{"id":660971,"date":"2026-09-23T03:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=849698"},"modified":"2026-09-23T03:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:30:25","slug":"coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-challenges-banks-as-stablecoin-rewards-fight-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-challenges-banks-as-stablecoin-rewards-fight-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Challenges Banks as Stablecoin Rewards Fight Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/brian-armstrong-challenges-banks-as-stablecoin-rewards-fight-grows-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Brian Armstrong, Coinbase CEO\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says USDC rewards should not be treated like bank-deposit interest, arguing that fully reserved stablecoins pose fundamentally different risks from fractional-reserve banking. His comments sharpen a policy fight that has become one of the most consequential fault lines between crypto firms and traditional banks. Coinbase CEO Defends USDC Rewards Coinbase CEO [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says USDC rewards should not be treated like bank-deposit interest, arguing that fully reserved stablecoins pose fundamentally different risks from fractional-reserve banking. His comments sharpen a policy fight that has become one of the most consequential fault lines between crypto firms and traditional banks. Coinbase CEO Defends USDC Rewards Coinbase CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":660972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-660971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}