By Manish Gupta, EVP of Engineering As part of our Crypto Community Fund, Coinbase plans to sponsor at least two Bitcoin developers, who contribute directly to the Bitcoin Core codebase or closely associated Bitcoin projects. We are beginning our search for grant recipients starting today. We believe helping to connect and grow the cryptoeconomy is...Read More
Coinbase Custody now supports Filecoin (FIL). As announced in April, we are proud to continue adding support for the assets our clients care about. Adding at-launch support for Filecoin is another step toward achieving Coinbase’s mission to create an open financial system for the world. Filecoin is a decentralized storage network and marketplace designed to...Read More
Serena Ventures, the VC firm of one of the most successful tennis players Serena Williams, has quietly removed the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase from its firm portfolio list. The question remains if this development is strongly related to the apolitical approach taken by the US-based digital asset platform. Serena Ventures Removes Coinbase Years after launching Serena...Read More
By Linda Xie, Product Manager Crypto markets move quickly and the right moment to buy is often fleeting. Coinbase Pro is committed to offering the best, and fastest, crypto trading experience for our customers. Part of that is removing friction between the intent to trade and the order being executed. Starting today, US customers will...Read More
By Sid Coelho-Prabhu, Group Product Manager At Coinbase, we believe growing the cryptoeconomy is a key step to building an open financial system for the world. One of the ways we do this is by supporting new decentralized app (dapp) ecosystems with products like Coinbase Wallet (or simply “Wallet”), our self-custody crypto wallet app. Starting...Read More
By John Zettler, Senior Product Manager At Coinbase, our mission is to create an open financial system for the world. One of the ways we will achieve this is by helping connect as many participants in the cryptoeconomy as possible. Connecting the cryptoeconomy will enable our customers to do more with their crypto, whether it...Read More
About 5% (or 60) employees of Coinbase have taken advantage of the “generous exit package” the exchange offered to anyone who disagreed with the company politics. According to the recent update shared by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, the company executives “could have done a better job” in clarifying how the apolitical culture would work. This...Read More
Leading crypto exchange, Coinbase had told its employees that they could accept the “exit package” and leave the company if they were uncomfortable with Coinbase’s “apolitical” stand. Chief Executive Officer of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, announced today in a blog that, 60 people or “about 5% of employees” have opted to leave the company. He also...Read More
Starting today, Coinbase supports Balancer (BAL) and Ren (REN) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers can now buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store BAL and REN. BAL is available in all Coinbase-supported regions, with the exception of New York State. REN is available in all Coinbase-supported regions, with...Read More
Coinbase Around the Block sheds light on key issues in the crypto space. In this edition, Justin Mart explores the dawn of DeFi protocol wars as well as other notable news in the space. To participate in the emerging cryptoeconomy, sign up for Coinbase today. A war is brewing on the blockchain Blockchain-based applications are...Read More
By: Eddie Lo, Product Manager One of the defining characteristics of crypto is that it can be transacted instantly, anywhere, anytime. However, when customers want to sell their crypto assets and withdraw cash from their accounts, the traditional banking system can make the process take up to several days. Starting today, Coinbase offers instant withdrawals...Read More
Today October 1, transfer BAL and REN into your Coinbase Pro account ahead of trading. Support for BAL and REN will be available in all Coinbase’s supported jurisdictions, with the exception of New York State and the U.K.. Transfers are now open. One of the most common requests we receive from customers is to be...Read More
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has openly criticized Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong following a recent controversial post urging employees of the exchange to steer clear from political discussions. Dorsey, however, believes that the whole purpose of the cryptocurrency field is social activism. Armstrong Highlights The Coinbase Core Mission In a post shared over the weekend, Armstrong...Read More
Popular San Francisco-based crypto-exchange, Coinbase, announced today that eligible users can now earn 5% APY on their Cosmos (ATOM) held on the platform, according to a press release shared with AMBCrypto. The announcement follows the launch of staking rewards for Tezos, which were made available to customers in the U.S, U.K, France, Spain and The...Read More
By Rhea Kaw, Product Manager Starting today, eligible customers can easily start earning 5% APY on their Cosmos (ATOM) held on Coinbase. Cosmos Staking Rewards is now available in the US, UK, France, Spain, Netherlands, and Belgium. Customers can securely keep their assets on Coinbase and instantly trade or withdraw their holdings and rewards when...Read More
By Surojit Chatterjee, Chief Product Officer In order to scale our business and fulfill our vision of increasing economic freedom in the world, we need the ability to do more with our resources. That’s why we’re creating a new Platforms team across our Product and Engineering orgs, and have hired two exceptional leaders for this...Read More
By Patrick O’Grady In June, we launched Rosetta as an open-source specification that makes integrating with blockchains simpler, faster, and more reliable. There are now 20+ blockchain projects working on a Rosetta implementation (Near, Cardano, Celo, Coda, Neo, Tron, Handshake, Oasis, Cosmos, Decred, Filecoin, Ontology, Sia, Zilliqa, Digibyte, Harmony, Kadena, Nervos, and Blockstack), five in-progress...Read More
Starting today, Coinbase supports Uniswap (UNI) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers can now buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store UNI. UNI is available in all Coinbase-supported regions, with the exception of New York State. Uniswap (UNI) Uniswap (UNI) is a token used for governance actions in the...Read More
At Coinbase, we believe that the best people to help us create the future of finance are the ones who will be the most affected: young people like our college Crypterns. Whether it is a remote or an in-person crypternship experience, our Coinbase interns develop & ship high-priority projects over the course of their 12–16...Read More
Starting today, Coinbase supports Loopring (LRC) and yearn.finance (YFI) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers can now buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store LRC and YFI. LRC and YFI are available in all Coinbase-supported regions, with the exception of New York State. Loopring (LRC) Loopring (LRC) is an...Read More
Uniswap’s UNI token just released on the Ethereum main net. Soon after, Coinbase Pro and Binance announced its listing on their platforms. UNI’s market price soared through the roof (to the tune of 300 percent) post the news. Coinbase Pro Announces Listing For Uniswap’s UNI Token According to a blog article, US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase...Read More
Starting immediately, transfer UNI into your Coinbase Pro account ahead of trading. Support for UNI will be available in all Coinbase’s supported jurisdictions, with the exception of New York State. One of the most common requests we receive from customers is to be able to trade more assets on our platform. Per the terms of...Read More
By Raj Jain, Head of Stablecoin USD Coin, the world’s leading fully-backed, regulated stablecoin, recently reached $2 billion in market cap. To celebrate this major milestone, we’re issuing a Request for Startups. Join us in creating an open financial system with greater access and inclusion for all. Just two months ago, in July, USD Coin...Read More
By Surojit Chatterjee, Chief Product Officer Some people say you should measure time in a startup in terms of dog years — every year is like seven normal years. By that measure, I’ve already spent in Coinbase almost as much time I spent at my last role at Google. And it has been a crazy...Read More
YFI took the crypto world by storm last month when it did the unthinkable and surged higher than Bitcoin’s price at the time. Since its launch in mid-August, the DeFi token pumped monumentally to top out at around $39,000. It is a prime example of demand through scarcity as the big draw for this asset...Read More
On Monday, September 14, transfer YFI into your Coinbase Pro account ahead of trading. Support for YFI will be available in all Coinbase’s supported jurisdictions, with the exception of New York State. Per previous launches, transfers will open during business hours, Pacific time. One of the most common requests we receive from customers is to...Read More
Starting today, Coinbase supports UMA (UMA) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers can now buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store UMA. UMA is available in all Coinbase-supported regions, with the exception of New York State. UMA (UMA) UMA (UMA) is an Ethereum token that describes itself as “an...Read More
On Monday, September 14, transfer LRC into your Coinbase Pro account ahead of trading. Support for LRC will be available in all Coinbase’s supported jurisdictions, with the exception of New York State. Per previous launches, transfers will open during business hours, Pacific time. One of the most common requests we receive from customers is to...Read More
Starting today, Coinbase supports Celo (CGLD) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers can now buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store CGLD. CGLD is available in all Coinbase-supported regions. Coinbase is listing Celo under the CGLD ticker symbol. This is temporary and does not affect the asset or participation...Read More
After starting the month of September around the $12k mark, Bitcoin experienced a sharp correction today that crashed it to lows of nearly $1,160 in a matter of hours, erasing the gains of almost five days. Admittedly, a nervousness during the correction was to be expected as several traders adapted their strategies to this sharp...Read More
