Category : Coinbase

Introducing DAI, the first stablecoin on Coinbase Card

By JD Millwood, Head of Growth MarketingToday, we launched full support for DAI — the first stablecoin available on Coinbase Card.Paying with a stablecoin brings something new to the Coinbase Card experience and using a cryptocurrency with stable pur...

More impact, more privacy: the benefits of donating (and accepting) crypto

In December 2017, an anonymous person named “Pine” created the Pineapple Fund as “an experiment in philanthropy with cryptocurrency.” Pine donated $55 million worth of bitcoin to 60 different charitable organizations focused on everything from the en...

Coinbase at AWS re:Invent 2019

By Drew RothsteinPhoto by John Such on UnsplashThe AWS re:Invent conference is coming to Las Vegas the week of December 2–6, and Coinbase is representing! Our incredible Product and Engineering team members will be speaking about site reliability, sc...

Coinbase UK adds four additional assets: XTZ, DAI, EOS and LINK

Coinbase UK customers can now enjoy full support for XTZ, DAI, EOS and LINK granting customers access to buy, sell, and trade even more assets through a GBP wallet, funded by a GBP bank account or credit/debit card. This follows the complete reinstat...

Coinbase and Coinbase Pro plan to support multi-collateral DAI

On November 18th, Maker will be launching the multi-collateral DAI stablecoin, upgrading their current single-collateral DAI.Multi-collateral DAI introduces changes to the existing DAI stablecoin. In single collateral DAI (the current form of DAI), o...

Spend XRP, XLM, and more on Coinbase Card

By JD Millwood, Head of Growth MarketingCoinbase Card now supports 5 new assets, as well as 10 new countriesToday is a big day for Coinbase Card. Not only are we celebrating the launch of the card in 10 new countries — bringing the grand total to 29 ...

Intro to Smart Contracts

By Julia ChouThis post is a blog version of a workshop presented at the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration, the world’s largest gathering of women in technology. Coinbase is committed to building a future that promotes economic freedom and financial inclu...

EOS enters congestion mode due to EIDOS airdrop

by Don Yu, Patrick O’Grady, Peter KacherginskyWhat’s going on with EOS?On November 1st 2019, Coinbase began seeing degraded performance for EOS transactions. Coinbase did not have enough staked CPU to successfully have its EOS transactions processed...

Announcing new confirmation requirements

Coinbase is changing the number of confirmation requirements we require for four assets on the platform. We expect this change to both improve customer experience and security posture.What’s changedWe changed the confirmation requirements for Bitcoin...

How Coinbase views proof of work security

Coinbase recently changed the confirmation requirement of four different assets, including reducing Bitcoin confirmation requirement from six confirmations to three. This post describes our views concerning proof of work security that informed our de...

Introducing Staking Rewards on Coinbase

Coinbase is now offering an easy, secure way to earn staking rewards on TezosBy Rhea Kaw, Product ManagerAt Coinbase, we’re focused on offering more ways for customers to earn rewards by holding crypto. Today, we’re announcing staking rewards on ever...

Coinbase is a product led company

There is a lot of variety in how companies are run. Some companies have design, legal, engineering, or ops act as final decision makers on new product features. Some companies have a single decision maker while others opt for committees or “two in a...

Charting the course of Bitcoin, 11 years and counting

Eleven years ago today, the Bitcoin white paper was published, forever changing technology, finance, and our relationship with money.As with other technologies, money has gone through many upgrades over the years. It’s evolved from trading seashells...

The Biggest Challenge of the Consumer Web — and How Crypto is Poised to Solve It

The Biggest Challenge of the Consumer Web — and How Crypto is Poised to Solve ItIntroducing Around the Block, a new blog from Coinbase that aims to provide context on the constantly evolving cryptocurrency landscape through explanations of new protoc...

How the Coinbase Security team deployed CTFd to Power our First Capture the Flag contest at Defcon…

How the Coinbase Security team deployed CTFd to Power our First Capture the Flag contest at Defcon 27By Nishil Shah and Peter KacherginskyWe recently ran Coinbase’s first Capture the Flag (CTF) competition called Capture the Coin. As part of running...