Category : Coinbase

Paul Grewal, Former US Magistrate Judge, Joins Coinbase as Chief Legal Officer

By Emilie Choi, Chief Operating OfficerWe’re proud to announce today that Paul Grewal is joining Coinbase as our Chief Legal Officer. The opportunity for crypto has never been greater, which only highlights the need to continue investing in world-cla...

Coinbase Custody selected by 21Shares for Bitcoin ETP

Today we’re proud to announce that 21Shares AG has chosen Coinbase Custody to store its digital assets for its Bitcoin ETP. 21Shares AG is listing its 21Shares Bitcoin ETP (ISIN: CH0454664001 — WKN A2T64E) on the Deutsche Börse’s Xetra electronic ven...

Compound (COMP) is now available on Coinbase Earn

Earn COMP while learning how to borrow crypto and earn interest with CompoundCoinbase’s mission is to create an open financial system, where anyone in the world can participate on equal terms from their computer or smartphone. To bring this vision to...

Compound (COMP) is now available on Coinbase

Starting today, Coinbase supports Compound (COMP) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers can now buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store COMP. COMP will be available for customers in all Coinbase-supported re...

Scaling connections with Ruby and MongoDB

By Michael de HoogCoinbase 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, deploye...

Compound (COMP) is launching on Coinbase Pro

On Tuesday, June 23, COMP began trading on Coinbase Pro.On Monday, June 22, we began accepting inbound transfers of COMP to Coinbase Pro. Trading began the following day, June 23.Once sufficient supply of COMP is established on the platform, trading...

Introducing Rosetta: Build once. Integrate your blockchain everywhere.

By Surojit Chatterjee, Chief Product OfficerAt Coinbase, we believe a thriving and open ecosystem is necessary for the promise of crypto to be realized, ultimately leading to our vision of more economic freedom for the world. As early as 2016, the Co...

Bootstrapping the Coinbase Monorepo

How Coinbase is using a monorepo to provide developers with world-class tooling, security, and reliabilityBy Luke DemiOver the past year, the developer productivity team at Coinbase has been focused on delivering a Bazel monorepo to enable engineers...

Maker (MKR) is now available on Coinbase

Starting today, Coinbase supports Maker (MKR) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers can now buy, sell, convert, send, receive, or store MKR. MKR will be available in all Coinbase-supported regions, with the exce...

Coinbase continues to explore support for new digital assets

We are continuing to explore the addition of new assets for customers around the world.Coinbase’s goal is to offer support for all assets that meet our technical standards and which comply with applicable laws. Over time we expect our customers aroun...

Container technologies at Coinbase

Why Kubernetes is not part of our stackBy Drew Rothstein, Director of EngineeringTLDR: Container orchestration platforms are complex and amazing technologies, helping some businesses and teams solve a whole suite of problems. What’s commonly overlook...

Incident Post Mortem: June 1, 2020

By Michael de HoogOn June 1st, Coinbase experienced an outage that impacted coinbase.com, pro.coinbase.com, and our mobile applications. Trading through the API , which accounts for the majority of trading volume, remained functional throughout this...

Maker (MKR) is launching on Coinbase Pro

On Tuesday, June 9, MKR began trading on Coinbase Pro.On Monday, June 8, we began accepting inbound transfers of MKR to Coinbase Pro. Trading began at 9AM Pacific Time (PT) the next day Tuesday June 9.Once sufficient supply of MKR is established on t...

Coinbase launches staking rewards for customers in the UK, France, Spain and The Netherlands

By Rhea Kaw, Product ManagerAt Coinbase, we’re focused on offering more ways for customers to earn rewards by holding crypto. Following our recent launch of Tezos staking rewards for our US customers, we’re now rolling out this feature for Coinbase u...

Making ‘money moves’ on Coinbase

You can now top up your balance as you are sending cryptoBy Paul Katsen, Product ManagerToday we’re announcing three improvements to help customers send crypto more easily, confidently, and efficiently.Easily top up your balance as you sendIf you don...