Coinbase Global IncCEO says the CLARITY Act vote is positioned to pass and rules will clarify within a month, a favorable regulatory outlook for the exchange.

Brian Armstrong, CEO of major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, appeared on CNBC on September 10 and said the outlook for Bitcoin to reach $400,000 by 2030 is "a reasonable target." That would be roughly five times its current level of around $77,000. He explained that Bitcoin repeats a cycle of roughly four years of gains and euphoria followed by about a year of decline, saying, "This downturn has passed the one-year mark. Personally, I think the bottom of this cycle is in," and expressed the view that the market will enter an upward trend over the next one to two years heading toward the halving in about a year and a half. On the regulatory front, he stressed that a procedural vote scheduled in the Senate on September 15 to decide whether to begin deliberation on the CLARITY Act is in a position to secure enough yes votes, and said that even if the bill stalls, the SEC and CFTC will move to build out rules under their existing authority, so regulation will become clear within a month either way. Speaking also to Bloomberg, he presented a forecast that the stablecoin market will reach $3 trillion by 2030, and named payments, tokenization, prediction markets, and finance driven by AI agents as areas of focus. However, in August 2025 he had predicted $1 million by 2030, and the probability in prediction markets of the CLARITY Act passing this year remains below 20 percent.
Coinbase Global IncCEO says the CLARITY Act vote is positioned to pass and rules will clarify within a month, a favorable regulatory outlook for the exchange.