--- description: Coinbase: 2025 TIME100 Most Influential Companies title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025: Coinbase image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d4f63ab9af29bce/6998c751d32e939710cd7156/T100Companies-coinbase.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jun 26, 2025 # Coinbase Crypto hub by [Andrew R. Chow](/author/andrew-r-chow/) ## Andrew R. Chow Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent  Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian ArmstrongWinni Wintermeyer—Redux The biggest U.S.-based crypto exchange has seen its revenues surge to over $2 billion since last fall, as traders and investors jumped on the platform thanks to a swell in crypto enthusiasm following President Trump’s victory. Coinbase led a [massive lobbying campaign](https://time.com/7049001/crypto-election-2024/ "undefined") during that election, helping cement crypto as a voting issue. Now the company, which in May became the first crypto stock to be added to the bellwether S&P 500 index, is a key driver of the industry’s policy efforts in Washington D.C. If industry-friendly bills are passed, Coinbase stands to become an even bigger hub for U.S. crypto activity. It’s not without problems: prominent blockchain investigators have [accused](https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-accused-ignoring-security-scams "undefined") Coinbase of failing to address security vulnerabilities, resulting in users allegedly losing hundreds of millions of dollars in scams annually, and the S.E.C. is reportedly [investigating](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/technology/coinbase-sec-investigation.html "undefined") whether the company misstated user numbers in past disclosures. In spite of this, the company is only looking to expand, [buying](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/08/coinbase-acquires-crypto-derivatives-exchange-deribit-for-2point9-billion.html "undefined") the Dubai-based crypto derivatives exchange Deribit for $2.9 billion in May. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2025/7289582/coinbase/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2025/7289582/coinbase/"},"headline":"Coinbase","datePublished":"2025-06-26T11:27:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T02:29:40.348Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2025/7289582/coinbase/","keywords":["Companies2025","list","franchise","Magazine","Special Project","sponsorshipblock","Accolades"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d4f63ab9af29bce/6998c751d32e939710cd7156/T100Companies-coinbase.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Andrew R. Chow","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/andrew-r-chow/"}],"creator":"Andrew R. Chow","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4d4f63ab9af29bce/6998c751d32e939710cd7156/T100Companies-coinbase.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/companies2025/","name":"Companies2025"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2025/7289582/coinbase/","name":"Coinbase"}}]}] ```