Coinbase Down Again, HIP-4 vs Polymarket, and Dueling Big Tech Crypto Partnerships | The Breakdown

David covers three Friday stories: Coinbase's hours-long outage on the back of an AWS cooling failure, the data on whether prediction markets are actually beating memecoins, and the dueling Solana + Google Cloud / AWS + Coinbase + Stripe agentic commerce announcements.

TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Intro

(01:23) Coinbase AWS Outage

(07:20) Nexo Ad

(07:55) Prediction Markets, Memecoins, and HIP-4

(15:58) Nexo Ad

(16:51) Prediction Markets, Memecoins, and HIP-4 (Cont.)

(19:15) Agentic Commerce Meta

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