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Station Labs Leadership to Join Coinbase to Make Smart Wallets the Default
Tl;dr: Coinbase is doubling down on smart wallets by bringing onboard the leadership of Station Labs, who have deep expertise in building onchain developer tools.
By Coinbase Company, June 4, 2024

Top talent is one of Coinbase’s core cultural tenets. We believe that having exceptional people in every seat is vital to achieving our mission of increasing economic freedom in the world by bringing the world onchain.

In pursuit of bringing in top onchain talent, today we’re excited to announce that the founders of Station Labs will be joining Coinbase to work on Base, the Smart Wallet, and our onchain developer product suite. As a team of deeply onchain-native builders, Station’s founders will leverage their unique expertise with complex concepts such as smart wallets and account abstraction to help accelerate and expand our onchain developer product suite.

One of the biggest barriers to growing onchain adoption is the complexity of onboarding for both consumers and developers. Station’s founders have extensive experience building tooling for developers and creators to integrate core onchain primitives such as wallets, token-based experiences, and abstracting away gas fees for consumers.

We’re thrilled to bring in the Station team at a critical and exciting time for our onchain product suite. As Base and the broader L2 ecosystem continue to grow, we’re committed to providing developers with easy-to-use tooling to lower the barriers for consumers with phraseless, gasless, onchain experiences. Station’s founders represent some of the brightest minds in the onchain tools space and we look forward to working with them to bring the next generation of builders onchain.

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/station-labs-leadership-joins-coinbase-to-make-smart-wallets-the-default?__cf_chl_rt_tk=vI_gELjWevVkhtFcjWU6a.X.WDHw7H1cOZXkkizVEeE-1717525634-0.0.1.1-5374