[Coinbase Plans to Open Stock Trading to All Customers in the Coming Weeks] BlockBeats News, January 16: According to a report by *Fortune*, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated in an interview that Coinbase is working on transitioning from a cryptocurrency trading platform to an 'everything exchange,' with plans to open stock trading to all customers in the coming weeks. Currently, this service is only available to a limited number of users. Brian Armstrong pointed out that although stock trading is currently offered in a traditional manner, the ultimate goal is to achieve tokenized equity, meaning stocks would be natively issued on the blockchain. He predicted that this transformation would begin within the next two years, during which all companies will recognize blockchain as a superior technology for managing equity. Armstrong also expressed his hope that Coinbase could become the first company to pay shareholder dividends in Bitcoin in the future.