opportunity to invest in private token ￰14￱ acknowledged that Echo complements its recent acquisition of Liquifi, which helps startups with token creation and cap table ￰15￱ firm said that although Liquifi helped strengthen its ability to support builders at the start of their journey, Echo extended that support into ￰16￱ crypto exchange believes it can now support issuers and investors across a startup’s full lifecycle since it already supports listings, custody, staking, trading, and ￰17￱ is already integrated into teams like Uniswap Foundation, OP Labs, Zora, Ethena, and Ox, to help launch and manage their ￰18￱ said its goal is to bring more than a billion people on-chain by removing the barriers and providing both the product and the expertise to make token launches simple, compliant, and ￰19￱ added that the initiative will help the firm partner more efficiently with builders earlier in their lifecycle, before tokens are launched or ￰20￱ crypto exchange also plans to integrate such capabilities with Coinbase Prime to give issuers tools directly from its Prime ￰21￱ seeks to revive the UpOnly podcast The rumors are true, we bought the NFT. @UpOnlyTV is coming ￰22￱ — Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) October 20, 2025 The latest Echo integration follows Coinbase’s acquisition of an NFT that compels Cobie’s crypto podcast UpOnly for approximately $25 ￰23￱ CEO Brian Armstrong revealed that the company bought the NFT to bring back the UpOnly podcast for a new ￰24￱ Fish/Cobie said during UpOnly’s last episode, which was uploaded to YouTube in December 2022, that he will no longer be the decision maker if the podcast ￰25￱ the firm paying $25 million for the NFT, it was listed on OpenSea for only 4.7 ETH ($18,500).

The non-fungible token also ranks fifth among the most expensive funds sold in crypto’s ￰26￱ podcast describes itself as a production that prioritizes entertainment before alpha, but mostly, there is ￰27￱ news caused a surge in Coinbase’s Layer-2 network Base activity, notably on a memecoin called UPONLY, which skyrocketed 5,800%. A Solana-based memecoin called UPONLY also hiked by 250% at the same ￰28￱ your project in front of crypto’s top minds? Feature it in our next industry report, where data meets impact.