Category : Coinbase

Welcome Alesia Haas, Coinbase Chief Financial Officer

Today, we’re very excited to announce that Alesia Haas will join Coinbase as the company’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In her role at Coinbase, Alesia will allow us to accelerate our goal of building a world-class financial team that scales with t...

Welcome Balaji Srinivasan, Coinbase’s new Chief Technology Officer

Today, I’m thrilled to announce that Coinbase has acquired Earn.com, and as part of the acquisition, Earn’s co-founder and CEO, Balaji Srinivasan, will join Coinbase as the company’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO).Balaji has become one of the m...

Welcome Rachael Horwitz, Coinbase Vice President of Communications

Coinbase is currently experiencing a period of profound growth. This growth and increased awareness and adoption of cryptocurrency creates a huge opportunity for Coinbase. In order to take full advantage of that opportunity we are working quickly to...

Introducing Coinbase Ventures

Here at Coinbase, we’re committed to creating an open financial system for the world. We’re hard at work building our own set of products. And we’re also eagerly rooting for the best and brightest minds in the crypto space, both in and outside of Coi...

Adding Support for Bitcoin Forks to Coinbase

We’re excited to announce our intention to support the withdrawal of Bitcoin Forks across Coinbase products in the coming months. We are announcing this both internally and to the public as consistent with our process for adding new assets.This chang...

Product Update — Sign-Up and Account Recovery

One of our goals is to make it as easy as possible for you to invest as much as you want on Coinbase without limits getting in the way. Over the next few months we will be making changes to our product to make that possible. Last week we made the fir...

Portfolio Balance and Multisig Vaults — Product Update

Over the next month, we will be making a number of significant improvements to our product experience. We started with overhauling our buy and sell flows, and will soon begin rolling out Portfolio Balance and changes to our limits structure. As alway...

Multisig vaults on Coinbase

We wanted to give our customers an update about multisig vaults on Coinbase.Multisig vaults were originally introduced as a way for customers to manage their private keys and control their own security while still using the Coinbase interface. Howeve...

Our process for adding new assets to Coinbase & GDAX (March 2018 update)

We’ve received feedback from customers that they want more assets on Coinbase. Building on our previous post, we want to share additional information about how we manage the process of adding new assets to our platform. By sharing this information, w...

How Coinbase approaches forked and airdropped assets

We wanted to give our customers an update on how we approach digital currency forks and airdrops. We’ve previously posted about forks here and here. You can read more about what a digital currency fork is here.We operate by the principle that our cus...

Introducing the Coinbase Protocol Team

Our industry has come a long way since Satoshi’s white-paper. Bitcoin has become a household name and an increasing percentage of the world’s population has access to cryptocurrencies. Fundamental breakthroughs in cryptography, permissionless consens...

Product Update — Buy/Sell, Taxes and Account Statements

As always, thanks for all of your feedback. Below are a few exciting updates / changes.Improving the buy and sell experienceWe’ve simplified the buy / sell experience to make it easier to place new trades and manage your funds. Back in October, we re...

Major strides in Europe: Coinbase is the First Crypto Exchange to Obtain a UK Bank Account

In our last update, we committed to making major strides in order to serve our European customers. Today we’re excited to share two updates — the first is that Coinbase has been granted an e-money license by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...

Coinbase’s written testimony for the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Investment

A clear regulatory environment that fosters innovation while protecting investors is an important step in digital currency’s evolution as a technology. Regulatory clarity will encourage and accelerate entrepreneurial activity in digital currency, ult...

New tax tools on Coinbase

Disclaimer: Coinbase is not authorized to give tax advice. For specific questions we strongly recommend speaking with a tax professional.As a reminder, gains on digital currency sales and exchanges are taxable in the US. For reference, here are the I...