Category : Coinbase

Upcoming story about Coinbase

An upcoming story about CoinbaseIn the spirit of transparency, we’re sharing an internal email that was sent to our employees earlier today:Tl;dr: The New York Times is planning to publish a negative story about Coinbase at some point in the next few...

Coinbase Pro disables margin trading

By Paul Grewal, Chief Legal OfficerIn response to new guidance from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, we are disabling our margin trading product.Customers currently using margin trading will not be able to place new margin trades starting 2p...

Optimizing React Native

by Nick Cherry, Staff Software EngineerOver the past eight months, Coinbase has been rewriting its Android app from scratch with React Native. Read about some of the performance challenges we encountered and overcame along the way.If you’re intereste...

Incident Postmortem: November 16th, 2020

by Drew Rothstein, Director of EngineeringOn November 16th, Coinbase experienced an outage that impacted both our web and mobile applications. We quickly suspected the root cause was based on an ongoing migration and started to remediate the issue. T...

Civic (CVC), Decentraland (MANA), and district0x (DNT), are now available on Coinbase

Starting today, Coinbase supports Civic (CVC), Decentraland (MANA), and district0x (DNT) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers can now buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store CVC, MANA, and DNT. CVC and MANA...

Fostering Trust Through Coinbase’s Growing Legal & Compliance Team

By Paul Grewal, Chief Legal OfficerOne of our key priorities at Coinbase is to be trusted as we create an open financial system for the world. This requires us to be world class at security, compliance, technology, customer support, design, and more....

Coinbase Card launches in the US

Buy a coffee with crypto and earn up to 4% back in rewards¹Starting today, customers in the US can join the waitlist for Coinbase Card, a Visa® debit card that allows crypto to be used for payments and purchases online and in-store as well as for ATM...

Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) is now available on Coinbase

Starting today, Coinbase supports Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers can now buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store WBTC. WBTC is available in all Coinbase-supported regions, with...

Coinbase Custody explores support for new digital assets

We are continuing to explore the addition of custody support for new assets for customers around the world.Coinbase Custody is one of the world’s largest and most trusted crypto custodians. Since its inception, it has focused on providing a highly se...

Transparency at Coinbase

By Paul Grewal, Chief Legal OfficerCoinbase believes that trust is built through transparency and honesty. As we continue on our journey to becoming the most trusted venue for anyone to interact with the cryptoeconomy, today we’re releasing a Transpa...

Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) is launching on Coinbase Pro

On Monday October 19, transfer WBTC into your Coinbase Pro account ahead of trading. Support for WBTC will be available in all Coinbase’s supported jurisdictions, with the exception of New York State. Transfers will open during business hours, Pacifi...

Coinbase Custody now supports Filecoin ($FIL)

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...

Trade crypto immediately with instant USD deposits

By Linda Xie, Product ManagerCrypto 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 betwee...

Introducing crypto purchases inside Coinbase Wallet

By Sid Coelho-Prabhu, Group Product ManagerAt 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 pr...

Easily Convert Crypto on Coinbase Commerce using Coinbase.com

By John Zettler, Senior Product ManagerAt 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 crypt...