Coinbase expands India presence over 12 months with tokenized equities, DEX access, DeFi lending and trading products under Everything Exchange strategy.

According to DeFi Education Fund, Web2 front ends are typically custodial and account-based, while Web3 front ends are non-custodial and wallet-based, which directly affects trader control over execution and asset custody (source: DeFi Education Fund, X post, Oct 20, 2025). According to DeFi Education Fund, centralized Web2 interfaces can impose KYC and geo-blocking that disrupt market access, whereas Web3 interfaces enable permissionless interaction with on-chain smart contracts from compatible wallets (source: DeFi Education Fund, X post, Oct 20, 2025). According to Ethereum.org, self-custody shifts security and transaction management to the user, with finality and fees determined on-chain, impacting execution certainty and costs during network congestion (source: Ethereum.org, Wallets and Transactions documentation, accessed Oct 2024).