Brian Armstrong Calls Memecoins ‘Canary in the Coal Mine,’ Predicts Tokenization of Identity, Songs, Votes and More
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says that memecoins are the canary in the coal mine, foreshadowing a broader trend of the tokenization of culture. In a new interview with CNBC, Armstrong says he expects memecoins to eventually lead to the tokenization of identities, votes and art. “Memecoins in the broadest sense, I think we should find a way for artists to get paid. Anyone should be able to put artwork and get paid for it. I do think memecoins are a canary in the coal mine, that more and more of the world is going to get tokenized and put on-chain. Every asset class, every vote, every identity, every song, every Instagram post, whatever – in the future I think more and more of these things are going to tokenized. Now, we also need to make sure people are following the law and not doing pump-and-dump schemes or insider trading, and there probably has been a little bit of that in the memecoin space which is not helping anybody. In every crypto cycle, there seem...
