Category : Coinbase

Incident Post Mortem: January 29, 2021

By Jordan SitkinBetween 4:25am and 9:31am PST on Friday, January 29, api.coinbase.com had an outage. During this time, many users experienced errors while attempting to use the Coinbase app and crypto buying, selling and trading features were intermi...

Coinbase announces proposed direct listing

Coinbase Global, Inc. today announced its intent to become a publicly-traded company pursuant to a proposed direct listing of its Class A common stock. Such proposed listing is expected to be pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 with the...

Coinbase requests rulemaking pause from FinCEN following Biden White House guidance to agencies

This letter was shared with Kenneth Blanco, Director, FinCEN on Jan. 25th, 2021. It is available to download here.January 25, 2021Via email to [email protected] and [email protected] A. BlancoDirector, Financial Crimes Enforcement Networ...

How Coinbase ran its first 100+ person online “offsite”

How Coinbase is building real connections in a remote-first worldBy Jesse Pollak, Head of Engineering, ConsumerAt Coinbase, we’ve shared our response to COVID-19 and our decision to go fully remote-first, even after quarantining ends. There’s a lot t...

Coinbase to acquire leading blockchain infrastructure platform, Bison Trails

The acquisition will enable Bison Trails to accelerate its mission to provide easy-to-use blockchain infrastructure that strengthens the entire crypto ecosystem.Bison Trails will serve as a foundational element within Coinbase’s ecosystem suite of pr...

Committing to better customer service during this time of heightened interest in the cryptoeconomy

Committing to a better customer experience during this time of heightened interest in the cryptoeconomyFirst things first: We will never ask you to create test accounts on other platforms or provide your ID or banking information over email or social...

Introducing Coinbase Asset Hub, our open invitation to asset issuers

By Surojit Chatterjee, Chief Product OfficerCryptocurrency’s promise is to make money and payments universally accessible — to anyone, no matter where they are in the world. Creating an open financial system relies on us working together with the bui...

Addressing recent customer experience issues for some UK and EU users

As the most trusted brand in the crypto ecosystem, customer support is hugely important to us. But in recent weeks, our customer service has not been at the levels we expect for ourselves. We wanted to take the chance to both apologise and explain wh...

Full Incident Post Mortem: January 6–7, 2021

Incident Post Mortem: January 6–7, 2021*This article has been updated with a full post mortem.Last week, on January 6th and 7th, Coinbase experienced a critical outage which impacted the APIs used to serve coinbase.com and our mobile apps. Trading on...

Brief Incident Post Mortem: January 6–7, 2021

Payment services in Bazel monorepo

How to successfully migrate a critical microservice into monorepoBy Shalini OrugantiTL;DR: Bazel monorepo is a Engineering-wide initiative at Coinbase. Our Payments is one of the first teams to migrate a critical Ruby on Rails service for a major EU/...

Hedge funds continue to look to Coinbase for innovative portfolio solutions

Coinbase was selected as a full service partner and custodian by One River Asset ManagementRead more here about One River’s historic digital asset allocation and the fund’s journey to diversifying its portfolio.To read One River’s The Case For Digita...

Make your voice heard — Share your thoughts on the new proposed crypto rules directly with the U.S.

Make your voice heard — Share your thoughts on the new proposed crypto rules directly with the U.S. Department of TreasuryBy Brian Armstrong, CEO and Co-FounderThe U.S. Department of Treasury is proposing onerous new regulations that will drastically...

Coinbase is committed to fair and equitable compensation for every employee

By L.J. Brock, Chief People OfficerIn the spirit of transparency, I’m sharing an internal email that was sent to our employees earlier today:Hi all,In light of today’s New York Times story, I wanted to share some thoughts on the journey we’ve taken a...

Coinbase will suspend trading in XRP on January 19

In light of the SEC’s recent action against Ripple Labs, Inc., Coinbase plans to suspend trading in XRP on Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 10 AM PST.By Paul Grewal, Chief Legal OfficerIn light of the SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple Labs, Inc, we have made...