A guide to the projects and companies working to make web3 development as easy as web2 Around the Block, from Coinbase Ventures sheds light on key trends in crypto. Written by Jonathan King, Connor Dempsey, & Hoolie Tejwani Special thanks to Mike Armstrong, Aaron Henshaw, Michael Atassi, Steven Willinger, and Shan Aggarwal for helping to...Read More
By Harry Tormey Since its founding in 2012, Coinbase has grown to offer a diverse range of products built with a variety of different technologies. Some of these products are targeted at highly sophisticated users and some are targeted at individuals who are new to cryptocurrency. As our products and business has evolved, so too...Read More
How to pass the most trusted cryptocurrency platform’s security guidelines for ERC-20 tokens By Nadir Akhtar TL;DR: The ERC-20 standard has become a popular way to create digital assets and assign protocol voting rights on the Ethereum blockchain. When evaluating an ERC-20 token for listing, Coinbase performs a security assessment looking primarily for these four...Read More
By Pete Kim At Coinbase, our mission is to build an open financial system. We strongly believe that increasing economic freedom will make the world a better place. Decentralized Finance, or DeFi for short — an open, borderless, and programmable version of finance — is an inseparable part of that vision. Smart Contracts DeFi is...Read More
By Michael de Hoog Coinbase was launched 8 years ago as a Ruby on Rails app using MongoDB as its primary data store. Today, the primary paved-road language at Coinbase is Golang, but we continue to run and maintain the original Rails monolith, deployed at large scale with data stored across many MongoDB clusters. This blog...Read More
How Coinbase is using a monorepo to provide developers with world-class tooling, security, and reliability By Luke Demi Over the past year, the developer productivity team at Coinbase has been focused on delivering a Bazel monorepo to enable engineers to more easily collaborate across the company and position the company on industry standard tooling. Today, our Bazel...Read More
