Coinbase is set to buy Vector.fun, a Solana-based trading platform, before the year ends. The move involves Coinbase, which wants to give its users more ways to trade digital tokens.
According to a Fortune report, the deal comes as part of a busy year when the company has made several major purchases. Max Branzburg of Coinbase told Fortune that the goal is to help people trade more assets in a simple way.
Vector.fun is known for fast trading and a playful style that attracts memecoin fans. It also lets users watch other people’s trades in real time.
Meanwhile, Coinbase plans to close the Vector.fun mobile and desktop apps once the deal goes through. The company will bring all thirteen Vector.fun employees into its team. Branzburg said Coinbase wants its app to feel open to every kind of trader.
Coinbase already supports decentralized trading through Base, its own blockchain. The new deal will enable the company to open the door to Solana-based tokens. Branzburg said the aim is to make Coinbase a place where users can find every asset they want to trade.
He called it the company’s push toward becoming an “everything exchange.” The new tools from Vector.fun will sit inside the main Coinbase app so users do not have to switch platforms.
The deal also shows how quickly Coinbase has been expanding. Vector.fun marks its ninth purchase in 2025. Earlier this year the company bought Deribit for $2.9 billion and later acquired Echo for $375 million.
It also looked into buying BVNK for around $2 billion but that plan ended. Strong profits in 2024 and 2025 helped Coinbase fund these big steps. This follows a slow period in 2022 and 2023.
The wider crypto world is also seeing a rush of mergers. A report from Architect Partners said more than $10 billion worth of deals closed in the third quarter of 2025. Ripple bought GTreasury for $1 billion while Kraken paid $1.5 billion for NinjaTrader.
Branzburg said many crypto companies have reached a point where joining forces makes sense. That said, the Vector.fun deal is another sign that Coinbase wants to lead the next phase of crypto trading.
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