Coinbase has launched 24/5 trading for nearly 4,000 U.S. stocks in the United Kingdom, letting UK users access equity markets from 9:30 a.m. ET Monday through 4 p.m. ET Friday — well outside the windows traditional brokers offer.
The lineup includes Apple, currently trading at $311.00; Tesla at $321.55; Microsoft at $487.46; and Alphabet at $362.43. For crypto-native investors, that means managing Bitcoin and S&P 500 exposure inside one platform, cutting the friction of moving capital between separate accounts.
The strategic logic is straightforward: more fiat on the platform historically drives crypto trading volume. With Bitcoin at $64,876 and Ethereum at $1,915, any uptick in equity activity that pulls users deeper into the Coinbase ecosystem has a direct read-through to core exchange revenue. Increased fiat inflows correlate with higher crypto allocation as users shift capital between asset classes.
The move puts pressure on traditional brokers by matching crypto markets' extended-hours model and signals to rival exchanges that cross-asset offerings are now a competitive requirement for retail capital. Coinbase's Q3 earnings will be the first hard data point on user adoption and revenue from the equities service — watch those numbers closely, particularly against a Crypto Fear & Greed Index reading of 25, signaling Extreme Fear.
