On Friday, September 4, transfer UMA into your Coinbase Pro account ahead of trading. Support for UMA 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
The leading American exchange Coinbase announced today a renewal of its board of directors, incorporating two prominent experts from the technology industry. In an official announcement posted on Coinbase’s blog, Brian Armstrong, the company’s CEO and co-founder explained that they had made two significant replacements to their board of directors. The Hello’s First on the...Read More
By Brian Armstrong, CEO and Co-Founder As Coinbase continues on its path to growing the cryptoeconomy and creating an open financial system for the world, we’ll look to leaders and experts from a range of fields to help guide us. Of primary importance is our Board of Directors. We look to our Board members and...Read More
Neo, a public blockchain and smart contracts platform announced that it has integrated with the Coinbase-led open-source project Rosetta. Neo integrates with #Rosetta, an open-source project led by Coinbase. We look forward to work together with Rosetta improving protocol integration processes in order to build the next-gen Internet.https://t.co/Nl8nF3OW4G — Neo Smart Economy (@Neo_Blockchain) August 28,...Read More
Centre Consortium members Circle and Coinbase have just launched an upgraded version of their popular USDC dollar-pegged stablecoin. Going live on August 27, USDC 2.0 aims to tackle high gas fees by allowing developers to delegate it to other wallets or take fees in USDC instead. Removing ETH From The Picture The official announcement explained...Read More
Circle, a peer-to-peer technology that enables payments in cryptocurrency and San Fransisco based exchange Coinbase announced that they have upgraded the USDC stablecoin protocol and its smart contract. Both Circle and Coinbase are members of the Centre Consortium that manages USDC. Together, the firms aimed to make the payment process easy for people who use...Read More
On Monday, August 31, transfer CELO into your Coinbase Pro account ahead of trading. Support for CELO will be available in all Coinbase’s supported jurisdictions. Per previous launches, transfers will open during business hours, Pacific time. One of the most common requests we receive from customers is to be able to trade more assets on...Read More
Today, we’re sharing the next phase of our European journey by announcing new leadership for our European operations. Marcus Hughes, who currently serves as General Counsel for our international operations, has stepped into the role of General Manager for Europe. In this role, he will be responsible for continuing to scale our operations across Europe,...Read More
By Don Yu Coinbase was not targeted by any of the attack transactions and lost no funds At 10:57 PM PST 7/31/2020, Ethereum Classic (ETC) was 51% attacked resulting in ~800,000 ETC (~$5.8 million) of double spend transactions. At 8:15PM PST 8/5/2020, Ethereum Classic was 51% attacked again resulting in ~460,000 ETC (~$3.2 million) of...Read More
Starting today, Coinbase supports Numeraire (NMR) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers can now buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store NMR. NMR is available in all Coinbase-supported regions with the exception of New York State. NMR trading is also supported on Coinbase Pro. Numeraire (NMR) Numeraire (NMR) is...Read More
By Dan Frank At Coinbase we pride ourselves in Efficient Execution. In software engineering, a common manifestation of this principle is DRY — don’t repeat yourself. For example, we might consolidate logic into a single service or library. But I’m a Data Scientist on our Data Team where our core role is to help derive...Read More
Starting today, Coinbase supports Band Protocol (BAND) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Please note, we will only support ERC-20 BAND tokens at this time. Coinbase customers can now buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store BAND. BAND is available in all Coinbase-supported regions with the exception of New York State....Read More
Coinbase customers in the US will have the opportunity to receive cash loans against their Bitcoin holdings. If approved, the company’s clients might get their loans in two to three days. The Waiting List As per an official recent announcement, Coinbase has set a specially designated waiting list for their customers, who might like to...Read More
By Thorsten Jaeckel, Product Manager Coinbase was created as a reliable, trusted, and safe bridge for people to buy and sell cryptocurrency, and we remain committed to providing the best crypto investing experience for our customers. We now offer easy investing tools for dollar cost averaging, market stats for tradable assets, and support 24 assets...Read More
On Monday, August 17, transfer NMR into your Coinbase Pro account ahead of trading. Support for NMR 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
By Brian Armstrong, CEO and Co-Founder As a company of builders, few things are more important than finding experienced, passionate engineers that can help guide Coinbase and our employees through the next phase of company growth. That’s why I’m excited to share today that Manish Gupta is joining Coinbase as our new EVP of Engineering....Read More
The last few weeks have been good for Bitcoin, and by extension, the cryptocurrency space. Sure, the world’s largest cryptocurrency finally surged on the charts to give much-needed relief to its investors, but that wasn’t all. With every passing day, cryptocurrencies are being legitimized as an “asset class,” and mainstream institutions are finally playing a...Read More
On Monday, August 10, transfer BAND into your Coinbase Pro account ahead of trading. Support for BAND 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
By Surojit Chatterjee, Chief Product Officer Today we are announcing that Greg Tusar is joining Coinbase as VP of Institutional Products. Greg joins us as part of our recently announced acquisition of Tagomi, a company he co-founded and where he went on to serve as chief technology officer. Greg brings more than three decades of...Read More
The veteran US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is looking into adding 19 new digital assets onto its platform. Interestingly, the majority of the coins are representatives of the ongoing DeFi trend. Coinbase Considers 19 New Coins The largest digital asset exchange based in the US announced yesterday that it’s currently evaluating 19 new additions to its...Read More
At Coinbase, we want to offer more ways for customers to earn rewards with their crypto. Last year, for example, we began offering stablecoin rewards to US customers for every USD Coin (USDC) held on Coinbase. We also launched Dai on Coinbase Earn, where customers can earn crypto by watching videos and taking quizzes about...Read More
Yesterday, Coinbase announced that it was expanding its Learn platform with the addition of Kyber Network tokens. The incentive allows exchange customers to watch videos in exchange for a small handful of the KNC tokens worth a couple of dollars. Starting today, Coinbase customers can start earning Kyber (KNC) by watching lessons and completing quizzes...Read More
Anthony Ghosn, the son of former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, revealed to prosecutors that he paid about $500,000 in cryptocurrency to one of the two men who helped Carlos break free from Japan. Carlos Ghosn’s Son Transferred Half a Million in Cryptocurrency Through Coinbase According to Reuters, US prosecutors said in a court filing that...Read More
According to a recent report, three US-based cryptocurrency exchanges, namely Gemini, Coinbase, and Kraken, remain the platforms with the highest-ranking during Q2 2020. The paper also added that only 15% of exchanges claimed that they store more than 95% of their digital asset holdings in cold wallets. Top-Rated Cryptocurrency Exchanges In its July report analyzing...Read More
The US government is still working on regulations on third-party reporting for cryptocurrency trades. The transactions will be reported by crypto exchanges in accordance with Section 6045 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), a Treasury attorney said. Cryptocurrency Exchanges Will Share Client Data as Stipulated in Section 6045 Erika Nijenhuis, senior counsel at the US...Read More
With a bit of delay following the Twitter hack, Bitcoin finally sees a slight movement downwards to $9,100. Interestingly, this time the three major US stock market indexes decrease in value with a similar percentage. The situation appears much more favorable in the low-cap altcoin market, as massive gainers include Aurora, Ampleforth, and Algorand. Bitcoin...Read More
Starting today, Coinbase supports Algorand (ALGO) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers can now buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store ALGO. ALGO is available in all Coinbase-supported regions. Algorand (ALGO) Founded by cryptographer and Turing award winner Silvio Micali, Algorand aims to solve some of the technical barriers...Read More
An ongoing scam is being promoted on Twitter through some of the biggest accounts of major cryptocurrency companies and proponents. These include the world’s leading exchange, Binance, the US-based exchange Coinbase, as well as the account of one of the best-known Bitcoin proponents, AngeloBTC, and even Winklevoss’ Gemini. Ongoing Crypto Scam In the past few...Read More
On Tuesday, July 21, Coinbase Pro will add support for new order books for Algorand (ALGO), Chainlink (LINK), XRP (XRP) Tezos (XTZ). The new pairs will be: ALGO-EUR, ALGO-GBP, LINK-EUR, LINK-GBP, XRP-GBP and XTZ-EUR, XTZ-GBP. These order books will be available in Coinbase’s supported jurisdictions outside of the United States, where relevant payment methods are...Read More
The leading US-based cryptocurrency exchange and one of the biggest companies in the industry, Coinbase, reportedly prepares for an official stock market listing. Coinbase Prepares for Stock Market Listing According to a report filed by Reuters minutes ago, the leading US-based cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, has started making preparations for a stock market listing. Should the...Read More
