Category : Coinbase

Coinbase USDC Bootstrap Fund invests in Uniswap and PoolTogether

By Nemil Dalal, Daniel Que, & Pete Kim2019 has been called The Year of Decentralized Finance (“DeFi”), with the money locked up into decentralized finance protocols skyrocketing. In 2020, these protocols are starting to provide global access to f...

Migrating our Tezos Bakery across the Atlantic with only 1 minute of downtime

By Luke YoungbloodIntroductionSince our launch in 2018, Coinbase Custody has been driving innovation on behalf of our clients, who increasingly want to participate in the networks that they have invested in. These new forms of network participation e...

On Crypto Markets and Bitcoin’s Value Proposition

Coinbase Around the Block, sheds light on key issues in the crypto space. In this edition, we analyze recent market activity and Bitcoin’s Value Proposition.BTC and other crypto assets saw a ~50% price decline earlier this month on March 12, marking...

On the Recent Market Crash and Bitcoin’s Value Proposition

The role of crypto during these uncertain times

Watch Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speak to how Bitcoin was created for moments like thisOn March 26, Coinbase had its first ever fully remote Company All Hands. Watch Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong kick off the virtual meeting by talking about:Why cry...

Coinbase Custody COVID-19 Update

Given “shelter in place” orders issued around the U.S. as a result of COVID-19, we wanted to keep you updated on information about our response to this development as well as the security and accessibility of your assets over the next few weeks. To r...

How we’re supporting employees, customers and each other during COVID19

Coinbase is operating important infrastructure for the economy during these trying times. I wanted to share a few updates on how we are keeping employees safe and ensuring that we are serving our customers.We’ve published our internal planning and co...

Bitcoin’s Uncoupling from “Uncorrelated”

By Mike Co and Shawn DejbakhshThis piece is one in a series designed to educate Coinbase customers on basic market analysis.TLDR: Although Bitcoin has recently sold off alongside the S&P 500, based on historical data, recent positive correlation...

USDC surpasses $600 million in market capitalization and MakerDAO adopts USDC as collateral

By Amy LuoUSDC is a fully collateralized US dollar stablecoin, created by the CENTRE Consortium, an open source technology project co-founded by Coinbase and Circle. Since its launch in 2018, USDC has seen its market share steadily climb to become th...

You can now use Coinbase Card with Google Pay

Android users can now add Coinbase Card, a Visa debit card funded by crypto, directly to their Google Pay wallets. With the launch of Google Pay, Coinbase now becomes the first company to enable users to make mobile payments powered by their crypto b...

Around the Block: Analysis on the bZx Attack, DeFi Vulnerabilities, The State of Debit Cards in…

Around the Block: Analysis on the bZx Attack, DeFi Vulnerabilities, The State of Debit Cards in Crypto, and Other Crypto NewsCoinbase Around the Block sheds light on key issues in the crypto space. In this edition, we analyze the bZx attack, uncover...

Coinbase rolls out Bitcoin transaction batching

By Eli Haims, Product ManagerToday we’re launching Bitcoin transaction batching, a new feature that significantly reduces the load that Coinbase puts on the Bitcoin blockchain and may save users more than 50% on network fees.Historically, every time...

Coinbase Custody launches a redesigned product experience

Now available to all clients, this update makes Coinbase Custody simpler and easier to use.By Allen Osgood, product manager, Coinbase CustodyIt’s been a busy month at Coinbase Custody. This week we launched a completely refreshed product experience w...

Coinbase planning and response to COVID-2019

We’ve made our latest coronavirus planning materials available below and will be updating it regularly to give our customers, other global businesses, and the broader crypto community as much information as we can to help with decision-making.Notes:W...

Onboarding thousands of users with React Native

A retrospective for companies considering React NativeSource: engineering.fb.comBy Ian Ownbey, Nick Cherry, and Jacob ThorntonIn mid-2019, we committed to rewriting Coinbase’s core mobile sign-up with React Native. This decision was motivated by a fe...