Coinbase announced it’ll begin the trading that is public of stock on April 14. The crypto change will also hold a first-quarter earnings turn to April 6, providing a perspective that is economic 2021, Coinbase said in a pr release.

There’s been expectation that is a lot the Nasdaq listing. Prices for the stocks are predicted to fall between $300 and $350, valuing the trading platform at about $100 billion. The listing would put Coinbase atop an class that is growing of organizations dealing in bitcoin. Further, a $100 billion debut would make Coinbase more valuable than conventional tech stocks such as Uber.

In line with the typical price of $343.58 of stocks traded on Nasdaq’s private market month that is last CNBC calculated Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s 39.6 million shares is supposed to be worth $13.6 billion, catapulting him to the the “decabillionaire” positioning alongside the kind of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Bill Gates.

The price of bitcoin increasing 10x during the period of the season that is final caught the marketplace by surprise with banks and organizations now scrambling to get a piece of the action.

Investors in Coinbase’s early fundraisings, a close-knit band of Silicon Valley investment firms and crypto that is early, have actually increased their assets by 100-fold in some cases. The windfall could distribute much further, however: The endowment fund of Duke University would have been a beneficiary of Coinbase’s general public listing, CoinDesk reported week that is final.