In 2015, out of 5,000+ banks in the US, there were exactly 3 banks willing to work with licensed crypto exchanges.

Establishing and maintaining bank relationships *despite* Operation Chokepoint is an important reason why Coinbase is valuable today.

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I'm out of date, but it's still a small list

how has that changed since then? does Coinbase share the list of US banks their relationship list anywhere

what are the institutional farcaster relationships?

Based Banks!

Let's see if the winds of change with recent elections over there on the other side of the pond will make more of them collaborative -

Good point. Thank you.

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Definitely, my main thesis on why Base wil never have a token as well,CB is cautious with their actions. The other is not wanting to lose the ability to do the majority of BTC and ETH etf custody in the States.