#Coinbase Ventures, the venture division of the eponymous cryptocurrency exchange, identified the "most interesting ideas" for funding in #2026 year. These include perpetual futures on tokenized real-world assets (#RWA ), trading terminals for prediction markets, unsecured lending, and much more.
The company noted that the sphere #Web3 is changing every year. Over the last 12 months, liquidity has increased, the focus has shifted to stablecoins and privacy, and on-chain rails have emerged to complement AI #Aİ . Against this backdrop, teams involved in developing ready-made solutions are raising questions about which direction to take.
This is primarily perpetual futures based on RWA. Such contracts create 'synthetic access' to off-chain assets, from company stocks to macroeconomic data, without the need for collateral.
In the field of trading, the organization has identified specialized Prop-AMM exchanges on the Solana blockchain $SOL , which act as market makers and are thus protected from 'predatory behavior', and trading terminals for prediction markets.
Also, the company highlighted the following areas:
- composed markets of perpetual futures contracts with the possibility of earning income from collateral while maintaining positions with leverage;
- unsecured lending based on on-chain reputation;
- privacy coins;
- levels of data aggregation for the robotics sector;
- proofs of humanity;
- democratization of on-chain development thanks to the widespread implementation of AI agents and tools for working with them.
