In the 13 years of its existence, Bitcoin has risen from obscurity to $1 trillion highs, settling over $60 trillion in total transfer volume along the way. Despite these feats, Bitcoin’s decentralized design limits it to a mere 7 transactions Read More
Nomad Bridge incident analysis
Tl;dr: Building a better crypto ecosystem means building a better, more equitable future for us all. That’s why we are investing in the larger community to make sure anyone who wants to participate in the crypto economy can do so Read More
Coinbase selected by BlackRock; provide Aladdin clients access to crypto trading and custody via…
Tl;dr: Coinbase and BlackRock to create new access points for institutional crypto adoption by connecting Coinbase Prime and Aladdin By Brett Tejpaul, Head of Coinbase Institutional and Greg Tusar, Vice President, Institutional Product Over the past few years, Coinbase has Read More
Coinbase Prime grows its staking offering with ETH
Tl:dr: We’re launching Ethereum staking to US domestic institutional clients on Coinbase Prime. Using our industry-leading cold storage, clients can now generate yield by staking ETH. By Aaron Schnarch, Vice President of Product, Custody Fully-integrated staking on Coinbase Prime Coinbase Read More
Introducing Coinbase Security Prompt — a safer and easier way of signing into Coinbase
Siyu Liu, Senior Product Manager; Chetan Rane, Product Manager Tl;Dr: We are excited to introduce the Coinbase Security Prompt: a faster and safer way for our users to verify their identity & activities when interacting with the Coinbase ecosystem. At Read More
Security PSA: Search engine phishing
Tl;dr: Search engine phishing exploits the trust we have in search engines and the convenience of searching for something rather than remembering the domain. The following piece outlines what search engine phishing attacks may look like and how Coinbase users Read More
Coinbase wins Best Prime Broker Award
by Brett Tejpaul, Head of Coinbase Institutional, and Elke Karskens, Head of EMEA Marketing We recently won the Best Prime Broker Award in Hedgeweek’s annual European Digital Assets Awards. This success not only underlines the strength of our platform and Read More
Coinbase does not list securities. End of story.
By Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer Tl;dr: Coinbase does not list securities on its platform. Period. We have said it before, but given today’s events, it bears repeating. Earlier today, following a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into a former Read More
The Crypto Securities Market is Waiting to be Unlocked. But First We Need Workable Rules.
TL;DR: Coinbase filed a petition asking the SEC to begin rulemaking on digital asset securities. The existing rules for securities just do not work for digital assets. Our petition calls on the SEC to develop a workable regulatory framework for Read More
Coinbase Ventures Q2 investment memo
Around the Block sheds light on key trends in crypto. Written by Connor Dempsey, sourced from the work and insights from the entire team at Coinbase Ventures & Corp Dev TLDR: Coinbase Ventures deal activity reflected the overall pace of Read More
Institutional Insights: Our Approach to Crypto Financing
Tl;dr: In recent weeks, some firms have struggled to remain solvent due to insufficient risk controls. See how Coinbase implements secure and comprehensive risk management practices that enable institutions to successfully navigate the cryptoeconomy. By Brett Tejpaul, Head of Coinbase Read More
Coinbase secures Crypto Asset Service Provider approval in Italy 🇮🇹
Coinbase secures Crypto Asset Service Provider approval in Italy 🇮🇹 Tl;Dr: By meeting the regulatory requirements, Coinbase will continue to offer crypto services in Italy, and has a clear path to bring new products and features to market in the Read More
Quantitative Crypto Insight: A systematic crypto trading strategy using perpetual futures
Tl;dr: Perpetuals futures are financial instruments that have become increasingly popular in the crypto space. Coinbase demonstrates a hypothetical simple delta neutral strategy which takes advantage of positively skewed funding rates in the perpetual futures market to achieve a high Read More
Operating efficiently at scale
By Brian Armstrong, CEO and Co-founder As companies scale, they usually slow down and become less efficient. It takes more dollars, more people and more time to get anything done. Coordination headwinds increase, vetocracies emerge, risk tolerance fades, and teams Read More
A research platform for the entire cryptoeconomy: Coinbase Prices is now Coinbase Explore
TL;DR — We’ve upgraded Coinbase Prices and rebranded it as Coinbase Explore to provide users with a single platform to research the entire cryptoeconomy The cryptoeconomy is about far more than buying and selling and assets. But as more people Read More
Coinbase Institute Research: Crypto Prices and Market Efficiency
By Cesare Fracassi, Chief Economist, Coinbase Institute TL;DR: How should we evaluate the recent highs and lows of crypto prices? In taking a market efficiency view, crypto prices are a reflection of the market’s assessment of the future prospects of Read More
Introducing our NFT Dapp Starter Kit for Developers
TL;DR: We’re providing developers with an open-source starter kit that can be used to kickstart dapp development for NFT minting sites. Happy building! By JM Cho, software engineer for Coinbase Wallet Last year, the NFT market experienced its best year Read More
Announcing the Relay VSCode extension
Tl;dr: Coinbase is introducing its innovative VSCode extension created in collaboration with the Relay team, for the Relay GraphQL client, which is available for developer use now. By Terence Bezman, Coinbase Senior Software Engineer In collaboration with the Relay team Read More
Coinbase Expands Staking Offerings to Include Solana
Tl;dr: Today, Coinbase is announcing an easy and secure way for eligible customers to earn staking rewards on Solana (SOL). By Thorsten Jaeckel, Senior Product Manager At Coinbase, we’re focused on offering more ways for customers to earn crypto rewards. Read More
Coinbase Commerce Updates: Faster Payments, No Fees, More Currency Options
Tl;dr: We’re announcing two big updates to our Commerce platform: instant, free payments from Coinbase users to Commerce merchants, and seven new cryptocurrencies that can be used for payments through Commerce. One of Coinbase’s goals is to become a platform Read More