Sarah Wolf, the marketing lead behind Coinbase’s Base Layer 2 network, is departing after nearly five years at the exchange to head startup marketing at AI lab Anthropic. 

The move pulls one of crypto’s most influential brand builders toward the rapidly expanding AI ecosystem forming around Anthropic’s Claude models.

Wolf confirmed the transition through a detailed post on X, thanking Base creator Jesse Pollak and outlining a new focus on founders and early-stage teams now building with Anthropic’s models. 

Her jump comes amid Anthropic’s aggressive commercial surge and the crypto industry’s growing interest in its Mythos AI system.

My time at @coinbase is coming to an end after nearly five years.

These last few years have been an exciting chapter of my life and career. I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the smartest and most talented people I’ve ever met – not only at Coinbase, but across the… pic.twitter.com/4CFfnS8H6a

— Sarah Wolf (@sarahzorah) April 16, 2026

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Inside Wolf’s Base Legacy From Pizza Meetup to Global Ecosystem

Wolf joined Coinbase as its first builder marketer and helped launch Base alongside Jesse Pollak in 2023. 

What began as a small pizza meetup has scaled into a thriving builder community spanning 52 countries and has emerged as one of the leading blockchain ecosystems in the market today.

Under her watch, Base partnered with Adidas and Coca-Cola, produced multiple Onchain Summers, and pioneered Coinbase’s first livestream showcase through A New Day One. 

Her team also carried USDC payments into Shopify for millions of users and scaled BaseCamp from a “scrappy forest” gathering into a full builder summit.

“This experience showed me that small teams can indeed change the course of a company and sometimes an entire industry,” Wolf wrote, crediting Pollak for the trust placed in her through Base’s buildout. 

She said the marketing team she hired would continue driving the network’s creative strategy and builder outreach after her exit.

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Anthropic Move Lands Amid Claude Boom and Mythos AI Frenzy

Wolf’s next chapter places her inside Anthropic during one of its most intense operational stretches. 

“I’m especially excited to support the startup ecosystem forming around Claude,” she wrote, adding that the time between having an idea and shipping a product has never been shorter for a new generation of builders.

Her arrival follows Anthropic’s annual recurring revenue surging from $9 billion at the start of 2026 to $30 billion, alongside a San Francisco federal court blocking the Pentagon’s supply chain risk designation against the firm. 

The company has also come under increased attention from regulators and financial institutions over its latest AI model, reflecting broader Wall Street Anthropic AI scrutiny concerns around advanced AI systems and their rapid adoption.

Crypto giants Coinbase and Binance are separately pursuing access to Mythos through Anthropic Anthropic Mythos AI access through Anthropic’s Project Glasswing defense initiative, which enlists Amazon, Apple, Google, and NVIDIA to strengthen core software globally.

Wolf invited founders and builders working with Claude to contact her directly, keeping her DMs wide open to new collaborations and partnerships.