Coinbase lets investors trade Solana tokens on-chain via a built-in DEX in its app, bypassing the need to wait for traditional exchange listings.
The update, unveiled at the Solana Breakpoint event in Abu Dhabi, gives Coinbase’s 100 million users immediate access to Solana’s entire token ecosystem.
The launch highlights that exchanges are shifting towards hybrid models, combining centralized interfaces and decentralized execution.
In a presentation at the Breakout event, Andrew Allen, a protocol specialist at Coinbase, said the exchange aims to make the fast-growing Solana ecosystem easily accessible to regular users.
“Millions of assets are launched on-chain every day, and we believe they should be accessible to all our users,” Coinbase protocol specialist Andrew Allen said during the presentation.
BREAKING: @muntbasis to allow users to trade all Solana tokens via a DEX, without listings 🔥 pic.twitter.com/IyQ5IXHGgR
— Solana (@solana) December 11, 2025
Allen said during the presentation that the feature will be rolled out to any token with “sufficient liquidity,” although he did not clarify what level of liquidity would be considered.
“Coinbase is specifically expanding into Solana,” he said. “This means that very soon you will be able to open the Coinbase app and see Solana’s own assets on Coinbase, maybe even your own.”
His presentation showed that users would be able to trade Solana tokens using a bank card or USDC.
Solana said this move demonstrates the evolution of on-chain activity on the blockchain and positions it as one of the fast-growing platforms in the crypto space.
DEX Access fuels Solana’s growing ecosystem
The rollout comes as Coinbase deepens its partnership with Solana and just a month after Coinbase announced the acquisition of Solana-based trading platform Vector to expand its on-chain trading capabilities.
Solana DEX volume peaked in January at $313 billion for the month, but has since fallen back to an average of more than $100 billion, according to DefiLlama facts.
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